Sony documents revealed the $200 million cost of Last of Us and Horizon sequels
By ForGeeks Documents released as part of Microsoft’s lawsuit against the FTC have exposed the scale of Sony PlayStation’s budgets for modern blockbusters. They reveal the enormous sums needed to develop first-person games at Sony Interactive Entertainment, while team size, budget, and development time have been redacted.
The documents reveal the huge sums needed to develop first-person games at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
But as reporter Tom Warren discovered, the redacted information had been written in pen and then scanned, so the numbers were still clearly visible. Shortly after this discovery, the documents were seized.
The documents were seized.
Sony documents say the following:
- The creation of Horizon Forbidden West cost approximately $212 million, with 300 employees working on it for five years.
- The Last of Us Part 2 cost an estimated $220 million with 200 people working on it for five years.
It’s already been known that modern triple-ups cost more than $100 million, but this is the first time the full extent of SIE budgets have been revealed. And those numbers don’t include non-development-related costs, such as marketing.
- It’s the first time that the full scale of SIE’s budgets has been disclosed.
