A new round of documents has surfaced revealing that Epic Games has offered Sony $200 million to launch several of their games exclusively on the Epic Games Store.
Epic Games and Sony have a close relationship. Sony invests in Epic Games, Kratos and Aloy dance at Fortnite, Unreal Engine 5 is demonstrated on PlayStation 5. This relationship could have been even more liquid because, as we understand from the court filings in the Epic Games v. Apple case, Epic was offering Sony $200 million to make their games in PC versions temporarily exclusive to the Epic Games Store.
It is mentioned so that this amount was offered for 4-6 Sony games, although it is unclear whether $ 200 million was earmarked for the exclusivity of each of these games individually, or for everyone in the package. By comparison, six months of Borderlands 3 exclusivity Epic paid $115 million, court documents revealed.
The final outcome of this offer is unknown, so we can only judge by the current state of play. Two prominent Sony games for the PC platform – Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone – ended up not ending up as temporary EESC exclusives but were also launched on Steam at the same time. However, there were games that Sony funded, so they were exclusive to the EESC – for example, Predator: Hunting Grounds and ReadySet Heroes.
In any case, Epic's $200 million offer is not really pure "charity." This is really about a kind of guarantee to the publisher of the game who gets in advance gets $ 200 million regardless of the sales results of the game. In case the game doesn't sell enough to cover that $200 million, Epic Games absorbs the cost. But until the game makes that $200 million by selling on the EESC, Epic takes full revenue from each sale. Only after they have covered their investment does the game publisher continue to make money from it.
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