These data include the development budget, sales revenue, number of employees, etc. of some well-known games on the Sony PlayStation platform. For example:

 The development budget of "Horizon: The Extremis of the West" is 212 million U.S. dollars, which takes five years and requires 300 employees.

 The development budget of "The Last of Us 2" is 220 million U.S. dollars, requiring 200 full-time employees.

 In the United States alone, the "Call of Duty" series will bring in $800 million in revenue for Sony's PlayStation platform in 2021, and may reach $1.5 billion globally.

 "Call of Duty" players spend an average of $15.9 billion a year on other things they buy

It is worth mentioning that the shooting cost of HBO’s “The Last of Us” live-action drama is about 100-150 million US dollars, which is not as good as the development budget of “The Last of Us 2”.

Elsewhere in the document, Sony’s PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said that 1 million PlayStation users only play the “Call of Duty” series, and as many as 20 million spend a lot or most of their money on the PlayStation platform. Time to play this series.

The purpose of Sony providing these data to the FTC is to prove that if Microsoft makes the “Call of Duty” series into an exclusive game, it will cause serious damage to Sony (despite previous emails showing otherwise).

In addition, Microsoft also accidentally revealed some internal information during the review process. Earlier this week, the media exposed Microsoft’s internal emails, showing that Microsoft had considered acquiring game companies such as Sega, Bungie, and IO Interactive. According to Matt Booty, head of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, Microsoft’s goal at the time was to “spend money to kill Sony.” In response, Microsoft said the emails were just “an industry trend we never pursued” and had nothing to do with the Activision Blizzard acquisition.

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“The Last of Us Part 1” has been the first to land on the PS5 platform on September 2, 2022, and the PC version has also been unlocked a few days ago. The national price is 379 CNY(449 CNY for the deluxe version).

According to reports, in-game resources, textures, and character models in the remake have been significantly improved. In addition to visual enhancements, it also supports AMD FSR 2.2, Nvidia DLSS, Vsync and frame rate capping options, as well as adjustable texture quality, shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion and many other features designed for PC.

In terms of configuration requirements, this game requires at least an Intel Core i7-4770K processor + RX 470 / GTX 970 graphics card, but 1080P 60 frames require an RTX 2070S or RTX 3060 or higher graphics card, and 4K 60 frames requires an RTX 4080 or higher graphics card.

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In a response to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft revealed that game company EA is the largest third-party supplier of console games, followed by Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive. Of course, while Microsoft emphasizes that this is the case for the PlayStation, it’s clear that the same is true for the Xbox.

It is worth mentioning that as a publisher, Sony Interactive Entertainment is the fourth largest publisher on Playstation, and Activision Blizzard is the fifth.

“Sony owns 286 PlayStation exclusives,” Microsoft said. Microsoft also added that Sony’s first-party games are “almost entirely exclusive to the PlayStation platform” “, “Return of Death” and other exclusive works have already or will land on the PC platform).

Speaking of The Last of Us, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard also want regulators to pay more attention to the HBO TV show. An Activision executive previously claimed that the success of The Last of Us was a good reason for the merger to proceed, and Microsoft specifically pointed to the show’s success to the CMA.

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Naughty Dog officially announced the remake of the first generation of “The Last of Us” at the Summer Game Festival. This game is one of the masterpieces of the PS3 console. The remake was released on September 2 this year, and it was the first to land on PS5. platform.

At today’s TGA2022, it was officially announced that “The Last of Us: Part 1” will be available on the PC platform on March 23, 2023. It is now available on the Steam platform, priced at 379 CNY, and supports Simplified Chinese.

In addition, the sci-fi thriller series “The Last of Us” has been scheduled to air on HBO Max on January 15 next year.

According to reports, in-game resources, textures, and character models in the remake have been significantly improved. In addition to visual enhancements, “The Last of Us: Remastered” will also support all PS5 features, including fast loading, 3D audio, tactile feedback for DualSense handles, adaptive triggers, and more.

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