Ubisoft intends to wrap up development on its games earlier to add more polish and improve testing, CEO Yves Guillemot has said. The company will look to ship less buggy products as a result.
"What we see more and more is that we need time to do even more polish than what we do today," Guillemot said in the latest issue of MCV. "We were tweaking Watch Dogs right until the last minute, we changed some things right at the end. So what we have decided to do is finish the game earlier so that we can test things more and more and change a certain number of parameters."
But to help speed up the development process, the publisher will also begin reusing assets in future titles, Guillemot says.
"Going forward we should reuse more things," he added. "Today, we will create a car in one studio, and we don't reuse that car in any other games. We need to make sure we can reuse items that people won't care about. That is one direction we can take to optimise the investment."
Source: VideoGamer