Ubisoft CEO on next gen ($60m dev budgets, powerful HW, Onlive's impact)

[NJ5]

Taz! said:

NJ5 said:

Taz! said:
$60M

Ouch.

I think it's foolishness to keep heading in the bigger budgets direction. Most publishers are already losing money today, imagine the risk of making a significant number of $60 million games.

 

It just wouldn't work. This could encourage companies to increase retail prices, and increasing these prices would lead to lower sales. It's a death cycle for developers. I think the current budgets should be ample for next Gen..

In the end it would just lead people to developers who have the Nintendo philosophy. I think Microsoft and Sony perfectly realize this and they won't make as powerful hardware as this article indicates.