agree on the tight deadline. it is more of a time issue regardless if there are onshore/offshore work. it is hard to beat the timeline and most of the developers are working extra time to finish their work and hand it off to the next shift person. it would be better to stretch it out a bit - 2-3 years apart. if the game is really great and less glitchy/buggy. i'm sure the gamers would buy the next game. even now, AC series are still selling well anyway. :D
Kojima has a great vision but i think he overbudgeted which Konami management was pissed off, i think. that is the problem when you gave control on the budget to certain people who just extended the budget without limits. Besides SE, which Japanese studio really went into western type of AAA game budget?
