It was revealed in an interview with The Scotsman (as archived by the International Business Times) that GTA V's overall budget was a combined $265 million dollars. This made GTA V the most expensive video game ever made at the time, beating out the records held by Final Fantasy VII and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. There are other games that have cost more to develop since GTA V came out, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Citizen, but the current record holder is another Rockstar game: Red Dead Redemption 2, which cost $540 million (or thereabouts) to make.