Game development budgets are increasingly spiralling into nine figures. A game like Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is obviously at the very top of this spectrum, given that it's a tentpole console ...

"It may be counterintuitive but, you know, if we spent enough money to make the big game you know the chance of success felt increased because everybody wanted to play bigger games [with] more ...

PlayStation believes it would need to reduce the quality and budgets in order to release AAA exclusives on its tiered PlayStation Plus service. Xbox Game Pass has been a major game-changer for the ...

Former PlayStation exec forecasts PS5 game budgets will exceed $200 million Ever-ballooning budgets will lead to more sequels and less innovation, says one of the former bosses of the PlayStation ...

E-Day is coming to PS5, and Sony confirms more multiformat releases, the era of video game exclusives appears to be coming to an end.

Former Sony Interactive Entertainment chairman Shawn Layden, aka PlayStation's previous boss, reckons that gaming's "collapse in creativity" is due to ballooning budgets and risk-averse publishers.

Now, because Sharpies can fail to fully redact paper documents if you scan them, we can quantify some of Sony's PlayStation game budgets, earnings, headcounts, and other figures.

Sony Court Documents Reveal PlayStation Game Budgets That Exceed $200 Million Each. Sharpie scribbles in a court filing fail to hide the costs of “The Last of Us Part 2” and “Horizon ...

by William D'Angelo, posted on 01 July 2023 / 5,790 Views. The budgets for two first-party PlayStation games have accidentally been revealed in a document submitted by Sony Interactive ...

Sony Believes It'll Have to Slash Game Budgets In Order to Compete With Xbox Game Pass: Either AAA titles receive budget cuts or they won't be available on the new PlayStation Plus service on day one.

Ex-PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has put forward a case to reconsider the scale and scope of AAA video games, stating that the current large-scale offerings are unsustainable for the industry.