At the PlayStation State of Play held earlier this month, IO Interactive unexpectedly announced "007: Dawn".According to the CEO of IO Interactive, the development budget of "007: Dawn" exceeds US$200 million, and the studio plans to provide long-term support to it.

In a recent interview with The Game Business, IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak said the upcoming James Bond game is the most expensive and largest project ever.

"A rough estimate, we can say that "Killer 2016" has a budget of about $100 million. "Killer 2" is about $60 million, and "Killer 3" is about $20 million. It's obvious that the game "007" is more investment. It's a more expensive and ambitious product. But the way we build it is for the long term."

From this passage, we can see that the CEO first listed the budget for each "Killer" game and shared that the investment in the "007" project far exceeded previous works.Therefore, the total cost of the "Killer" trilogy has exceeded US$180 million, and it is reasonable to speculate that the budget of "007" has indeed exceeded US$200 million.

This amount is actually not an exaggeration. After all, the developer invested $100 million in a game as early as 2016. Now facing the new generation of platforms, it is not surprising that the investment will double. After all, the cost of game development is not only getting higher and higher, but also the cycle is getting longer and longer.Moreover, the developer’s goal is to get the game long-term support.