Ubisoft thinks the days of massive "blockbuster Triple-A" games is nearing an end due to the gaming industry shifting to a new development model.
In an interview with Edge magazine, the creative director for Assassin's Creed III, Alex Hutchinson, believes his game will be part of the last set of massive "triple-A" status games.
His basis revolves around the idea the gaming industry is moving away from massive projects which takes years, multiple studios, and hundreds of employees to a new model which can produce games in a quicker time at a smaller scale.
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"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," he said.
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His feelings on the subject have been expressed similarly by other people in the industry such as Cliff Bleszinski who feels the rising costs in game development will hurt the quantity of "Triple A" games during the next generation of consoles. Bleszinski believes the industry might be near the point where only the really big companies can afford to produce massive "blockbuster" games.
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