There’s still room for bigger AAA games – Jade Raymond

She makes a good point.

Posted By | On 26th, Mar. 2013

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Jade Raymond believes that there’s still room for bigger AAA games among the mobile, free-to-play and other types of games.

“I think there’s still room for really great triple-A games that can, despite the budget, retain the classic model of expecting people to pay in one big chunk. There’s still room for that,” she told The Guardian.

“But the big publishers have to be honest with themselves – there’s only room for let’s say ten successful titles a year on those sorts of budgets. So you have to go all-in on those; you have to be sure you’ll have a hit, and when you make it you have to invest everything to make sure it’s amazing.”

She also acknowledged the fact that there are gamers who think differently and are more interested in mobile games.

Raymond concluded, “The audience for games is becoming broader and even core gamers who are used to buying games in boxes,are spending more of their time on mobile. So whether it’s long term gamers or the new generation who started out by playing free games on the web or mobile, we have a whole bunch of people who’ve been trained to think differently about the way they spend money on games.

“There’s an expectation to be able to try for free, and only spend money if they want to. We have to figure out how to make that type of thing work with console games as well.”

Do you think the era of triple-a blockbusters is starting to waver slightly, or is the industry merely in a state of flux as next-gen approaches? Let us know below.

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