Gears Of War: E-Day’s Apparent $500 Million Budget May Not Tell The Full Story – Report

How much does a true console exclusive cost to make today? If recent reports are to be believed, Gears of War: E-Day had a production cost $500 million, but there's more to that figure than just a single game.

That's according to Windows Central writer Jez Corden, who says he spoke with multiple sources familiar with the story behind the half-billion dollars paid over several years to The Coalition while it was working on Gears of War: E-Day. The studio emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic as a Swiss Army Knife developer that assisted not only on several Xbox games, but also worked on the technology powering them.

As Corden explained, The Coalition worked with Epic Games on the oThe Matrix Awakens and Alpha Point tech demos for Unreal Engine 5 demonstrations, and used that knowledge to help other developers in the Xbox Games Studio portfolio. …