No it had a way bigger budget and way more CGI too, KH3 had 6 years AAA budget, XV had only 3 years AAA budget.
KH3 cost more than FFXV
KH3 started in 2013, it's coming in 2019, it's been in development that entire time. Actual gameplay was shown in 2013 at D23 and they ported all the content they made on luminous since 2013 to ue4 in 2014. That's still development. scenes from 2013 and gameplay segments from 2013 are in the game even if they redid them completely, that's still development.
In comparison versus had a literal CG trailer in 2006 and no actual "game" even existed until like 2010 when they started doing versus properly, even then from 2006-2012 they only had 20~ people doing shit in their spare time.
Average salary of game dev in Japan is 57k. 20x57000 = 1,140000 for 1 years dev time budget, 1,140000 x 6 years is 6,840000 for 6 years dev budget for what versus had.
XV didn't get 200 internal devs until 2014, it had 300 devs only in 2015 with 100 of those outsourced cheaply to China and an extra 100 from Malaysia/vietnam added in 2016 also all outdourced.
Their salaries are 5k a year in malaysia and 11k a year in china, and 1k-2k a year in vietnam, all less than 1/5 the average 57k salary of Japanese devs.
So even if you say 100 of them from Malaysia/vietnam were getting 5k that's only 500k budget for 1 year of them, since they were on for 1 year that's only 500k dev budget
And with the 100 at china with 11k is 1.1m in 1 year, with these chinese devs on for 2 years so that's 2.2m dev budget for that
2013 had 100 people so 100 x 57k is 5,700000
So 2014 had 200 people internal in Japan
So 2014 57k x 200 = 11, 400000 for 1 year dev budget, times that by 3 is 34,200000, add 2013 budget is 39,900000
add to that the total in 2015 and 2016 for outsourced devs is 2.7m, so the dev cost is 41m for XV. That's rough estimates but based on facts
Just for reference FF7 cost 45m dev budget
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