I think we'll see fewer big AAA studios as we know them today and an explosion in the tablet/online type of game market or any kind of market were there's money to be made from smaller teams with faster iteration cycles. I remember reading a post somewhere in which someone jokingly argued that by 2025 we'd only have a…
Interesting topic,I would have to agree I think the industry is shifting from larger studios to small developers now. For example Eurocom in Derby UK went bust with 200 people made redundant. Last friday Frontier in Cambridge UK made 14 people redundant. However experienced developers seem to be setting up small mobile…
With regards to what J0420 said initially, I think this is going to be the case for anywhere that's traditionally worked on work for hire, lower budget and licensed titles. Australia is the obvious example. We've gone from maybe 15 large-ish studios (relatively speaking. I don't think any of them have ever gotten much…