$120-$150 million for the wages, not including expenses
Sony's execs aren't nearly this self-aware.
the $400m was without the buyout
It ran with 12-20 people for 4 of those years. I know people who worked on this game before it was bought out. You are a retard if you think the wages got to 150m lmao.
The California air does things to your judgement...
bulk of the money went to outsourcing studios to fix the disaster they were left with about 18mo before release, try watching the video
The only explanation that would make any sense is some elaborate money laundering scheme.
The "person" he talked to is not real. They never worked there and they don't know. Like I said, 4chan posts have more credibility.
they have outsourcing studios like lakshya digital listed under "sony interactive entertainment" for some reason
I know we’re all autists here and this will be a hard fact to accept but people tell lies on the internet.
They're underneath keyword studios. A contracting/staffing agency. It's one of those weird things that happens commonly in tech. They aren't so much outsourced as they're a impermanent source of contingent works that can be pulled in for any sort of project necessary.
If we discount the tinfoil conspiracies of money-laundering the most likely answer is the corporate equivalent of FOMO. All the remaining big players in the industry are desperate to find the next big thing and get their hooks into it first. The problem is it's virtually impossible to predict what the next big thing will be until it happens, so you either chase trends or take very expensive shots in the dark.
FOMO most reasonable.
Among Us is an interesting one because it flopped on release and only exploded later when people realised the streaming potential it had, which brings in another factor: costs. I'm just speculating, but I reckon if you looked at most surprise hit video games you'd find almost all of them had small teams and modest budgets.
Games industry is a pretty six degrees of separation sort of place. You work for one major company at one point in your life, you're basically webbed out to every company. Since their company was largely, like 60-75% former Bungie this is especially true. The game was a steaming pile of shit and deserves all the hate. I just prefer seeing it based in truth rather than fanciful flights of financial faggotry.
