Soaring Game Budgets Forcing PlayStation to Expand to PC, Says Ex-Exec Layden
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Ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden believes game development budgets have ballooned to unsustainable levels, making it hard for PlayStation to recoup costs.
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With a limited PlayStation install base, games can't sell enough copies just on PlayStation to be profitable at their high dev costs.
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Layden cites PlayStation's strategy to release games on both PlayStation and PC as a way to increase sales.
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However, PlayStation still lags in releasing big cinematic games on PC and doesn't release them on Xbox.
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Layden now advises a blockchain gaming company, though skepticism persists about blockchain gaming's mainstream appeal.