Larian Studios is hoping to follow up Baldur's Gate 3 with a "very ambitious" game within the next five years, according to studio head Swen Vincke in an interview with GameSpot.
It's no secret that developing a triple-A game takes quite a long time. The days of major developers releasing multiple games annually are mostly behind us, unless your name is Obsidian Entertainment.
After releasing Avowed in February, Obsidian is set to release The Outer Worlds 2 later this year. The prolific studio could end up releasing five games in six years, a pace almost unheard of in modern triple-A development.
Vincke's approximation is likely accurate: five to seven years seems to be what it takes for an ambitious triple-A title in modern game development. Certain titles, such as The Elder Scrolls 6 and Grand Theft Auto 6, take even longer.
Larian is currently working on two unannounced titles, a new direction for the studio, which has exclusively worked on one game at any given time until now. The objective of this new strategy is to reduce the number of developers idling between projects and to smooth out the inertia caused by jumping from one project to...
