You can usually get sale numbers from vgchartz, but no one ever releases their budgets.
I know games like GTA IV and Red Dead cost over $200M to make and the Call of Duty games are pretty pricey too, but other than that I couldn't tell you.
Wikipedia says "$1M–4M in 2000 to over 5M in 2006 to over 20M in 2010", but I know for a fact that a lot of the AAA games cost in the 100's of millions (any Rockstar game, CoD games, etc.). Those $20M titles though are usually pretty terrible (movie tie-ins, etc.). Just to make budget for a $20M game you would have to see like 400,000+ copies sold, with no marketing.
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