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Kotaku: Report: Activision Sets Up Third Call Of Duty Team [Activision]
Maximum PC all RSS Feed: Rumor: Third Developer to Heed the Call of Duty
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews: Modern Warfare Costed $40-$50 Million To Make
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RT @gamocracy: isn't something wrong when they spend 4x as much in marketing as in actually making the game? http://bit.ly/4y0gfD -via @ ... 12/2/2009 |
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RT @gamesbrief: #MW2 had a dev budget of $50m, but a marketing/distribution budget of 4x that at $200 m http://bit.ly/4y0gfD #indigopearl 12/2/2009 |
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#MW2 cost $200 million with marketing. Eat that, James Cameron. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-duty18-2009nov18,0,5238209.story 11/20/2009 |
Report: Activision Sets Up Third Call Of Duty Team [Activision]
Kotaku —
... franchise may not be enough for the publisher. A report from the LA Times says that a third team is now tasked with Call of Duty development duties. While the news outlet doesn't name the studio responsible for providing gamers with even more of the Call of Duty that they clearly crave, having a third team dedicated to pumping out future iterations could mean any number of things. One possibility could give current Call of Duty developers Treyarch and ...
How Much Did It Cost To Make Modern Warfare 2? [Mw2]
Kotaku —
... , but that game's been in development for five years, not the two it took to get MW2 out the door. So, yes, if you were wondering how Activision got so much detail, Fiddy and Keith David into the game, that's how they did it. By throwing money at it. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 video game gets Hollywood-scale launch [LA Times] Send an email to the author of this post at ...
Rumor: Third Developer to Heed the Call of Duty
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... The LA Times, however, is reporting just that. “Although Infinity Ward and Treyarch have produced sequels in alternating years since 2005, the publisher now has a third development studio working on future versions,” read the publication’s article on Modern Warfare 2’s launch. ...
Modern Warfare Costed $40-$50 Million To Make
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... The launch budget of the game was about $200 million which is about the same cost as a summer movie. That $200 million included producing, distributing, and marketing. “My goal was to create a launch that would compare very favorably to the biggest box offices of all time,” stated Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick in an interview with the L.A. Times. It looks like Kotick met his goal based on the sales the game made thus far. ...
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paidContent —
... In the console-game world, discovery happens both through game reviews and through marketing. Marketing can be very expensive. On top of development costs, Modern Warfare 2 had a launch budget of $200 million, including marketing and the cost of producing and distributing discs. ...
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