"Next generation of freemium games will be indistinguishable from AAA"

Ben Cousins has had a busy month. As a veteran of free-to-play projects at Sony, EA and DICE, and now head of ngmoco's AAA mobile studio in Sweden, Cousins is well placed to comment on emerging platforms and business models, and in the last four weeks that's precisely what he has done.

[donniebaseball]

They'll get better no doubt, but it'll be a while before they match up with AAA console titles

[Stinky_Fish]

why would I listen to a bias jelous nobody

[1nsomniac]

So while every developer is moaning about how difficult it is to fund games & how its nearly impossible to make your money back this guy wants us to believe they will make free games just as good as the blockbusters.

Sometimes I wonder whether I live in the same world as the people who make statements like these. Seems were fed bullshit from every single angle these days.

[Indigo123]

"when I say something like, 'mobile is going to kill consoles' - I just mean the companies and the platforms."

even more ridiculous

[GraveLord]

That will NEVER happen unless the game is made by one of the giant publishers.

[DaveMan]

That's horrible.

Freemeium games will destroy those rental buisness completely.

Besides Freemium games are just code name for, "play a tiny piece of our game, then pay for everything else so you can finish it."

Horrible.