Traveller's Tales CEO Jon Burton has revealed to gamesradar.com that he believes the cost of developing PS3 games might not be as astronomical as many developers and publishers fear - at least not when working alongside film studios.

Burton, whose company is currently working on the videogame adaptation of what will almost certainly be this year's big Christmas movie, Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia, explained how he thinks costs could be kept down when developing for next-gen systems.

Imagine if Disney made another Narnia film in three years' time and we made the PS3 version. We could just get the movie assets and plug them into the game - suddenly we can use the same model that they built for the movie.

EA are busy saying that developers would need 500 people to make a game and that it would be too expensive for everyone but them. But when you start tying in with movie studios that are making these assets anyway it becomes much more affordable. It makes real sense.

We can see the logic behind Burton's thinking and it seems like a natural step forward for the development process to take - especially considering the ongoing obsession for games to be more and more like interactive movies.

Programmers normally charged with coding character models would suddenly be freed-up and project times would ultimately be greatly reduced than if assets were created in-house.Whether such a practice really could come to fruition during the next-gen hardware lifespan is speculative, but we imagine it will almost certainly become common practice at some point in the future.

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