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Subject: How much did it cost?

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I'm not expert on Bungie's history, and I've done a bit of searching and can't find this info anywhere, so here goes:

How much did it initially cost Bungie to make Halo: CE? It was their first game, was it not? I've always wondered what it would take to make a game like that. I know of a few game companies that started off with just a few people (half dozen or a dozen people or so) that weren't HUGE scale games, but were impressive games nonetheless, and they did it for fairly cheap and then grew into huge game companies as a result of that success.

Just wondering if Bungie was one of these companies. If I ever win the lottery or something (ha, yeah right, right?) I'd most definitely like to invest in making at least one game, just to do it and have that experience. If it sold well, I'd obviously go full-bore and make a career out of it.

  • 11.02.2010 10:32 AM PDT

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I would like to find this out too. I've recently done some research on this too and have yet to come up with anything.

  • 11.02.2010 10:38 AM PDT

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I found something that said Halo 3 cost 30+ million to make, and another 30 or so million on marketing and other costs (toys, etc.). But Halo 3 is considerably bigger than Halo: CE, and so was their company size compared to who worked on Halo: CE, I'm sure. So the cost is probably far less for Halo: CE.

  • 11.02.2010 10:52 AM PDT

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How much did it initially cost Bungie to make Halo: CE? It was their first game, was it not?


Hell no. Bungie has had loads of games before this. Marathon, Myth, Oni, PWID, Gnop, Weekend Warrior, etc.

  • 11.02.2010 12:10 PM PDT

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Well I knew about Marathon, I just never knew when it came out. The others, I didn't know about.

  • 11.02.2010 5:55 PM PDT
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Idk dude. Roughly $20,000,000

[Edited on 11.09.2010 12:15 PM PST]

  • 11.09.2010 12:15 PM PDT

Personally, I don't think a significant amount of money compared to the sequels of the series was put in. If you watch early commercials on Halo CE you could totally READ that Microsoft thought the game was going to flop, it's extremely ironically hilarious if you think about it.

  • 11.09.2010 5:11 PM PDT