During a conversation at Gamescom Asia (via GamesIndustry.biz) with Raw Fury co-founder and chief publishing officer Gordon Van Dyke, Layden talked about the disappearance of AA studios and the negative impact it's had on the industry.

The executive said the console power chase has hit a “ceiling” and called for companies to compete on content rather than specs. “It’s time for a real hard reset on the business model, a hard reset on what it is to be a video game,” he told VGC.

With more and more studios opting to make spin-offs, sequels and reboots of existing I.P. rather than explore new concepts and stories, former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has declared there is a "collapse of creativity" in the games industry.

Speaking at Gamescom Asia, former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden offered a grim diagnosis for the state of the games industry: AA studios have disappeared, and rising development costs have left the industry in a creative death spiral (via GamesIndustry.

Shawn Layden, the ex-PlayStation executive who held a number of high-profile roles across Sony Interactive Entertainment, believes there’s been a “collapse” in creativity across the industry due to “studio consolidation and the high cost of production”.

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has said that the disappearance of lower budget, AA games is a death sentence.

Shawn Layden, former PlayStation executive, has spoken out against the current industry model on several occasions. Specifically, he believes that big productions and AAA games that cost millions of dollars are not the right path,