By some kind of capitalistic magic, big financialized companies are not cheap at all, on the contrary they are quiet extravagant with their spendings. They butcher the job and make it look like they ran out of money but that’s actually just deadlines bullshit by the marketing department. In reality, those big publishers just burn piles of cash on everything they deem remotely useful during the process. There’s a guy on YouTube who explains this in a video on why big studios don’t use Blender when the competition is so goddamn expensive