A mistake throughout the Microsoft/ Activision Blizzard FTC listening to has unintentionally revealed the price of making a few of Sony’s largest titles.
Due to some very poor redacting, anybody who has been following the continued court docket case will be capable to make out some key info regarding the growth price for The Final of Us 2 and Horizon Forbidden West.
Whereas the paperwork have now been pulled from the FTC listening to’s checklist, The Verge’s Tom Warren tweeted a screenshot of the paperwork after they had been uploaded. The small snippet revealed that Sony spent $212 million for Horizon Forbidden West over a five-year interval with 300 full-time builders. Whereas Sony rolled out the purple carpet for The Final of Us 2 spending $220 million over six years with 200 full-time staff.
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These numbers imply that Horizon Forbidden West and The Final of Us 2 take second and third spot in the most costly video video games to develop ever, beating out Cyberpunk 2077 and Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2, whereas solely simply shedding out to Star Citizen that sits on the prime with over $400 million. Nevertheless, these numbers do not even embody the price of advertising two huge video games which will need to have shot by way of the roof.
The speed through which price of constructing video video games are escalating signifies that numbers like we noticed over at Sony will turn out to be extra frequent. Earlier this yr the UK’s Competitors and Markets Authority printed a 418-page report that exposed how the common price range for making video games 5 years in the past was $50-$150 million. Whereas these days the fee is extra like $200 million, a quantity that traces up simply with Sony’s obvious Triple-A price range.
The fiasco surrounding Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has revealed all types of knowledge that would not normally be public info. Whether or not its Microsoft claiming the UK is closed for enterprise or how essential Name of Responsibility is to Sony, it looks like the drama nonetheless is not over.
