The games industry has been a difficult environment for some years now, with major releases struggling to find their audience and layoffs a recurring theme month to month. Reflecting on the current state of things, a dev who's contributed to the likes of The Last of Part 2: Remastered, Apex Legends, and Highguard, believes a lot of the problems lie in astronomical costs.
Writing on Twitter, Del Walker, a character artist who's also worked on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, in addition to the above, points out that we need only look at Rockstar's output for prime examples. "[Grand Theft Auto 3] cost like $5 million. Today anything under $100 million is considered 'small' for AAA," he says.
