Gears of War only cost $10 million to make!

In a recent interview with wired magazine, Mark Rein VP of Epic Games made a mention on the cost of developing Gears of War.

"We spent less than $10 million to make Gears of War. Somewhere between nine and ten million dollars," Rein says. "People are always saying that making next-generation games is really expensive, and we're saying, you should license our technology."


Now the first thing I thought was that he didn't include the development cost of the Unreal engine 3 which is used in Gears so in theory Gears probably ended up costing 10's of millions more than they are saying.