Xbox co-creator on how the pressure of AAA is destroying Gaming.

[Locknuts]

RolStoppable said:

Locknuts said:

Great idea but I'm not sure how you would put an international cap on game development budgets. Usually the market needs to sort itself out, especially when no one government can legislate to control it.

The thing that would more or less enforce the cap would be the hardware itself. There wouldn't be an actual cap. For example, the 3DS doesn't create a development environment where big publishers can simply outspend everyone else. There's a limit to what can be done on the 3DS, and that limit is high enough to allow many different kinds of games, but low enough to allow virtually every publisher to reasonably compete with everyone else.

I kind of agree. To me PS4 level hardware is more than capable of producing just about any genre of game currently in existence (hell even PS360 were), so hopefully there will be a focus on gameplay and creativity in AAA gaming soon.