It’s not just two guys working in their garage for a few months any more, needless to say.īut let’s dig into it and see if we can find out just how long it took to write Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, how many people were involved and their production and advertising budgets.įirst stop, as always, is Google. In fact, the very best video games now have production budgets that rival Hollywood movies. Without doing any research at all, I can tell you that modern video games like the wildly popular – and controversial – Grand Theft Auto series tend to cost millions of dollars to produce.
