We all know that video game budgets have grown to borderline impossible sizes these days, especially when it comes to the biggest games out there. For example, we know that the average big PlayStation game these days costs about $300 million to make, and if reports are to be believed, the recently released Marvel's Wolverine by Insomniac had a similar budget.
That makes games that come along with budgets in the tens of millions rather than the hundreds even more rare, but we have seen a number of successful, high-production games released recently with moderate budgets, such as Clair Obscur. We can now add The Blood of Dawnwalker to that list too, as the game's budget was recently revealed in a new report, and it's shockingly small for a game its size.
This report comes from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who revealed that Rebel Wolves founder Konrad Tomaszkiewicz funded the first year of the studio's life himself while it started looking for investment. That investment came in the form of NetEase, which bought up a 26% percent stake in Rebel Wolves and handed Tomaszkiewicz a $40 million budget.
Of course, we're not saying that $40 million is chump change, as every indie developer in the world would love to have a sum like that to fund their games, but for a title that had as much scope, vision, and prestige behind it as The Blood of the Dawnwalker has, it's almost nothing compared to those around it. In fact, you could almost fund 8 Blood of the Dawnwalker's with the amount of money it took to make Marvel's Wolverine, and The Blood of the Dawnwalker is more of a total package as well.
With that now in mind, you can see why Rebel Wolves wasn't too worried about making its money back. It's much easier to make back $40 million than it is $300 million, and considering that the game sold 1 million copies just three days after release during one of the busiest months in gaming we've had in a while, I think Rebel Wolves is going to be quite alright.
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