Epic Games Offered Sony $200 Million for PlayStation Exclusives
Documents from the lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple have revealed that Tim Sweeney's company offered Sony a $200 million advance to get some exclusive games for its PC store.
News from the ongoing lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple keep surfacing. We have already Borderlands 3 alone, and that Sony received an advance of $200 million for giving Epic Games access to several exclusive titles from its stable.
Source: Twitter - Idle Sloth.
It's hard to say what games it might have been - the document gives a general outline of the deal rather than the details of the agreement. However, it seems certain that Tim Sweeney's company either offered the Japanese a minimum revenue of $200 million from 4-6 games... or $200 million from each of them - the record is quite unclear (the abbreviation MG, which appears on the above image, probably refers to "minimum guarantee"). It is worth noting that, in accordance with Epic Games' policy, Sony would receive this money regardless of how the game sold on EGS.
Identifying the titles mentioned in the document is difficult because the two big games that have seen PC ports - Predator: Hunting Grounds, but the former, after a year of exclusivity, has also appeared on Valve's platform, while the latter - with all due respect to its potential fans - doesn't seem worth the money. So is the clause supposed to apply to titles that haven't yet been released on PC? Hard to say.
What's interesting, similar proposals were probably Gears 5, for example, are available on Steam, and the head of the Xbox brand, Phil Spencer, is in talks with Gabe Newell - as confirmed by the above document. And getting the Big N to do this kind of collaboration, even in theory, seems as difficult as flying to the moon on a broom.
It's safe to say that Tim Sweeney and his company aren't giving up trying to fight Valve's dominance on PC. What will be the result of their actions, we will probably find out only in 2023, when Epic Games Store is supposed to it brings only losses.
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