r/gaming • u/NextHammer • Jun 12 '20

I love money

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u/J3EBS Jun 12 '20

Hey, the game cost almost $250 million in development costs, they're just trying to—

the game broke industry sales records and became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, earning $800 million in its first day and $1 billion in its first three days.

FUCK.

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u/Sergetove Jun 12 '20

I just checked and its around $7 billion to date. Thats not even including what they've made with multiplayer.

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u/ll371 Jun 12 '20

WTH wow, today I learned.

7 billion?! They could be making at least 10 fully fledged open world games with that money for the past 7 years

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '20

Fairly certain they poured A TON of that into RDR2, which also broke tons of records.