There’s only room for indies and AAA.
“Middle class games” that fall between AAA and indie stools don’t stand a chance in the current climate, so says Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski.
During his ‘Rise of the Power Creative’ presentation at the Games Developer’s Conference in San Francisco today, Bleszinski explained that in the current cluttered market, middling titles that don’t do enough to stand out are going to fail.
“I’m going to go on the record and say that I believe the middle class game is dead,” he said, before drawing an analogy with the movie business.