Sony Accidentally Reveals That Call of Duty is Worth $800 Million to PlayStation Alone
An internal Sony document has revealed a ton of classified information about the PlayStation brand. More specifically, we learned a lot about Call of Duty’s earnings on the PlayStation platform alone.
The document, which has been filed as evidence in an ongoing trial between the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft, focuses on a letter sent by PlayStation president Jim Ryan. In this poorly edited letter, he mentions how much Call of Duty is worth to PlayStation alone. Specifically, the widely popular first-person shooter series “directly generated more than $800 million” in the US alone in 2021, the document states.
With the latest installment in the series, Modern Warfare II, becoming the fastest Call of Duty game to surpass $1 billion in sales in 2022, it’s no surprise how popular Call of Duty is. .
But that’s all that was revealed in the documents. We also know how much two of PlayStation’s first-party titles will cost. Specifically, documents revealed that Horizon Forbidden West had a production budget of $212 million and The Last of Us Part II had a budget of $220 million. More interestingly, according to Ryan, an internal Sony Interactive Entertainment survey found that nearly half of US-based PS5 users also own a Nintendo Switch, while less than 20 percent of PS5 owners in the same country. also owns an Xbox Series X or Series S. console.
The documents themselves were presented as evidence in an ongoing trial between the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft regarding the tech giant’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard, but have since been withdrawn. If you want to learn more about the ongoing trials, check out our daily recaps. If you’d like to see more detail on previous trial days, check out the Day 1 and Day 2 analysis portions.
Taylor is a reporter for IGN. You can follow her on her Twitter @TayNixster.
