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Sony has admitted that traditional triple-A game development on PlayStation Vita is not a viable business model. Instead, it now believes that streaming console games from PS4 and, via PlayStation Now, PS3 offers the best route for triple-A gaming on the machine. The economics simply don’t work with the traditional …
Read More »Sweeney: Triple-A games could be the minority in future
Epic founder says game budgets are tripling on PS4 and Xbox One
Read More »Dev says gay triple-A protagonist unlikely for ‘a while’
Fears of a negative sales impact mean that it’s likely to be some time before a triple-A game is released featuring an openly gay character. That’s according to Ubisoft Montreal’s lead writer Lucien Soulban. So when are we going to see that gay protagonist in a triple-A game? Not for …
Read More »Just Cause dev warns of market’s triple-A sickness
Christofer Sundberg, the creator of the Just Cause series, has said that triple-A game development has failed to evolve alongside technology. "It’s really not healthy at the moment," the Avalanche Studios founder, who is currently working on Mad Max, told GameSpot. "Games have evolved, technology has evolved but as businesses …
Read More »Avalanche Studios: Triple-A games model is 15 years behind
Mad Max developer says publisher focus on blockbusters is "really not healthy"
Read More »Io says triple-A Hitman game will ‘fulfil core Hitman fantasy’
Keen to dispel recent rumours, Io Interactive has released a number of details concerning its next-gen Hitman game. Reports last week suggested the Hitman franchise had been abandoned on consoles but nothing could be further from the truth. In the next game you will experience a globetrotting Agent 47 at …
Read More »Take-Two not convinced by triple-A free-to-play
The CEO of Take-Two has expressed scepticism about the potential of publishers to make significant money from triple-A free-to-play games. "I’m not psyched about a business where three per cent of your customers pay you, which is what you’re dealing with," Strauss Zelnick said at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference, …
Read More »Long-form triple-A games ‘constraining creativity’
Ninja Theory creative director champions shorter high-end titles at lower prices
Read More »Triple-A game sales will recover when next-gen launches, says EA
Publisher EA has dismissed concerns over falling sales of this year’s biggest games. Battlefield 4, Assassin’s Creed IV, Call of Duty: Ghosts and, to a lesser extent, FIFA 14, have all suffered steep declines in sales over their predecessors. But EA Studios EVP Patrick Soderlund says the difficult few weeks …
Read More »Ten triple-A mistakes and how free-to-play developers can avoid them
F2P Summit: GamesBrief's Nicholas Lovell explores the differences between freemium games and traditional production
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