Flere udviklere har pointeret hvor meget dyrere spiludvikling er blevet over det seneste årti ved at sammenligne med ældre kapitler i samme serie, men Gearbox fortæller nu hvor meget omkostningerne tilsyneladende er steget siden så sent som 2019.
Under et PAX East-panel (via GamesRadar) siger Gearbox-chef Randy Pitchford at Borderlands 4’s budget er mere end dobbelt så stort som Borderlands 3, som ja, udkom for bare seks år siden. Det betyder at studiet lige nu overvejer en prissætning på $79,99, som både Nintendo og Microsoft har i sinde at bruge fremadrettet.
Pitchford slår dog fast at beslutningen ikke er truffet endnu:
“I’ll tell you the truth. I don’t know. That is the truth. I’ll hit it straight on. It’s an interesting time. On one level, we’ve got a competitive marketplace where the people that make those choices want to sell as many units as possible and they want to be careful about people that are price-sensitive. There are some folks who don’t want to see prices go up, even the ones deciding what the prices are. There’s other folks accepting the reality that game budgets are increasing, and there’s tariffs for the retail packaging. It’s getting gnarly out there, you guys. Borderlands 4 has more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3. More than twice. So the truth is, I don’t know what the price is going to be.”
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