AAA Games are about to become extinct
Speaking with Edge Magazine, Ubisoft’s Creative Director for Assassin’s Creed 3, Alex Hutchinson, stated that Assassin’s Creed 3 will be one of the last Triple-A games that is being created with very large teams and multiple studios. According to him, having years of time and large teams working on mature platforms will soon be a thing of the past:
“We’re the last of the dinosaurs. We’re still the monster triple-A game with very large teams [and] multiple studios helping out on different bits. There are fewer and fewer of these games being made, especially as the middle has fallen out.”
“We had almost three years to do it which is a rarity these days; the tech and the hardware platforms were both mature, which allowed us to start running instead of building base features; and the installed user base for all platforms is massive.”
“Many of these factors are about to change, by choice of circumstance, so a lot of us truly believed this was a once in a career opportunity”
I REALLY hope he’s wrong on that…
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