Epic Games president Mike Capps revealed at Gamescom that his studio is working on five games. Given the risk involved with AAA titles nowadays, Capps said it would not be anything like a sequel to Gears of War.
“At Epic we didn’t multiply the studio size by five when we started working on these multiple projects, so you can make some assumptions about the size of those projects,” Capps said, noting the success of Shadow Complex and Infinity Blade influencing the decision.
“Everyone knows the middle class is disappearing from the console business. Gears of War, I hope will do really well, but a pretty good game doesn’t make its money back any more. A game like Homefront sells a couple of million copies and they close the studio, right,” he added. “That’s not enough any more. That’s pretty depressing. You don’t want to see what happens to an industry where it’s Call of Duty, Halo and Gears and no-one else has enough money to make any games any more. That’s not a fun industry,” Capps continued. “I can’t bet my entire company every time I make a game, that’s a really dangerous business.”
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
