“God of War Ragnarok development costs: USD 200 million – 5 times more than its previous series”

Jakarta –

Success in captivating the hearts of gamers around the world, it turns out the development costs God of War Ragnarok not a little. Funds that have been disbursed for this game are up to USD 200 million or around IDR 2.9 trillion.

This amount is five times more, compared to the previous series, ie God of War III. It was then, adventure Kratos (protagonist in the game) in 2010, cost hundreds of billions of rupiah.

To be precise, the developer spent USD 44 million, or around Rp. 654 billion, to produce the extraordinary work of God of War III. It was stated that the development of this game was very expensive in its time, as quoted detikINET from The Guardian, Thursday (27/4/2023).

This information emerged from an interview with Head of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) Independent Developer Initiative, Shuhei Yoshida. According to him, getting funding for game development is difficult.

“Even when you make great games, remember that there’s also a lot out there in the market about good games that nobody knows about,” Yoshida muses.

Actually series God of War, isn’t the only game that cost so much to develop. As previously reported, many AAA games do have production costs of hundreds of billions to trillions of rupiah.

There are currently the most expensive games Star Citizen. Its development started in 2011, and the cost was USD 275 or around IDR 4 trillion.

Nonetheless, it looks like the efforts made by Santa Monica Studio and Sony pretty good results. In just the first three months since its launch, God of War Ragnarok was able to sell 11 million copies.

Kratos and Atreus were also able to be nominated Game of the Year 2022although in the end it lost to Elder Ring. It’s just that, they were able to win at home, by sweeping PS4 dan PS5 Game of the Year.

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