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Kaan Serin

Former PlayStation boss blames AAA "production costs" for $80 games, says titles with "tighter teams" like Clair Obscur could be the way forward

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Former Sony Interactive and PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida thinks the move toward $80 games was always inevitable.

In the last few months, Nintendo shocked the internet by announcing that Mario Kart World would be its first modern game with a $80 price tag. Xbox wasted no time in jumping aboard and soon revealed that at least some of its new first-party games would also be $80 by the end of the year - hello, Call of Duty?

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