Shenmue may no longer be most expensive game developed
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris. Tagged with Shenmue.
For the past 18 or so years, Shenmue has held the title as the most expensive game to ever be developed at about $70 million. However, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV may have eclipsed Yu Suzuki’s masterpiece.
In talking with the Times Online, GTA IV’s Producer Leslie Benzies said he believes the title may have eclipsed the $100 million mark with more than 1,000 people working on the game. “It’s like making a theatre production, a few movies and an album all to fit into one package,†he said.
It will be interesting to see if Rockstar ever confirms this price, because Shenmue currently holds the record in Guinness Worlds Records Gamer Edition.
[Via Neo GAF]
Comments on this article
There have been 8 responses to this article.
Chris, you managed to talk about GTA IV on a Sega News site … I told you the GTA craze will get you :(
Psycho_Echidna
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 12:40 am.
Hah hah, well, this should be my only GTA-related post on here.
Chris
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 12:49 am.
You’re lucky Psycho_Echidna. I was planning on turning this into a GTA fansite - but Chris and the others brutally savaged me in a small closet, with a small, feisty weasel.
Graham
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am.
Gerbils work well too. I wonder if GTA IV lets you do that. Now THAT’s hot coffee.
Mike
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 3:17 am.
Gotta remember the time period that Shenmue was released on, though. Turn of the millenium, for a game to be that expensive to make means it certainly was years ahead of it’s time. I would have imagined that if GTA IV was made back then around the same time it would have probably amounted to the same cost as Shenmue did. It’s just things get more expensive as time goes on. I’m pretty sure that if Shenmue had been created around these last few years then it would most probably be reaching for the same cost that GTA is on.
DiGi Valentine
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 3:33 am.
“Gotta remember the time period that Shenmue was released on, though. ”
Ding ding! DiGi Valentine wins. Shenmue was released Dec. 29, 1999 in Japan. GTA2 was released October 22, 1999 in the US and Europe. GTA2 was a top down game much like GTA1, and while having sharper graphics, had nothing on Shenmue. (GTA III was released exactly two years later)
psv
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 8:36 am.
this should be my only GTA-related post on here.
Flash Drive
Posted August 15th, 2008 at 2:45 am.
Where do you get 18!!!!!!!! years from as someone said earlier it was released 1999. do your reasearch before writing about something
hejy8607
Posted May 25th, 2009 at 9:54 am.