Considering obsidian entertainment last game was AA because of money I say close enough. I say scraping by making AA games is basically the same as going under for a studio of that talent. Ninja theory and inexile did not have the capital to grow into AAA studios. If we cut all Sony studios budgets by 75% and they were forced into AA games to stay afloat that is the same as going under just a slower death.
This is healthy for a studio having constant money worries to pay staff?
"Things have been almost exactly the same, just without the terror of going out of business all the time," says Double Fine boss Tim Schafer. "We've been doing this for 20 years, so it's not that terrifying. But you do think about where we're going to get the next six months of salaries from.
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