Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden believes that "AA is gone," leaving a gap between AAA and indie games and forming "a threat to the ecosystem" of the games industry.
In a talk during Gamescom Asia (reported on by GamesIndustry.biz), Layden, who previously served as both president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America and chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, argues that games are now developed differently to how they once were. For a start, he says, "you'd usually get a green light" on a game if you could simply say it was fun, thanks to a "fairly high" risk tolerance which came as a result of games not costing "millions" to make.
