Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says it's not "true that big budget = s**t" and it's "easier than ever" to "find an audience" for games, but "the public company model is broken in entertainment"

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Astarion, a pale male elf with short curly white hair and red eyes, looking over his shoulder with a smirk on his face.

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director Michael Douse says it's not necessarily true that enormous game budgets are a terrible thing, but the "public company model is broken" in the entertainment industry, anyway.

This comes via a thread on Twitter, where Apogee Software co-founder and Duke Nukem co-creator George Broussard responds to a recent quote from Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, who expressed he thinks gaming could "either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money."