Devil May Cry 4’s Dante voiced by Reuben Langdon
$500,000 for one voice over session. It sounds like a wonderful dream, doesn’t it? Well, that’s the payout that one unnamed film actor received for his work on a video game, also unnamed. That was just the precedent setting paycheck with another film actor requesting $750,000 for a one hour session on another game, but ultimately being denied.
The video game industry is a prosperous emerging market for the voice over artist with $18 billion in sales in 2007. This has, of course, caught the eye of film actors wanting a piece of that money pie at the detriment of the voice actor.
But is it all bad?
While they may taking away jobs from voice over artists, they are also raising the base rates for these video game sessions. Depending on how you view it, a voice over actor can now make more money in this sector. But, at the expense of more readily available jobs.
