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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Obviously there’s indie games that cost nothing except the time of the person who’s making them; that still exists. But then on the upper end of things, I would say it can go into the multiple millions. We’ve certainly worked on games that are multiple millions of dollars just in development costs. If you’ve got a group of people coming together for a game, and it’s a sizable team, then that’s gonna cost [a lot].

I mean, that's obvious. There absolutely are solo devs. And everyone needs to have money. More people, more money needed.