Taken out from this extensive Polygon article on Kowloon Nights:
Main excerpt:
Someone quickly call Ueda with bags of money.
Main excerpt:
Someone quickly call Ueda with bags of money.
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Fumito Ueda/genDesign's new game is wrapping up its prototype phase - looking to sign with a larger publisher
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Why? It didn't seem he particularly enjoyed working there towards the end.
I didn't know that, details?
In that case Microsoft should give him all the money. Someone give him all the money.
(I can imagine 505 jumping in here)
I don't think anyone really knows but creatively Japan Studios took a back seat while Sony's western studios were going through a period of creative growth. My guess is he felt like he couldn't do much in that environment at the time so he left and contracted to finish Last Guardian.
I personally don't care if it releases on all consoles but I do hope it comes out on PS4/5. Don't get me wrong, I'd get it on Xbox but I mostly play on my PS4 so if it''s on there that is where I will get it.
Both Sony and him have said they still valued their relationship and not many other publishers would have nearly been as supportive of TLG as Sony was. Helps Shuhei and Ueda go back to when he first started at Sony.
I don't think Sony will invest in that, I think He left Sony because of problems with the Last Guardian do not remember well.
Because he takes forever to finish games and when he finally does, they don't make enough money to cover the costs. But if MS is interested in a funding sink they can have at er.
Lmao if you think Sony is ever going to fund anything Japanese that isn't Kojima/From/low budget/VR
He didn't enjoy working in a big team, yet came back to finish his game with them when he had less management responsibilities.
Beside, he's looking for someone to pay the bills, not someone to work for.
Good to know things are going smoothly. I have no reason to believe it'll be anything less than another masterpiece. And somehow, despite each game being incredible, they only seem to get better (at least in my opinion).
Day one, whatever it is.
Day one, whatever it is.
It doesn't look like he's making a big budget game, he specifically mentioned not liking it when TLG team got way bigger than ICO/SotC team. He isn't going to leave just to make his own big production team after TLG.
TLG was in development for 9 years. I would assume there was a lot of stress, frustration, and pressure working at SCEJ during Sony's roughest years while breaking his back trying to figure out how to use Cell and make a game that lives up to SotC. I think most people would have peaced out of that
That's why this is a good get for Sony or Microsoft (not so much smaller publishers like 505). Not all projects they back should be initiated with profit in mind, in this case Ueda's games bring value to the platform and brand as a whole.
TLG was a success for Sony even after the years of delays and development issues. Ueda wasn't actively developing the game with a full team the entire time. In the first month alone TLG sold more than the entire lifetime sales of Ico + the first 8 months of sales for SotC which was a $40 game at launch.
He hasn't been for years. He came back to finish TLG as a contractor but has had his own development team since 2014 I think?
Good to know it's been going well for them.....wonder if Sony will be willing to step up after The Last Guardian.
I'd like for a big publisher to get on this, that way we all get to play it. Wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
To be fair, TLG took 9 years and deep down never got released.
I dont think Sony has a lot of confidence in Japan Studios besides from, square etc..
But Phil is looking to acquire a Japanese studio. This is just about one project.
You can thank Ken Kutaragi for that who didn't care about game developers more than his future vision.
Kinda likely.
Ueda left Sony 8 years ago. genDesign, Ueda's office, isn't really a dev studio. They are creating prototypes and concepts for games. So they still need a development studio to develop the game.
It's really a miracle TLG survived this period of time.
Bandai Namco seems good fit btw. I hope it happens.
TLG wasn't a huge commercial success. I think it only sold around 1.5m units worldwide.
Given a 10+ year development I can't imagine that Sony will be in a particular hurry to finance another game without some strong assurances that it can be done in a reasonable timescale.