The cost of a great PS5 game is $ 200 million -apkrig

Former Sony Interactive Entertainment America boss Shawn Layden told Bloomberg that the cost of developing top games for the PS5 will drop $ 200 million. And according to him, this price will continue to rise. As in the past, he reiterated that, according to him, this amount would double with each generation of consoles and high-budget games for the PS4 still cost about $ 100 million.

This has previously led him to the idea that the current trend is unsustainable, and games must therefore be shortened in scope or more expensive for customers. After all, it was he who was at the very beginning of the debate about the higher price of next-gen titles, which we actually actually observed with the advent of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles.

High development costs hinder innovation

Now Layden says that if we can’t control the rising costs, we need to at least reduce the risk, which he says companies are betting so much on continuing. According to him, diversity is limited by the fact that publishers cling to a few certainties and stick to them. According to him, he even contributed in part to this problem during his time at Sony. The PlayStation itself has repeatedly raised the bar and with it about customer expectations.

Jason Schreier, who spoke to Layden, then added another point of interest on Twitter beyond the original text that did not appear in the article. Schreier asked Layden what happened to the Deep Down PS4 exclusivity. Capcom announced this in 2013 and we were supposed to go to the Czech Republic in it. He planned to release it as a free-to-play title in 2014, but of course it didn’t happen and we never saw the game. Shawn Layden reportedly thought for a moment when asked, then replied, “I have no idea.”