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Around 150 people from PlayStation VASG + Malaysia worked on Callisto Protocol
- Thread starter brokenswiftie
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They have been working on third party games from a while now (Battlefront 2, Fallen Order, RE Village and so on), but this really has to be the biggest contribution so far.
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View: https://twitter.com/MichaelMumbauer/status/1592654249501917184?t=fvAnYAE-zdZatxPSXRWNFA&s=19
seems they contributed to the cinematics and mocap
It's two support studios. It's nothing like Guerrilla helping with Death Stranding. I don't think their involvement says much about the quality of the game one way or another.
I think this is the case. It's a good way to keep studios active and also provide support to other devs, especially smaller studios.
it makes sense to have contract work in between for a team their size and speciality. Games take so fucking long to make, there aren't enough first party games to support development on exclusively since Sony has yet to let them lead on a game.
How many other studios are in the credits? A new studios first release being a AAA game like this with a fairly decent turnaround probably means a lot of outside hands.
How many other studios are in the credits? A new studios first release being a AAA game like this with a fairly decent turnaround probably means a lot of outside hands.
You'd need to do it from the ground up as a whole VR game rather than just a mode which would probably turn out quite bad.
Praydog's Universal Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod could work with this game, but its not a given how well. RE2/3/VIII Motion controls would be some work, but 3rd person support only wouldn't be an automatic dealbreaker.
I'm exaggerating but sounds like it does have some Sony touches which helped out the end product. (What you would expect from their 1st party output)
I'm all into the single player, closed world type of games. This game sounds like it's right up my alley and has some of Sony's "touch" which is a nice bonus of sorts.
That's it. Lol
Yeah, expecting there should be some nice polish on that stuff in this, just like in some of the scenes they've been highlighting in the trailers.
Go watch the actual docus on the making of the game, no mentions of Sony and all hype for the actual team at Striking Distance. This was just contract work like any other for the Sony studios.
This is why there is no Bloodborne remake. They are just working on other peoples games.
Sony did have marketing with Callisto. I wonder if this is part of it, they can also provide support.
Sony did have marketing with Callisto. I wonder if this is part of it, they can also provide support.
Obviously no one is going to say "thank you Sony for putting this together" in a game documentary, but clearly SIE has cultivated a great group of teams that all collaborate and work together, not to mention Sony has separate teams that help support their developers and provide technology shared by all SIE teams (such as Initiative for Common Engine).
That user is correct that is a clear quality to Sony first party titles. Their staff and talent stands out, so when you see a PlayStation support team in the credits for a game, many of their other projects are the excellent first party games Sony releases, I think it's understandable to have more faith in this game due to that team.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, money or marketing deals or the like likely changed hands.
Makes sense for Sony, why not sell your support studios services if they have availability
I don't think I've ever seen Sony put soo much people on a third party game before
Yep, for a multiplatform game it is quite weird.
Maybe they are... getting closer? (wink wink wink)
Of course, we don't know the amount of work these developers put into the game.
It could be way less than we imagine.
Wow, I didn't even know they did this stuff. 😅
But that's cool, I guess! Support for smaller studios should be celebrated!
But that's cool, I guess! Support for smaller studios should be celebrated!
Striking Distance has over 200 in house employees and two studios(they have a dedicated R&D studio).
They aren't small.
New studios, then! It's still a new studio, so it's still good.
Unless... Well, unless crunch is involved in some way (which I almost expect at this point).
I mean, Striking Distance contracted them for their services.
Sony and Microsoft partnered to work on PSN's backend, Netflix still uses AWS for their servers IIRC, ILM worked on The Batman.
Sony and Microsoft partnered to work on PSN's backend, Netflix still uses AWS for their servers IIRC, ILM worked on The Batman.
It was. Schofield has said they will work on it going forward, but it did happen for this project.
I know you said you were exaggerating, but I actually agree to a point that Sony's involvement in a game assures me that game will probably be a quality product.
I would hope that a console maker with a proven track record of great tech/dev support for 2nd and 3rd party games, and in this case provides access to advanced tech and most likely substantial support with 150ish people, will make the game a more polished, higher quality product.
Your statement doesn't really seem that controversial, or the gist of it doesn't. To me, your "S tier" simply means you're excited at the additional polish an already great-looking game will get and your anticipating it even more.
Well said.
Sony's involvement does make the game for me to be a little bit more special, especially if they did help with scenematics or the acting portion because that's where they do shine. (Among other things)
Again, not taking credit away from the actual studio. I'm sure they put their own blood, sweat and tears into the product that with Sony's help, do reach a higher end product for everyone playing it.
This aged like milk lol, so disappointed it turned out not to be too great and just looks nice but is janky.
well from what I've seen at least the cinematics / mocap are nice lol
Well knew where this thread was heading.
That said, still interesting to see so many people from Sony getting contracted out. I wasn't aware that Sony was contracting out internal support studios at this scale. Something that I'd like to see Microsoft do too (as in, acquire support studios, then use them internally, and also use them externally when there's time). VASG was in the news recently, no? Was it for this or something else? Not seeing anything in the Era search, but I guess I was probably thinking of the TLOU: Remake situation (though, I still feel there was something more recent than that).
Anyway. This is now TWO Krafton games with SIGNIFICANT 1st party platform support that STILL launch with some issues. The original, of course, being PUBG on Xbox. (Though, to be fair, it seems PS5 is the best platform for the game, by far... and I think we know why lol). So maybe it's just that Krafton and Xbox don't mix lol. Sigh.
That said, still interesting to see so many people from Sony getting contracted out. I wasn't aware that Sony was contracting out internal support studios at this scale. Something that I'd like to see Microsoft do too (as in, acquire support studios, then use them internally, and also use them externally when there's time). VASG was in the news recently, no? Was it for this or something else? Not seeing anything in the Era search, but I guess I was probably thinking of the TLOU: Remake situation (though, I still feel there was something more recent than that).
Anyway. This is now TWO Krafton games with SIGNIFICANT 1st party platform support that STILL launch with some issues. The original, of course, being PUBG on Xbox. (Though, to be fair, it seems PS5 is the best platform for the game, by far... and I think we know why lol). So maybe it's just that Krafton and Xbox don't mix lol. Sigh.
Krafton isnt selling any time soon.
And by your logic Sony and EA are getting closer (wink wink wink).
Jedi Fallen Order credits:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi1ry6r50XI
Over 100 Sony developers as well.