School shooting lawsuit reveals that Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million, the highest development cost yet reported by a publisher | Gaming

The development of 2020 FPS Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million, making it the most expensive video game project yet reported. That’s according to a court filing reviewed by Stephen Totilo’s Game File (paywalled) in which Call Of Duty creative head Patrick Kelly divulged the budgets of three games in the series.

These are 2015’s Black Ops 3 (“over $450 million”), 2019’s Modern Warfare (“over $640 million”), and the aforementioned Cold War. The filing also contained sales figures: Black Ops 3 has sold 43 million copies, Modern Warfare 41 million, and Cold War 30 million. These are specified by Kelly to be “development costs”, so presumably don’t include marketing, though there’s no full breakdown.

There have been higher external estimates…more

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