This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)

Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they’re switching engines on social media.

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    Assembly usage is pretty minor in these engines. Tends to be for just a few very tight loops. It has to be redone for every platform, too. Assembly for x86-64 doesn’t work on ARM. Hell, some things on 32-bit x86 won’t even work on x86-64. You would never want to do more than a function of inline ASM here or there. It’d be a nightmare if you did.

    That said, it’s barely even touching on the complexity of modern engines. Unity and Unreal aren’t just engines, they’re a whole development ecosystem.