Sharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues - Ars Technica

TL;DR

Most people know AAA games cost a lot to make, but they can also be cash cows if they're hits. Horizon Forbidden West cost $212 million and needed 300 employees for five yearsThe Last of Us Part II cost $220 million and 200 full-time workersCall of Duty represented $800 million of Sony's PlayStation revenue in 2021, according to The Verge's document squinting, and potentially $1. Elsewhere in the documents, Sony's Ryan suggests that 1 million PlayStation owners exclusively play Call of Duty games, with up to 20 million more spending either significant or majority portions of their PlayStation time in the game

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