[LEAK] PlayStation Games PC Port Budgets Revealed! Spider-Man 2 PC Port to Release in FY 2025

[Gamernyc78]

PC Ports budgets (as of Feb 2023):

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart PC Port: $2.5 million

• FY21: $0.1 million
• FY22: $0.9 million
• FY23: $1.6 million

Spider-Man Remastered PC Port: $2.3 million

• FY21: $0.4 million
• FY22: $1.9 million
• FY23: $0.0 million.

Spider-Man Miles Morales PC Port: $1.5 million

• FY21: $0.2 million
• FY22: $1.2 million

Spider-Man 2 PC Port: $4.6 million

• FY22: $0.0 million
• FY23: $0.6 million
• FY24: $4.0 million
• FY25: $0.0 million

Wolverine PC Port: $4.0 million

• FY26: $2.0 million
• FY27: $2.0 million

Spider-Man 3 PC Port:

• FY27: $7.0 million

Spider-Man 2 PC Port is listed for FY25, which is the period between April 2025 to March 2026.

Source - Installbase Forum

 

[Etifilio]

what a waste of time

 

[flaccidsnake]

Free money, release them at launch

 

[On Demand]

Are we sure that’s not just the cost to do the port and is not the release year?

At the same time, 2024 would explain Spider-Man 2 having so many bugs and missing features that SM 1 already had. Too much focus on PC and not your own console.

 

[Vertigo]

Free money, release them at launch

Easy money post console launch. At launch is … depends if game budgets further balloon to justify more users etc… they don’t have the need for … yet

 

[Systemshock2023]

Not a fan of releases at launch or even a year after. 2 years is fine. The issue with Sony's approach is game selection and pricing. Timing is ok.

Releasing 2 years after let's them reap the rewards on the console ecosystem and once the game reaches EOL monetize PC. In the meantime the average gaming PC is able to run these games better as gamers had time to upgrade. That would mean less complaints about quality or performance.

 

[Johnic]

That's rough. Looks like the PCMR takes ques from xbox fanboys and refuse to pay for products.

 

[flaccidsnake]

Easy money post console launch. At launch is … depends if game budgets further balloon to justify more users etc… they don’t have the need for … yet

*easier* money at launch.

- It is easier to maintain Playstation+PC builds the entire dev cycle rather than 'porting' a complete game after the fact.

- a PC build is worth 10x more at launch rather than 2 years after

According to Insomniac leaks, Spiderman 2 will be the "most expensive PC port to date" at ~4.5M. On a development budget of $90M for the whole game. Supporting PC is a rounding error. The cost would be almost undetectable if it was executed concurrently with the game's development.

Also for your reading pleasure:

X-Men will be day and date.

 

[On Demand]

That doesn’t say anything about day one.

 

[Satoru]

- It is easier to maintain Playstation+PC builds the entire dev cycle rather than 'porting' a complete game after the fact.

True

- a PC build is worth 10x more at launch rather than 2 years after

A PC build is worth shit since people migrate out of your ecosystem to get it. You lose a console sale, you lose a store % cut, and you have to support multiple platforms. Literally big brain moment.

X-Men will be day and date.

No, it won't, this has been debunked already in multiple places. But you keep hoping for it, maybe if you ask santa very very much he'll deliver.

 

[flaccidsnake]

That doesn’t say anything about day one.

It specifically says "Playstation & PC" at the top. At the bottom, it says if the game doesn't sell 6M combined PS5/PC in the first year, the contract could be broken.

Could Sony release only on PS5 and still sell 6M in the first year? Maybe, but you're grasping at straws to make that conclusion from the text.

 

[Satoru]

It specifically says "Playstation & PC" at the top. At the bottom, it says if the game doesn't sell 6M combined PS5/PC in the first year, the contract could be broken.

Could Sony release only on PS5 and still sell 6M in the first year? Maybe, but you're grasping at straws to make that conclusion from the text.

"First year after its PlayStation release"

Good try, though.

 

[On Demand]

It specifically says "Playstation & PC" at the top. At the bottom, it says if the game doesn't sell 6M combined PS5/PC in the first year, the contract could be broken.

Could Sony release only on PS5 and still sell 6M in the first year? Maybe, but you're grasping at straws to make that conclusion from the text.

Please read it again. Just because it says platforms PS5/PC doesn’t mean PC version will be at launch.

 

[nongkris]

Insomniac and Sony are the dumbest developers on the planet if they're continuing this strategy.

I also feel bamboozled as a early PS5 adopter knowing that their studios are now developing for weaker PC alongside PS5, so quiet literally unable to take advantage of the fixed hardware.

Hope sony continues to see continued PC flops like they've been seeing

 

[On Demand]

And what do you mean “could Sony release only on PS5 and sell 6M….maybe”

That’s a low bar for PlayStation sales numbers. Of course X-Men will sell that on PS5. It will sell more than that the first few weeks. They don’t need PC to achieve those numbers.

 

[Vertigo]

Pfft X-men is an easy 20 million. Especially as Insonmiac further grows their own MCU. And the deeper we get into this gen. It’ll be ripe for huge sales.

I dislike that they’re only doing marvel but this will address the issues with the films and kinda replace them for the next generation of fans.

 

[Satoru]

And what do you mean “could Sony release only on PS5 and sell 6M….maybe”

That’s a low bar for PlayStation sales numbers. Of course X-Men will sell that on PS5. It will sell more than that the first few weeks. They don’t need PC to achieve those numbers.

Spider-man 2 sold more than 6M units in less than 1 month, so those 6M are trivial.

 

[arvfab]

*easier* money at launch.

- It is easier to maintain Playstation+PC builds the entire dev cycle rather than 'porting' a complete game after the fact.

- a PC build is worth 10x more at launch rather than 2 years after

According to Insomniac leaks, Spiderman 2 will be the "most expensive PC port to date" at ~4.5M. On a development budget of $90M for the whole game. Supporting PC is a rounding error. The cost would be almost undetectable if it was executed concurrently with the game's development.

Also for your reading pleasure:

X-Men will be day and date.

I don't know if decreasing the quality on your main platform and losing confidence from your main userbase would be "easier" money...

 

[kuzon]

Surely people pirate more on PC, that means lower sales overall ?

 

[Satoru]

I don't know if decreasing the quality on your main platform and losing confidence from your main userbase would be "easier" money...

And not just that. I genuinely cannot state this enough. Playstation is not just a console or just a group of studios, it's an ecosystem. Most of their revenue comes from their store cut of other developer's games. Their first-party offerings are simply the icing on the cake for some users that may be on the fence about buying their consoles and enter their platform. If you remove that, you lose peopel to PC, which leads to less revenue due to store cuts + less revenue due to missing on your own storefront cut.