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[Jason Schreier] Sony’s Obsession with Blockbusters is Stirring Unrest in the PlayStation Empire
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It's in the article and in the first post? One team at Bend is helping out on ND's 'multiplayer game' and another team is is working on a new game of their own (instead of working on Uncharted).
They are really burring the lead here, this article is mostly about there being a TLOU remake and it has internal struggles like a ton of games. All this they aren't investing in smaller devs is basically commentary but there isn't much in that story. Small studio trying to make a name for themselves probably shouldn't just make a recent remake that no one asked for. Everything that went on with that story seems natural for a game that has that stature.
as for Days Gone 2, I hope Bend gets a chance to work on their own.
as for Days Gone 2, I hope Bend gets a chance to work on their own.
lol if you think people are actually reading the article before commenting.
I can't see how you came to that conclusion given that we find out
freakers can retain human intelligence and it takes place in the wider Syphon Filter universe
Even if they just did a boilerplate story, the PS5 tech would have expanded the horde gameplay to astronomical levels which alone would make a sequel worth it
Yeah, for sure. I'm just saying it's biggest risk is justifying the cost, it's going against a genre where you can get literally dozens of quality titles (one of which being almost unanimous goty last year) for like $15-20. Even here on Era you see lots of people who are excited, but need to be really convinced to pay the premium. I'm one of them to be honest. Returnal is $90 CAD. I'm open to the idea of the game being worth the money, but I'm gonna need to hear some impressions of it offering enough content to justify it.
I guess what I'm saying is it's not fair to put that much pressure on Returnal as the thing to buy to support new IP, because honestly it kind of seems like Sony is doing Returnal a little dirty by releasing it at premium price. It's not so much a judgment on the quality of the game, I just think the game isn't being set up to succeed. The onus shouldn't be on the consumer to pay the premium, it should be on Sony to have a smarter release strategy.
But who knows, maybe the game releases and it has a value proposition that completely justifies being a full price game, I don't know!
TLOU2 can't even get a damn PS5 patch but they got a TLOU remake in the works? Some nonsense. But I imagine they wanna get that out to coincide with the HBO show premiere.
TLOU campaign was kind of whatever for me, and I haven't really been interested in grabbing the sequel.
But.
If TLOU gets re-released 100 times, I'll buy it 100 times. That multiplayer experience is so goddamn amazing it's worth every penny. Bring it on, a remake with 120fps Factions? I die.
But.
If TLOU gets re-released 100 times, I'll buy it 100 times. That multiplayer experience is so goddamn amazing it's worth every penny. Bring it on, a remake with 120fps Factions? I die.
Absolutely am but, to be fair, this article is about Sony's own studios and Housemarque aren't a Sony studio.
If Returnal bombs then Sony can't absorb Housemarque into Naughty Dog and put them on helping out TLOU2 multiplayer or whatever.
Yeah that's there, gonna last me a bit but the outlooks beyond that is bleak for my tastes when it comes to new shit
Days Gone is garbage, so I won't lose any sleep over a cancelled sequel.
The Naughty Dog news are far more worrying.
At this point I believe everyone was expecting a new IP from them. But nope, too risky.
This gen we're only going to get sequels upon sequels upon sequels. Oh, and moneyhatted timed exclusives, how could I forget those.
Modern Sony is a joke.
But those growing increasingly unsatisfied with Playstation's current direction were told they were over reacting.
Playstation will ultimately be fine and the PS5 a whopping success, but they're clearly bleeding creativity, charm, and enthusiast trust. What's happening is the cynical read on someone like Herman Hulst taking over WWS from someone with Shu's sensibilities.
Playstation will ultimately be fine and the PS5 a whopping success, but they're clearly bleeding creativity, charm, and enthusiast trust. What's happening is the cynical read on someone like Herman Hulst taking over WWS from someone with Shu's sensibilities.
Really interesting read. Don't have much to add but I feel bad for VASG. Not getting to work on something that's definitively yours at the end of the day sucks. Absolutely no chance Sony would've let an unproven team make a whole new IP and using a TLOU remake as a stepping stone to take on further projects down the line wouldn'tve worked out either as the cost of game dev have only just gone up. That's money that could be put into the next blockbuster ND or Guerilla project for example. A project that is guaranteed to print money. Same reasoning why Japan Studio was folded I guess.
Starting to think Sony's strategy for having Japanese oriented portfolio is just paying for 1 year exclusivities ala Final Fantasy, Forspoken or Nioh (PC).
But if Days Gone 2 isn't happening, that makes the upcoming PC port inexplicable because I was told PS games only come to PC to bait PC gamers into buying a console for the sequel to said ported game.
I hope they remake TLoU and make every character look like the actor in the upcoming HBO show, that would be really cool and everybody would love it.
It's a little strange but to diminish Last of Us Parts 2 changes to crawling and AI is not something I agree with.
As someone who finished a replay of TLOU the day before Part 2 they feel like night and day to me.
Thassss crazy. I'm assuming you missed one of the endings LOL.
I don't think it's so weird for Sony to focus on their big brands yet they should have studios try out new things too. The balance is important. If they're doubling down on only their big brands and studios I fear they will not be able to sustain their business at the level they're at now. People like PS because of variaty and breath of content. If we'll get less games and mostly block busters, I'm against this approach. Too soon to say how everything will play out though.
I mean they're now supporting it and are pumping resources into it
Maybe they shouldn't go all-in (and frankly, with games like Returnal GT7 and R&C, they are not in my eyes), but again, the question is : why wouldn't they? This is not only a breadwinner, this is what makes them different from the competition (from a software point of view). This is market positionning, "Come here for our prestige single-player games, stay for all the third party stuff".
MS took another strategy (which might be paying in the long run), but it doesn't mean Sony or Nintendo should follow it.
I'm not sure I like their focus on just blockbuster titles. What about the quirky A-AA games?
Sony feels a little more soul-less nowadays.
Sony feels a little more soul-less nowadays.
You probably can't, given that Horizon is basically one of the best selling new IPs of it's generation.
Truthfully? It's too similar to the last of us and Sony doesn't need the inference in thier quest in making it a brand. Plus, they don't want competition with their golden child, or I should say dog.
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Exactly, people are kind of agreeing with Sony for not supporting this project, which is kind of hilarious. people are missing the point of the article so hard.
Were you expecting Naughty Dog to work on the Bloodborne patch?
If they're actually remaking games less than 10 years old, why on earth is it TLOU when it's already had a remaster and not Bloodborne? You know, the game fans have been craving a remaster for and could actually use some work.
I'm not quite at "Fuck off Jim Ryan", but I'm real close at this point.
I'm not quite at "Fuck off Jim Ryan", but I'm real close at this point.
Remember when in 7th gen every publisher, developer and their moms chased after CoD money and nothing else mattered, while Japanese companies outsourced their games to American teams because they thought no one would've bought their games otherwise? That's like everyone's favourite time in gaming, right?
It feels like modern Sony is kind of becoming like a parody of that period. It's not even funny though.
It feels like modern Sony is kind of becoming like a parody of that period. It's not even funny though.
This is true, but we can only go by track records I guess. I've seen support for franchises after duds from the likes of Nintendo, Microsoft, and SEGA in the past.
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