Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com8, January 11, 2017, Shanghai Mihayou Network Technology Co., Ltd. launched the original God, an open-world adventure game. The game was launched on September 28, 2020 and has been very popular in many countries and regions since then.

Behind the success of the "original God", it is inseparable from the heavy investment of Mihayou. According to statistics compiled by netizens on the Reddit forum based on the official information of Mihayou, Mihayou provided an initial budget of US $100m (about RMB 673 million) and an annual cost of US $400m (RMB 2.692 billion) for the original god.

In addition, Mihayou announced in 2021 that the original God's budget would increase from $100 million a year to $200 million a year (about 1.346 billion yuan). This means that by September 2022, the development cost of Yuanshen will reach $500 million (about 3.365 billion yuan). This number will make it the most expensive game ever developed, surpassing Interstellar Citizen.

Currently, Interstellar Citizen tops the list of the most expensive games with a development cost of more than $400 million, while Cyberpunk 2077 is not far behind with $316 million (about 2.127 billion yuan).

As an open-world game, the cost of game development is mostly invested in making new main lines, new maps and new characters, so as to attract new players and retain old ones.

CTOnews.com learned that Sensor Tower data showed that Yuan Shen mobile games earned $140 million (about 942 million yuan) in the first half of 2022, making it firmly at the top of the list of outbound mobile games in the United States.

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