"It may be counterintuitive but, you know, if we spent enough money to make the big game you know the chance of success felt ...

Ex-PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has put forward a case to reconsider the scale and scope of AAA video games, stating that the current large-scale offerings are unsustainable for the industry ...

With the cost of games rising, Shawn Layden, former PlayStation Exec, believes shorter games are the key to a balanced budget.

A former PlayStation figurehead thinks we're about to hear a lot more about game development budgets going forward in 2024. I reckon we're going to be hearing A LOT on this topic in 2024. 樂 ...

Former PlayStation Boss Says AAA Game Development Is Unsustainable. ... Layden recalled the days when the world's biggest video games were developed on budgets of around $1 million.

Layden compared when the world’s biggest video games were developed on budgets of around USD$1million to the cost of most AAA games nowadays (between $80million and $150million on average ...

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has said that it’s becoming harder to make AAA exclusives due to ballooning costs, referring to recent PS5 game budgets and Microsoft’s multiplatform strategy.

PlayStation believes it would need to reduce the quality and budgets in order to release AAA exclusives on its tiered PlayStation Plus service. Xbox Game Pass has been a major game-changer for the ...

PlayStation worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida doesn't understand why some gamers only want to play big-budget AAA games. Speaking with GamesIndustry International, Yoshida acknowledged that ...

To put it only slightly less simply: Game budgets are growing much faster than the audience is. In fact, at the moment, the audience for AAA games barely seems to be growing at all.