GTA 6 budget rumours explained: How much has GTA 6 cost to make?

So, how is that Grand Theft Auto 6 budget looking?

Based on the trailers alone, it's pushing the boundaries of gaming pretty far with its densely populated open world, and will have a cost to match that – here's what we know.

GTA 6 budget rumours explained: How much did it cost to make?

According to visualcapitalist.com, a leak from a hacker has sparked rumours that Grand Theft Auto 6 had a whopping budget of $2 billion.

We don't know if this is absolutely certain or not, but a budget that size would make GTA 5 far and away the most expensive video game ever developed.

2019's mammoth Red Dead Redemption 2 came to a $540 million budget (including marketing), making it one of the most expensive games ever made. So can we expect four times that from GTA 6?

Naturally, $2 billion is a lot of money to spend on a game.

In fact, it's so much money that fans have now started comparing the game to other non-gaming projects, and the results are startling to say the least.

As Twitter user Synth Potato pointed out, the current tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, cost $1.5 billion to build – a full half a billion dollars less than GTA 6 is rumoured to have cost. It also took only six years to build, compared to GTA 6's 13 year development period.

But if there's any game that's almost guaranteed to make a profit despite spending $10bn, it's GTA 6.

GTA 5 made an eye-watering $1.2 billion in only five days following its launch, and in the 10 years since it came out, GTA 5 has generated about $8 billion in revenue, we imagine thanks largely to GTA Online.

If that wasn't mind-blowing enough, some industry analysts have predicted that GTA 6 will hit the $1 billion in revenue on the day of release.

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