http://grandtheftauto.ign.com/articles/ … evelopmentLeslie Benzies, the producer of Grand Theft Auto IV, recently revealed in an interview that the amount of money spent on the development of the game was right around $100 million.
"It's like making a theatre production, a few movies and an album all to fit into one package,' he says. He hasn't a clue how much GTA IV has cost to make but hazards a guess at $100m. About 1,000 people have had a hand in developing it. The perfectionism Houser and Benzies demand of their teams is astonishing. For GTA IV, time-lapse cameras were set on rooftops in New York to capture the correct intensity of the rain. Over 100,000 photographs were taken on location.
and the interview
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u … 821838.ece