There's probably an extra zero there.

The game looks totally ugly, I really hope Sony is NOT paying for this, I dont want it in my PS+ , it can stay on Steam, I dont care.

Ok!

I'll tell them there's a user that thinks it looks ugly and who doesn't want in in his PS+ and it can stay on Steam. I'll tell them he doesn't care.

I'll also tell them to throw away their dreams of making videogames they can actually design themselves and go and work at Ubisoft or EA so they can sit in a building with 300 other people most of whom never ever see the project's scope in its entirety and have zero design input. I'll tell them it's much better to do a soul destroying job if it means that it's AAA. I'm sure they'll listen to you. 

What game are you talking about?

How i heard it Sony pays by statistic. They tell you how much your game is expected to sell in the first month if you put it on PSN regularly and that is the amount of money they offer you.

Also i really can't believe Sony is doing the actual porting of the game.

You are talking nonsense. Sony isnt gonna decide 13 months in advance what will be June 2015s PS+ offering.

Also 5-700,000 dollars for 1 month PS+? This game you talking about must be graphically intense. Most indie games dont even take 200k to make, their revenues hardly ever reach 1 million dollar. Are you sure you are not trolling?

I'm willing to prove it to one person. I nominate JoeTheBro since everyone knows who is in real life now and he therefore has credibility.

What I can prove to him is that I'm most certainly personal friends with the devs. In that case there is no way to prove the actual amount of money of course. I don't want to get my friends into trouble.

With regards to the underlined. It costs roughly $150k per year to keep the studio running. Keep in mind the incredible risk that the person who owns the studio undertakes. That's literally his entire life's money gone if the game fails. But it hasn't. They've already made up all the dev costs from Steam early access. They've won numerous Indie-dev competitions, and now Sony thinks their game could be a smash hit. They've already been approached to do a movie spin-off based on their game (a really big movie). They are succeeding big time in the Indie scene. 

So if you were to assume that the above is factually correct, then $500k isn't very much.

Furthermore, there are a spectrum of different Indie type games. Some Indie games have more man hours put into them than what was considered AAA just 8 or 10 years ago. JoeTheBro's game is a 1 man operation. 

But since you say it's such a ridiculous claim, how much do you think Sony offers for a big Indie title to be free on PS+ for a month on launch?

To tell you the truth, I hardly believe it myself.

Can Sony even afford to be giving random indie devs half a million dollars just to port their games over to their systems? If this is true, then it's going to be awfully difficult for Sony to recover from their losses.

- Negotiations

- Contracts

- Setting up a studio to do the port

- Including said game in their promotional videos

You'd be surprised.