{"id":1920710,"date":"2026-05-06T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1920710"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:54:59","slug":"gta-6-estimated-to-have-cost-take-two-1-billion-to-1-5-billion-so-far-ceo-strauss-zelnick-says-it-was-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1920710","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Estimated to Have Cost Take-Two $1 Billion to $1.5 Billion So Far, CEO Strauss Zelnick Says ‘It Was Expensive’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GTA 6<\/a> may well be the most expensive video game ever made, with parent company Take-Two estimated to have spent $1 billion to $1.5 billion so far.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Business Insider<\/a> suggested the eye-watering budget based on industry analyst estimations as part of an interview with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick. Zelnick wouldn\u2019t say how much the company had spent on GTA 6 so far, but did admit \u201cit was expensive.\u201d If we’re talking about billions of dollars here, that’s one hell of an understatement.<\/p>\n

To put GTA 6 into context, most of the triple-A video game budgets that make headlines do so for being in the hundreds of millions of dollars range. Bungie’s recently released extraction shooter reportedly had a budget of over $250 million<\/a>, for example. Concord’s initial development deal was around $200 million, according to a report by Kotaku<\/u><\/a>. In 2023, new documents submitted as part of the Xbox Federal Trade Commission case accidentally revealed The Last of Us: Part II and Horizon Forbidden West each cost more than $200 million to develop<\/a>. Last year, the astronomical development budgets of the Call of Duty games were revealed for the first time<\/a> after a court document confirmed Activision pumped $700 million into Black Ops Cold War<\/a> alone, although that was over the shooter’s life cycle. GTA 6, clearly, surpasses them all.<\/p>\n