Former PlayStation boss thinks "we've lost a lot of the variety in games," and we can thank the "rising cost" of new titles for that: "We had so many crazy games on PS1"
Shawn Layden says "if every throw of the dice is triple digit millions, then risk tolerance goes to about zero"
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