Server costs have also increased significantly.
The development of Tekken 8 cost Bandai Namco noticeably more than the creation of the seventh part of the series, tells Produced by Katsuhiro Harada. According to him, the game's budget has increased several times compared to Tekken 7.
At the same time, says Harada, infrastructure costs have increased. In addition, developers will have to spend more money on post-release support for the project.
Katsuhiro Harada
producer
Development cost [Tekken 8] 10 times higher than it was in the nineties, and more than two – in fact, almost three – times what was spent on Tekken 7. Even the Fight Lounge servers require more money.
Among the reasons for the increase in development costs, the producer names the emergence of an online mode and the increase in the number of configurations for which the game needs to be optimized. In addition, content now has to be created in HD quality.
Tekken 8, players note in the comments, became the first part of the series to be sold for $70 instead of $60. In addition, the developers offer players editions for $100 and $300, as well as season passes and microtransactions.
Harada did not specify whether the developers had already managed to compensate for the costs of creating Tekken 8. Within a month, the game's circulation exceeded 2 million copies.
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