I like Colin and have been following him for years but I still think his source is bogus. That's not to say he made it up or anything like that, I truly believe he vetted the source and all that, but that doesn't mean that source is still correct, even with inside knowledge. The story just doesn't make sense. I can't see in any way this game was 400 million. I remember playing the beta and thought the game was fairly well polished but it wasn't some high production value or anything like that. Especially comparing it to some other Sony first party AAA games which blows it out of the water both graphically and through animations.
Then you had the whole talk about Sony believing that this was their new "Star wars level IP." And like, c'mon, just need a little common sense here. Sony had such high expectations for this game that they basically showed nothing of this game, expect for the name, until 2 months before it releases? That's just nonsense, Astro bot technically had longer marketing , even if it was only by a couple of weeks. Idk, I more believe in how companies act rather than what sources say. I also couldn't believe a game cost that much that they gave up that fast. They didn't even bother with a f2p model or anything. They literally just gave up and refunded everyone instead of trying to make it work even a little bit.
My guess, the game wasn't cheap, I would think it was definitely around or in the 9 figure range. I would just be shocked if it was even remotely close to 400 mil.