Sony cuts ties with PSASBR devs

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Augen said:

morenoingrato said:
And yet, we want MOAR power next gen. See how many developers also bite the dust for that reason.

This is an aspect of the industry I'd like to see dissected bit more.  What goes into development costs?  Why are they increasing at such an apparently rapid pace leading to higher thresholds of sales for success?

Now, my main guess is size of teams these days.  In the 80s a development team could be a dozen people, where as now routinely see 100+ teams.  So, what can be done to reduced the numer of people required to make a game?  It does seem if on Playstation 4 any game has to sell a million to break even and major titles have to sell five million the industry could be in big trouble and re-evaluate its entire model.  

I made a thread about this, really good info about dev cost and how it could affect gaming.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152843&page=1