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Not at that price point, of course. Ultrakill has a sub 2 million USD budget, its one of the most critically praised games on Steam, and its not even finished yet. I can't look up Steamcharts at work but I have good reason to believe its more than made back its production budget.
Live service games are starting to turn into a very expensive scam and if you can't make a good single player game, you need to cut costs somewhere. AAA production budgets are just too huge and the product isn't good.
Obligatory, I fucking love Ultrakill graaah
But that's a problem with a lot of AAA developers. You can't make a AAA game that isn't a Skinner box for a price that players will pay.
God of War? Elder Ring? Baldur's Gate? Spiderman? Last of Us? Super Mario? Zelda? Red Dead Redemption? Cyberpunk?
They certainly have the production budget of an AAA game.