Well, making the graphics look realistic is expensive and time consuming. Modern people have developed a really good eye for spotting imperfections so if you want them to believe what they are seeing is real, it takes years of development and high end computers.
While sure that may be the case, nobody is asking for realistic graphics, people are happy with pixel art games and good looking games, if the story and gameplay is there the graphics are secondary.
Yeah, as long as they have had a job for at least five years, 12 year olds can fly a fighter jet in most US states. (This is obvious satire, that is unfortunately becoming less obvious with time.)
Serious answer: it's comparing apples to oranges. For the B-2 the total cost of the program was about $45 billion and about double that in today's dollars. You get that two billion figure if you divide the total program cost by the 21 B-2s built, but you could've never developed and built a singular B-2 for just the unit price. And that's still double of GTA after adjusting for inflation
In 2025 USD the bombers cost more than 4 billion per unit btw:
"By 1996, the program produced 21 B-2s at a total cost of $44.7 billion (equivalent to $91,820,000,000 in 2025) or average cost of $2.13 billion (equivalent to $4,370,000,000 in 2025) per aircraft, including procurement, development, testing, and production"
I mean GTA 5 online still makes them nearly a billion a year and they never planned for that. I think they're going to have a hard time getting people to leave FiveM servers for GTA6 and that's why PC isn't a focus
I was already convinced that GTA VI was the better value, even before all the detailed comments about how much more expensive the first bomber was than the lastest.
Any time someone acts out any violent fantasies in a video games, rather than as a head of state, that's a win.
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9point6@lemmy.world · 104 pts · 131d
Can't see either of them
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 131d
To be fair rockstar’s stealth seems more effective.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 131d
Don’t have to hide something that never existed in the first place.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 131d
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 131d
Well, making the graphics look realistic is expensive and time consuming. Modern people have developed a really good eye for spotting imperfections so if you want them to believe what they are seeing is real, it takes years of development and high end computers.
As for GTA 6, I don't know, bloat I guess.
Pman@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 131d
While sure that may be the case, nobody is asking for realistic graphics, people are happy with pixel art games and good looking games, if the story and gameplay is there the graphics are secondary.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 131d
Did you know that others might enjoy different things? :)
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 131d
That's why the first mods after a new gta game comes out are hyper-realistic reshade presets lol
Allero@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 131d
Me! And plenty others. Nothing's wrong with pixel games, but sometimes people want strong immersion, and realistic graphics helps a lot.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo · 26 pts · 131d
2bn is a fuckload of gamedev salaries.
Its barely enough to wake the finance department at raytheon. They need fatter margins to embezzel with.
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 131d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 131d
The difference is that if you don't want GTA 6 then your money doesn't go to it. We didn't have that choice for the flying dorito.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 131d
That's true. I wanted my money to go to a flying Dorito but Mom said no :(
Something aboit how i need to be 12 before I am allowed to fly weponized aircrafts :(
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
I think you could get a waiver for that these days.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 131d
Yeah, as long as they have had a job for at least five years, 12 year olds can fly a fighter jet in most US states. (This is obvious satire, that is unfortunately becoming less obvious with time.)
excral@feddit.org · 16 pts · 131d
Serious answer: it's comparing apples to oranges. For the B-2 the total cost of the program was about $45 billion and about double that in today's dollars. You get that two billion figure if you divide the total program cost by the 21 B-2s built, but you could've never developed and built a singular B-2 for just the unit price. And that's still double of GTA after adjusting for inflation
dunestorm@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 131d
No game is worth a $2bn development cost; most games I play nowadays are indie and AA anyways.
Venator@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 131d
yeah but imagine how many indie games could've been funded with the B-2 bomber budget(~42B)...
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 131d
In 2025 USD the bombers cost more than 4 billion per unit btw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 131d
midi002@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 131d
Pretty much. The USD's half life is 28 years.
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 131d
I like that the answers you got are definitively "yes" and "no."
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 131d
"You people" 🥲
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 131d
otp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 131d
I don't think so. It probably goes further back, from whenever R&D started. No idea how much earlier though
LightYagami@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 131d
I still to this day can't understand where this fact of them using 2 billion dollars for a fucking video game has come from.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 131d
Time and wages.
Remember how long it is in development and how many work on it
Casterial@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 131d
I mean GTA 5 online still makes them nearly a billion a year and they never planned for that. I think they're going to have a hard time getting people to leave FiveM servers for GTA6 and that's why PC isn't a focus
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 131d
cant wait for gta 6 to be 1000 euros
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 131d
I bet there including the development cost of the other games as well to inflate this price.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 131d
Aeron chairs aren't free, bro.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 131d
I was already convinced that GTA VI was the better value, even before all the detailed comments about how much more expensive the first bomber was than the lastest.
Any time someone acts out any violent fantasies in a video games, rather than as a head of state, that's a win.
audit69@programming.dev · 1 pts · 126d