When we look at the financials and the costs, the man years, the amount of months that the team—times the size of the team—worked on it, [it’s] very, very similar, actually
This is surprising since so many sequels this gen have had insane jumps in budget including most of sony's other games. We know thanks to the activision court leaks that horizon FW was around $200m when the first game was around $47m. Spiderman went from $90m to $300m for part 2 in large part due to disney's licensing fees. TLOU 2 was $220m and while we never got info on the first game's budget the uncharted ps3 games were around ~$30-40m at the time so it's probably close to that.