{"id":268272,"date":"2023-12-27T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=322472"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:20:06","slug":"aaa-games-are-becoming-mid-budget-games-for-sony-spend-as-if-theres-no-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/aaa-games-are-becoming-mid-budget-games-for-sony-spend-as-if-theres-no-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA games are becoming mid-budget games for Sony: spend as if there’s no tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There haven’t been many video games throughout history whose creation has cost more than 100 million dollars. According to Wikipedia, only 17 titles including ‘Spider-Man 2<\/a>‘, ‘The Last of Us 2’ or ‘Destiny’. But Sony has already believed that AAA games cannot cost less than that amount. One hundred million is the average budget.<\/strong> From there, we can talk about the word “blockbuster”. Do you know the bubble we are experiencing in the film world this year? Well, there are some things coming.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One hundred million, where will they go?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In other words: Sony<\/a> needs to sell one and a half million units at $70 each of this budget video game just to break even. And, hopefully, make some kind of profit. And as much as some insist, no: selling one and a half million video games outside of sales is by no means the norm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, currently only three titles have surpassed this barrier: ‘Spider-Man 2’ (5 million), ‘Elden Ring’ (3.64 million) and ‘Final Fantasy XVI’<\/a> (3 million), with an honorable mention to ‘Demon’s Souls’ that almost reaches one and a half million. If the long-term strategy is to create expensive AAA games to promote<\/strong> and consider games like ‘Lords of the Fallen’ practically indies, things are not going well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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