News Remedy Offers Control 2 Insight, AAA Action RPG on €50 Million Budget

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Remedy has shared an inside look at the budgeting and lifetime goals of creating Control 2, as it states the future game is working on a roughly €50 million budget and will need to sell between three and four million copies to improve on its investment costs. The game is a AAA action RPG, which going by traditional genre standards, represents a slight shift in focus for the sequel.

While the first game certainly had an action focus, it lacked most of the elements and features you would consider part and parcel of the RPG genre. This suggests Remedy could be pushing deeper into such mechanics as it works on the follow-up.

The company update also touched on its recently announced PvE shooter set in the Control universe, FBC Firebreak. It's working on a roughly €30 million budget, won't be full price (and is launching straight into PS Plus Extra), and needs to sell around three million copies to see a 100 per cent return on investment.

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As for previously released games, Remedy shared the first Control has now sold over 4.5 million units, and has reached 19 million players overall through the likes of subscriptions. Alan Wake 2, meanwhile, currently sits on 1.8 million copies sold. It was recently reported that while it hasn't turned a profit on last year's project yet, it's close to doing so. The team also has remakes of the first two Max Payne games in development, in collaboration with Rockstar Games.

[source investors.remedygames.com]

Remedy Offers Control 2 Insight, AAA Action RPG on €50 Million Budget

Looking at 3-4 million units for 100% ROI

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