In a week where everyone is talking about the likes of big-budget, lengthy AAA endeavors such as Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us Part II, the most pressing news concerning the two comes from an interview with former Sony Interactive Entertainment of America President Shawn Layden. The ex-Sony executive spoke with GamesBeat?s Dean Takahashi via the Gamelab stream this week on the nature of AAA game development and, along with waxing poetic about the days when a big-budget studio effort was cheaper and a 15-20 hour experience, Layden also said that he thinks it is time that the retail cost of games increases with the ever-ballooning price tag of game development. And while consumers are never happy to hear about prices going up, one thing is for sure: The current situation in the industry is untenable and something must change. And that something is that games should cost more and be shorter.
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