Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida is enjoying Ghost of Yotei, but says AAA games have to play it safe, while indie games are where all the new ideas are.
As video game budgets balloon, it's clear that large-scale releases are playing it safe. Sony has a formula of third-person cinematic action adventure games that works for them, while Ubisoft will pump out multiple open-world series that follow roughly the same design philosophy (which in turn has been adopted by others like Sony's Horizon series).
