Sony accidentally revealed the budgets for The Last of Us: Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West in a poorly-redacted documented submitted as part of the Xbox FTC trial.
That is honestly less than I expected. Didn’t destiny cost over $500 mio? From what I can find about sales figures, both games should theoretically have broken even during their first week or so of sale.
I wonder how much they make? Google says Horizon sold over 8 million copies. But it doesn’t sound like financial data is shared and I’m not sure what the price is like around the world or how sales might be geographically distributed. But if they made an average of, say, $50 from each sale, that’s over $400M revenue, or doubling their (huge) investment.
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That is honestly less than I expected. Didn’t destiny cost over $500 mio? From what I can find about sales figures, both games should theoretically have broken even during their first week or so of sale.
I wonder how much they make? Google says Horizon sold over 8 million copies. But it doesn’t sound like financial data is shared and I’m not sure what the price is like around the world or how sales might be geographically distributed. But if they made an average of, say, $50 from each sale, that’s over $400M revenue, or doubling their (huge) investment.
Well deserved in the case of these two games.