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ELI5: Why did it take Rockstar 265$ million dollars to make GTA V.
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There are many reasons for this. Some of the most significant include:

- Insane marketing budget. Ads and other forms or marketing cost a lot of money, and ensures that everyone and their grandfmother knows about the game before it is released.

- Well-known actors are all over the place in the GTA V cast of characters. As you are aware of, famous actors have insane salaries.

- GTA V was developed by a huge number of people, all of which require salary. In addition to the hundreds of developers working directly with the development at Rockstar North, there are tons of people involved in the development, marketing and general production of the game. More so than pretty much any other game released so far.

- It took a lot of time to develop.

- A lot of licensed content (music etc.) costs a lot of money.