Quantic Dream’s PS3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls, has a production budget of some €20million (£16.9m), French outlet Le Figaro have claimed.
The production costs for David Cage’s psychological thriller – due out on October 11th – were cited during an interview discussing the visionary director’s latest game, his French roots, and his home-country’s take on the industry.
The figure is surprisingly small when you consider that the game stars Hollywood actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe and features a soundtrack scored by award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, previously responsible for such masterpieces as The Lion King, The Dark Knight and Inception.
Quantic Dream’s previous blockbuster, 2010’s Heavy Rain, reportedly cost €16.3m to produce and subsequently went on to gross in excess of €70m for Sony.
Source: Le Figaro
Stefan L
Ten of these or one GTA V?
Tuffcub
Ten of these.
boeboe
10 William Defoe’s or 1 Trevor Phillips? Trevor wins hands down!
tactical20
You know it mate. Trevor is my favourite video game character ever!
Kennykazey
How much of GTAs budget is marketing though, 100 million? This figure for Beyond sounds like it’s without marketing costs.
bunimomike
Agreed, Kenny. The budget of $260 million for GTA V was for production and marketing. However, I’m guessing only a few million will be thrown behind Beyond for marketing.
Still… a staggering contrast.
cam_manutd
Its basically a film anyway :P. Puts things into perspective when GTA5 cost $260 million. Really stoked for this though more so than GTA :D
Eldave0
Wow, I didn’t realise how profitable Heavy Rain was for Sony! I would have thought niche titles like this wouldn’t sell many copies at all. Fingers crossed Beyond performs well too as it looks great.