Former Playstation boss reveals the dev cost of AAA games is almost double on PS5 compared to PS4

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Darc Requiem said:

I think these companies need to do a better job at auditing their books because Horizon Forbidden West had a budget that was over four times the budget of Zero Dawn.

Source for Budget Numbers

Horizon Zero Dawn $47 Million

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2017/03/horizon_zero_dawn_cost_a_reported_e45_million_to_make

Horizon Forbidden West $212 Million

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/29/playstation-game-budgets-leak

I'm actually more surprised to discover Zero Dawn needed only 47 million to make. It's a huge open world game with very good graphics for PS4 standards. I'd have guessed it's budget was over 100 million 

200 million doesn't feel too much for a first part game. Every unit is revenue for Sony, 4 million units is already enough to break even and the game sold twice as much. The rest is pure profit lol

Sony does have a slight caveat that its games will eventually decrease in price, but I suspect selling 4 million before that happens is pretty realistic. 

It was more of a Spider-Man 2 concern. Though you then have the third parties game who drop prices faster than a hen drops an egg.