Ready at Dawn's Ru Weerasuriya has spoken to GamesIndustry about their next gen project and said the AAA and consoles markets will survive despite the difficulties currently faced by those sectors of the industry.
The studio, known for their Daxter and God of War PSP titles, are optimistic about the forthcoming generation saying development of the title – their first originial IP – is "going very well" adding "all the stars are aligning."
Weerasuriya, commenting about the PS4 and the forthcoming console generation, said "I'm looking forward to the future. I truly feel like Sony and PlayStation actually are finally bringing people together. And I don't just mean the player; they're bringing us, as developers, from different genres and from different places, to the common goal or trying to create good entertainment."
Praising Sony's approach of dealing directly with developers and asking what studios wanted to see go into the PS4 he noted "I think it's going to be a necessity for everybody to be like that, not just Microsoft but Nintendo, everyone out there who's willing to make new hardware and make a platform that everybody can develop on just like Apple did."
Despite a series of poor financial results and declining sales for console titles Weerasuriya believes this sector of the market will survive.
"I'm going to be pretty black and white about this… I think the console market is going to survive. It's going to go through all these periods, these transitions, because ultimately, diversity is what our industry was built on. I think that diversity will remain. Big budget triple-A console gaming will remain just like big Hollywood blockbusters are there," he said.
Weerasuriya added that AAA gaming has been growing more steadily than other sectors of the games market over the last thrity years and doesn't see the same spikes in activity which are apparent elsewhere in the industry. AAA developers "are delivering core entertainment to people and they want it," he concluded.
