Ars Technica: How Much Everyone Working on a $250 Million Video Game Earns (2017)

Find out the budget breakdown of a hypothetical AAA video game. In using the budgets of actual +250MM blockbuster video games as references, this video excludes non-human costs, and reflects an approximation of the take-home pay of all humans involved over a period of 5 years. Disclaimer: Please note not every budget breakdown is the same, and some roles are subject to wider fluctuations than others. This is here to serve as approximations based on a hypothetical video game which has never been made.