{"id":58199,"date":"2013-09-09T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58199"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T10:11:00","slug":"gta-5-cost-r2-6-billion-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/58199-gta-5-cost-r2-6-billion-to-make","title":{"rendered":"GTA 5 cost R2.6-billion to make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto 5 is undoubtedly the biggest release of the year, but another milestone that the team at Rockstar has hit is that the game is the most expensive ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>It cost US$265-million to make, according to a report over on <a title=\"The Scotsman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/lifestyle\/technology\/new-gta-v-release-tipped-to-rake-in-1bn-in-sales-1-3081943\" target=\"_blank\">The Scotsman<\/a> (though, we do wonder where they got this number). That&#8217;s around R2.643-billion, which was the marketing and development budget of the colossal crime-epic.<\/p>\n<p>This puts the budget of GTA 5 in line with Hollywood blockbusters, and the title is being predicted by analysts as the highest-selling game this generation.<\/p>\n<p>GTA 5 is expected to shift 25 million copies in the first year alone, racking up $1.5 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar has now given us the initial\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47460-gta-v-trailer-prepares-you-for-chaos.html\" target=\"_blank\">announcement trailer<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/53417-gta-v-meet-the-antiheroes.html\" target=\"_blank\">character video<\/a>, \u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/56134-gta-5-gameplay-video-finally-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\">gameplay reveal trailer<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57329-gta-5-online-gameplay-details-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTA Online video<\/a>\u00a0that was released earlier in August, and a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57850-gta-5-gameplay-trailer-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\">gameplay trailer<\/a>\u00a0which dropped last week.<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar also released some details about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57839-gta-5-online-crew-structures-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">crew structures and hierarchy in GTA Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Theft Auto V will arrive in stores on 17 September 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotsman<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More GTA 5 news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58108-gta-5-price-increase-in-sa-distributor-retailers-respond.html\">SA GTA 5 price increase: distributor, retailers respond<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58052-gta-5-more-gorgeous-screenshots-released.html\">GTA 5: more gorgeous screenshots released<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57850-gta-5-gameplay-trailer-unveiled.html\">GTA 5 gameplay trailer unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57760-gta-5-collectors-edition-details-online-info-released.html\"><b>GTA 5 Collector\u2019s Edition details, Online info released<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57250-gta-5-insane-new-screenshots-released.html\">GTA 5: insane new screenshots released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most expensive game ever made &#8211; Rockstar&#8217;s GTA 5 breaks production record, with more expected to be smashed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":58063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3309,10999,2603,3308,11000,2009,2219,745],"class_list":["post-58199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-grand-theft-auto-5","tag-grand-theft-auto-online","tag-grand-theft-auto-v","tag-gta-5","tag-gta-online","tag-gta-v","tag-megarom","tag-rockstar-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58204,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions\/58204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}