GTA IV Budget Revealed
Grand Theft Auto IV, which has been scoring perfect 10s and breaking UK sales records, is a very ambitious game that has to have a budget in the high millions. But just how high is that million? A $100 million to be exact.
Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies revealed in an interview to Times Online that the game had a cool $100 million budget, putting it ahead of Shenmue for the Dreamcast, which had an unprecedented budget of $70 million.
“It’s like making a theatre production, a few movies and an album all to fit into one package,” he remarked.
Benzies also noted that about 1000 people worked on the game. Rockstar also set up time-lapse cameras around New York City to capture the correct intensity of rain; they also took over 100,000 photos on location to put together the in-game city.
“We’re constantly competing against ourselves,” said Benzies. “If something isn’t exactly right, it comes out of the game or gets fixed.”
Whatever happens, Rockstar and Take-Two are sure to make the money back, seeing as how gamers have been gobbling it up throughout the world.