Not including marketing
In yet another batch of filings for the FTC, only this time filed by Sony, the company accidentally revealed the budgets of two of its major exclusives.
It turned out that the development cost of Horizon Forbidden West, which many thematic resources called one of the most beautiful games of the generation, amounted to $ 212 million. The Last of Us Part II, which is still technically one of the best games on the market, cost Sony $220 million to develop.
The Last of Us Part II and Horizon Forbidden West Development Cost Revealed
In the first case, about 300 people worked on the project for five years on average. The Last of Us Part II was developed by about 200 people.
In both cases, we are talking exclusively about the production budget without taking into account marketing, the costs of which are sometimes comparable to the costs of the development itself.
