BioWare Cofounder: AAA Games Are Not Profitable Any More

BioWare Cofounder: AAA Games Are Not Profitable Any More

BioWare co-founder Greg Zeshuk believes that developing a triple A game is not a smart decision for most development studios since only the top ten can recoup their development costs.

"It's more competitive than it's ever been, it's more dangerous than it's ever been," the creator of Mass Effect and Dragon Age said during his keynote at Develop Conference in Brighton. "Right now it's precisely the wrong thing to chase."

Zeshuk said that an increasing trend - which he believes is for the best - is for veteran game developers to leave big blockbuster development studios and start up small development teams of their own.