There are already $60 million games... what he's saying is that $60 million will become the average for those top tier games such as epic shooters, RPGs and action games.

So... the CEO of Ubisoft is a gibbering idiot who's completely unaware of the course of videogames since 2006? Makes sense.

Also, LOL at the people in this thread talking about 'not paying more than 60$ for a game'. That's cute.

With these huge development costs, I think handhelds will be getting a lot more games than consoles next generation.

We're going to be getting to that point of intense pre-nextgen speculation in the next year or so.. There's a lot of life left in the current consoles though especially with Wii MotionPlus just launching, this generation is really hitting it's stride this year.

But it's rather like the Prisoner's Dillema, isn't it? Whoever first actually sells out and goes for that CGI-graphics game will wow the public and make a ton of money, and if they keep up that level of stuff they'll keep raking it in at the expense of their competitors. So of course everyone else will race to do the same...and thus expend that once-lucrative-but-now-depleted pool, at the expense of tens of millions of dollars. In their minds, they're seeing a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

Anyway. Game studios will figure out a way. Alot of companies already dredge the bottom of the market making games that sell only in the tens or hundreds of thousands but still making a profit. There will be more low budget games (most of which i'll never buy...) but there will still be huge budget games (or which I will buy). The cheep games will fund the huge budget games just as they do now.

I hope this generation lasts a long time. These consoles are too expensive.

That's true, but I still think that for the average game to be 60 million and look like CGI is just nuts.

There will be a graphical jump in the next generation, but Nintendo has shown the industry that bleeding-edge hardware is not what rakes in the cash.