A critical and commercial failure, Forspoken caused the loss of its studio, Luminous Productions, which was absorbed by Square Enix with the promise of relocating all the employees in-house. Recently, the president of the Japanese firm,
Yosuke Matsuda, spoke during the financial review, stating that the game’s poor reviews had been hard to take. Until now, we didn’t know how disappointed Forspoken was, but a certain Allison Ryme leaked some juicy information on the Internet. Lead Writer on Forspoken, Allison Ryme has indeed updated her LinkedIn profile, stating that she had participated in the writing of the game from March 2018 to February 2022, but also worked on the creation of the world, the characters and the gameplay. . But Allison Ryme also took care to reveal the game’s budget, which amounts to more than 100 million dollars. A significant sum for a AAA which required several years of development, hundreds of developers, knowing that Hajime Tabata also slammed the door of Square Enix during development. For her part, Allison Ryme quickly removed the mention of the $100 million budget, but as everyone knows, the Internet never forgets…
If the sum remains colossal for a game of the caliber of Forspoken, other titles have long since exceeded this level, as is the case with Assassin’s Creed Unity and its 140 million budget (70 million for production and as much for marketing). We also remember that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, that of 2009, had cost the tidy sum of $ 250 million to Activision. The latter had invested 500 million dollars for the first Destiny when Bungie was still working with the American giant. GTA V had for its part cost the sum of 250 million budget for Rockstar Games, which had however decided not to count with Red Dead Redemption 2 and its 800 million budget to overcome its 8 years of development. Sure that in the face of these amounts, Forspoken remains quite minor in reality.
