Hmm. Doesn't this increase the likelihood that companies will start to outsource work to places like India and China? You know, those workers that get shit for pay and never complain.
Only if they can make one the best selling American games. MW2 worked in part because it was a core development team that knew what it wanted. It wasn't focused outside with outsourced work for most of it.
to answqer that, about 6 years with 3 AAA (hate that term) titles worked on... well the scope of MW is hard to reach but the budgets were similar of coure you have to consider team size, pre production phase, outsourcing, etc... i assumed 2 years of full production & polish phase , plus pre production while MW1 was still…