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Catherine Lewis

Former PlayStation boss "deathly concerned" about ballooning budgets of AAA games, questions how many live-service "forever games" like GTA Online and Fortnite fans really have time for

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Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden is "deathly concerned" about the fact that budgets for big AAA games are ballooning, as he points out that as the cost of making games increases, the allowance for devs to take risks can quickly drop.

In an interview with YouTube creator Destin Legarie (below), Layden, who was previously Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios' chairman, says: "I'm deathly concerned about it. I think it's an existential threat to gaming that we see these ballooning budgets for AAA games. We find that as the budget goes up, the risk tolerance goes to zero pretty fast."

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