When I fire up call of duty there is listed approximately 50 or 60 companies in the opening sequence, yet streamers only ever refer to treyarch. Then I fire uo Witcher 3, and there is credited nearly no companies by comparison yet it is one of best games to come out of the last 6 years. How does AAA game development work?
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There’s no one answer really there are different valid approaches. A game like call of duty that has yearly releases tends to have different studio’s working on different parts of the game. It’s the only way they can actually get a whole game out every year. Also some of the companies and logos you will see during a start up splash screen won’t development studios that worked on the game.
A game may use a particular engine like Unreal for example so they have to include that on the startup of their game. Same thing with Unity for example. Maybe they use a certain technology to display video inside the game and that has to be shown as part of using it. Different technologies and resources that get used tend to have requirements that they be credited in a few ways so that adds more logos.
You could very easily have one studio do the development of a AAA and still have a bunch of logos on startup. Ultimately AAA is more about how much money is going in and the expected return on investment that is expected out of a game.
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