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IGN: Crysis Cost $22 Million to Make

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CEO and President of game developer Crytek said Crysis cost 15 million Euros (22 million USD) to develop during a panel about the future of gaming graphics at the Games Convention Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany.

Yet despite the cost, Yerli maintained the game was profitable, adding, "if it wasn't profitable I wouldn't be able to stand here."
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REPLOID24 - 505 days 18 hours ago
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1 - totally
not worth it.
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Jellzy - 505 days 18 hours ago
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The game was really gd, although lacked an enticing story. But i would still say it was worth it as it did provide the company with a profit (apparently), and also raised the bar on real-time graphics whilst providing other developers the same tools to achieve the same detail.

Only problem is, the Unreal 3 Engine seems to be the mainstream, and no1 has really used the Crytek2 Engine other than Crytek themselves.
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jmorph9 - 505 days 18 hours ago
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1.2 - Someone will ...
Someone will use it sometime. Remember it is cutting edge and won't be mainstream for a couple of years.
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KRUSSIDULL - 505 days 18 hours ago
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Entropia will use CryEnigne2 its an MMO i think havent played it for long its free to download uses real life money when buying and lots is real money too the CryEngine 2 update was supposed to come in summer.
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f789790 - 505 days 18 hours ago
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2 - Correction
CryEngine2 and Crysis cost $22 Million to make.
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badz149 - 505 days 18 hours ago
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3 - $22 million
that's not too much for a next-gen game, right? no?
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Jellzy - 505 days 18 hours ago
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Nah it actually isnt all that much. I believe GTAIV has the highest development costs at around $100 million. Before that though the original Shenmue for the dreamcast had an estimated cost of $70 million. So for a game,(and possibly the engine although im not sure?!) to be built for that little is quite remarkable, especially considering the revenue it can produce form licensing out the engine to thrid partys.
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badz149 - 505 days 9 hours ago
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3.2 - that's exactly
what I was thinking about. when I read about this $22 million, it somewhat felt underwhelmed! no wonder because I've heard other games which cost more than that! but for a game as stunning(graphically PC-tearing!) as Crysis, $22 million seems small! I was thinking around $40-$50 millions
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jmorph9 - 505 days 18 hours ago
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4 - Most of that ...
was probably spent on the engine, which they will license out to others. In the end they'll make their money.
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CAPT IRISH - 505 days 18 hours ago
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bring it to consoles and you will make even more money
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Jellzy - 505 days 18 hours ago
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It has already been re-developed (possibly ported?!) to support consoles, in particular the PS3 which Crytek apparently has a inhouse development team for.

http://arstechnica.com/jour...

Its a bit old but details it a bit more.
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Hueco Muendo Leader - 505 days 18 hours ago
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6 - the game wouldve costed more if it was a NEW engine like
killzone 2s, but since it was built off an old engine and just built up from that it reduced the cost a ton
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Jellzy - 505 days 17 hours ago
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Possibly, but the difference in the 2 engines (Crytek, and Crytek 2) is massive but it'd be intersting to find out exactly how much money was spent on the development of the Farcry, and the original Crytek engine... (Runs off to find out...)
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kittoo - 505 days 17 hours ago
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6.2 - It was not built on a old engine
It was made from scratch. There is nothing similar in CryEngine and CryEngine 2 other than name and fantastic ability to render all kind of envionments.
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Hueco Muendo Leader - 505 days 17 hours ago
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7 - either way they spent 6 years making the game and the engine and thats a fact
they were working on crysis since the same time they started on farcry 1 so the engine yet had tons of cost reduction EA was in on some of it also so dont fight for crysis like you pc fans always do
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Jellzy - 505 days 17 hours ago
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kl, didnt know that they were part of a 6 month develpment cycle. Fact is though if they have spent $22 million on both the engine and crysis and this took aprox. 6 years then they obviously feel that they have up'd their game as they are expecting to start development on the Crytek 3 engine next year, and have it completed around 2011/12.

Or Crytek 3 may possibly be an extension of the 2nd engine, rather than built from the ground up?! Hmm...
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