Watched it live. I would say it was quite insightful. Here is the link of the recording:

https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Does it count also the Publisher budget (which usually goes to marketing, advertisement, etc.)?

Hype is fundamental in their marketing strategy. When they release a game port on PC after 1.5 years, all the hype has already died out.

Their loss. I won’t buy a PS5 or later anyway.

Watched a demo at the Milan Games Week in last November. The game is polished and has lots of curated environments. The cities design looks amazing.

To be fair, when I hear people screaming: “It’s too good to be true!”, or: “It has so much we have never seen in AAA!”, etc., on the contrary, we did. It’s taking features already defined in other games and assembled here all together.