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Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden wants to save games by bringing back double-A - and he has a plan

He's been saying it for years: blockbuster game development is unsustainable today, and given that Shawn Layden used to lead PlayStation's entire roster of first-party studios, he likely knows a fair bit about the issue. "Every generation it costs twice as much to build a game," he told Tom Phillips more recently. Read...

He's been saying it for years: blockbuster game development is unsustainable today, and given that Shawn Layden used to lead PlayStation's entire roster of first-party studios, he likely knows a fair bit about the issue. "Every generation it costs twice as much to build a game," he told Tom Phillips more recently.

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