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Gears of War: E-Day’s $500 Million Budget Is “Real”

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Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier has stated that Gears of War: E-Day cost Xbox $500 million (about £385 million) to make. Schreier made the claim in a video about EA’s closure of BioWare. He cited the figure while arguing that soaring development costs are behind much of the industry’s recent layoffs and studio closures. “We just [...]
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Gears E-Day has sold over 400,000 copies against a record budget of 500 million dollars, disappointing Microsoft's expectations.According to data reported in recent days, Gears E-Day has sold over 400,000 copies between Xbox and PC consoles, achieving a disappointing result for a triple A title of this magnitude.The situation gets even darker if you consider the extraordinary budget allocated by Microsoft to give life to the project curated by T…

It seems that the rumors about the development budget of Gears of War: E-Day were not exaggerated, for the general bewilderment.

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multiplayer.it broke the news on Friday, October 30, 2026.
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