Former Sony Boss Shawn Layden Estimates PS5 Games Will Cost Around $200 Million to Make

Former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shawn Layden, a vocal critic of ever-rising AAA development budgets, has estimated that PlayStation 5 games will cost roughly $200 million to make.

In an interview with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Layden recalled that some of the big-budget PS4 blockbusters he oversaw cost around $100 million to make back then. Video game budgets have since risen exponentially. According to…

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