In an period the place blockbuster open world video games price unfathomable sums of cash to make, Ghost of Yotei appears prefer it’ll be a worthwhile endeavour for developer Sucker Punch.
Talking in an interview with GameFile (paywalled), boss Brian Fleming defined that the sequel had an analogous growth funds to its predecessor. We all know Ghost of Tsushima price round $60 million to make, so it’s honest to imagine its follow-up is in the identical ballpark.
Whereas that is nonetheless a lot of cash, it means Sucker Punch shouldn’t have any hassle making its funding again.
We all know as of September 2024 that Jin Sakai’s outing had bought round 13 million models and banked Sony a cool $400 million in income. Even when Yotei doesn’t carry out at fairly the identical stage, its larger launch day promoting value ought to put it on an analogous trajectory.
In fact, different prices do must be thought-about on high of the $60 million; Sony will possible spend an infinite sum on advertising the sport. However this isn’t a challenge that’s going to make or break the studio.
It’s really relatively refreshing to see a tentpole first-party title like this with an inexpensive growth funds connected to it.
It simply goes to indicate that it is attainable to maintain prices manageable, and we battle to see a state of affairs wherein the sport doesn’t submit a tidy revenue as soon as all’s mentioned and performed.
