map assets: $6M
weapon assets: $4M
character art: $3M
art direction: sixty bucks

someone who is good at games development budgets please help me, my AAA title is dying

@gsuberland you forgot the most important one: Marketing $200M

(I can't find it again, but one of the CODs alone was 200M I believe -- the marketing budget of the entire Wii console in 2006)

EDIT: the closest I can get

> The UK regulator, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), in its final report on Microsoft’s [...] acquisition of Activision Blizzard, [...] revealed some of the biggest AAA video game franchises [budgets ...] Another publisher said [...] Marketing costs reach up to $310M