Sony has revealed the massive production costs for The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West

There is no end to the behind the scenes revelations on their part Play Station And X-Box In the middle of the session, between Microsoft And FTC, due to the prohibition of its acquisition Activision Blizzard.

Giant’s legal battle highlights many documents and one of those documents he submitted Sony Interactive Entertainment, took a peek at the massive cost of the big PlayStation AAA exclusives. Except that it was thanks to a huge mistake on the part of Sony.

This is because The Verge, which uncovered this information, by scanning court documents, found that the document in question should cover in black ink the figures on staff numbers, budgets and the development time it took to develop two of Sony’s biggest titles. So, black ink didn’t adequately cover those amounts, and that’s how we learned how The last of us part two It cost $220 million To develop over five years, with more than 200 full-time employees in its project naughty dog

On the other hand, the Horizon Forbidden West Ha Gang war games Released in February 2022, it also took five years to develop and cost About $212 millionwith more than 300 full-time employees working on it.

Sony even mentions the competitiveness between PlayStation and Xbox in these “high quality” games. “PlayStation’s competitiveness with Xbox depends on the availability of such high-quality games that take advantage of the console’s (PS5) innovative and resource-intensive features.The company characteristically writes in the document, also saying that if these “quality” games are not on PlayStation but only on Xbox, thenMost consumers will choose Xbox instead.”

Then the document indicates that in addition to development costs and AAA games global marketing costs It’s big, even for big franchises like the ones above. Those budgets would make Sony’s first-line titles as expensive or even more expensive than the biggest blockbusters from Marvel Studios and Disney.

To give you an idea of ​​how much it cost to produce these massive exclusive titles, blockbusters like The fate of the angrythe Thor: Love and Thunder And Black Panther: Wakanda Forever They cost $250 million each. Closer to Sony’s gaming budget is The Dark Knight Rises ($230 million) The Avengers ($220 million) and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ($217 million).

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