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Originally Posted by notorious
Games used to be expensive due to material cost. Material cost is now dirt cheap but development of games is basically a movie-budget.
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Yep. Also, in the early days, most file storage was done in the physical game disk. Once they moved to optical, that cost went away as well.
And you're right. For example, Assassin's Creed Shadows reportedly cost over $250M to make.