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[Arbiter 90]

The Game Business: Physint budget at Xbox is reportedly around $400M​

This new strategy requires the company to invest in certain areas and it is investing. It's just signed a big game from Hideo Kojima, for example, with a budget reportedly around $400 million and is investing in a new Halo team as well.



Schreier:
I am hesitant to get into exact numbers without seeing documentation or corroborating them with multiple firsthand sources, as always.

And there are a lot of different numbers here. There's the number Physint was originally signed for at PlayStation, the number it was approaching, the number that came up during negotiations, the number it would have been with certain A-list actors attached, the number that Xbox agreed to, and the number it will actually cost by the time it comes out.

All that said, someone at Xbox with firsthand knowledge of the deal told me that they signed Physint for significantly less than this.

Ah ok, Schreier dice che sono meno di 400? Non ho ben chiaro la timeline dei commenti di Dring e Shrek

 

[zaza50]

Ah ok, Schreier dice che sono meno di 400? Non ho ben chiaro la timeline dei commenti di Dring e Shrek

Dring parla dei 400M.
Schreier conferma che il prezzo da MS è sensibilmente più basso (suppongo 200-250M "classici"?).
Schreier non conferma se quel prezzo lì (400M) fosse il prezzo che voleva da Sony.

 

[zaza50]

Corden
I was told similarly by first-hand sources with direct knowledge of the contracts that the figure for PHYSINT is far lower than what is being reported here. It has been suggested to me that the "$400 million" figure is potentially what Sony and PlayStation might've been on the hook for until they cancelled the deal. Xbox and Kojima are building towards their Xbox projects on a "fraction" of this reported figure.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gami...-pay-usd400-million-for-hideo-kojimas-physint

 

[sweet spot]

E' un colpo molto grosso per xbox, è un danno di immagine non riparabile in alcun modo per microtransa$ony. Se fosse pure esclusiva il nuovo metal gear sarebbe veramente un'atomica lanciata sui "digital only".

 

[zaza50]

During the chat (not the newsletter), I mentioned that Hideo Kojima was reportedly seeking $400 million for his game Physint. Now, regular listeners will know the 'report' I am talking about was just some rumours floating around Tokyo Game Show (I mentioned it in that week's Here's The Dring newsletter). It was nothing more than that. Anyway, it got picked up by the internet and I quickly had to clarify that it's just a rumour, and not something I'd stake my reputation on.

Which is just as well, as I now know that Xbox is paying far, far less than that number. Possibly even below $200 million. Regardless, the point I was making is that Xbox is still investing in big projects. It's not just cutting teams. And that's true no matter what it spent on the game.

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200 è la mia aspettativa.
Se riesce a farlo con un range tra i 150 e i 200 è pure meglio lato profittabilità.

 

[Akiller]

Lascia solo le cutscene, il gioco diventa un'avventura grafica.

Scherzi a parte, se la struttura torna ad essere come quella dei vecchi MGS (più lineare, no open-world) credo che sia fattibile con quel budget?

 

[Arbiter 90]

Lascia solo le cutscene, il gioco diventa un'avventura grafica.

Scherzi a parte, se la struttura torna ad essere come quella dei vecchi MGS (più lineare, no open-world) credo che sia fattibile con quel budget?

Per un gioco prodotto in larga parte in Giappone, stiamo parlando comunque di cifre notevoli. Ma anche non fosse fatto in Giappone, 200 milioni sono comunque cifre da AAA