On topic of M&A Sony is not buying anything for gaming. They already said that they are easing on acquisitions besides now is not even a good time for it as gaming as whole is having a recession after Covid.
PlayStation Studios |OT41| Preserving Democracy until the Next Showcase
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We don't know if they are. When the leaks happened there was a mail from Ted Price implying they would prefer to cancel the new Ratchet & new IP and move those veteran devs to Marvel stuff in case they needed to layoff people. And that ended up happening so it's very possible that Ratchet is no more.
nah i am not saying they will acquire something, and nope, seeing everything in the industry is better to stay normal, fix their internal problems, and then acquire when the time is right, and I remember that, they said they will ease in M&A a while ago but that doesnt mean they will nto acquire anything in the future
i think is better to create internal studios like they are doing with the jason blundell team (not announced yet)
Quoting myself since my message got stuck at the end of a page.
Also, I've been playing Dave the Diver for over 30 hours. This is a great game with a really addictive loop. I might go for the platinum since I only have a handful of trophies left.
What would be wrong with that? There are those of us who love to play those kinds of platformers.
Nothing wrong with that. Plenty of small teams in the indie space are creating those types of games. Sucker Punch is a large company that requires a certain amount of profit to stay afloat. Also, Sony wants games that move consoles. Mascot games don't move anything other than Nintendo consoles.
All (mainline) Ratchet and Clank games were developed by independent Insomniac. Also, the last I heard, Ratchet and Clank games aren't exactly lighting up the sales charts (based on the Insomniac leak data). Hopefully Insomniac replaced Ratchet and Clank with a game that a larger audience will get enticed by.
I want more of them too but it's not feasible for a studio the size of Sucker Punch. Someone like Asobi is staffed to make a game like Astro sure.
But Sony's "premiere" studios are going to be more risk-averse this gen and next-gen than ever before.
If the Ratchet & Clank series has gotten so many games, that means the franchise sells well enough. Not everything needs to sell like Spider-Man.
If there isn't a new R&C in the next few years, it would be great if they at least released remastered collections of PS2 and PS3 games. I believe the series gained a lot of new fans with the 2016 game and Rift Apart. I think the main games has aged really well, in terms of both gameplay and visuals. It's a really consistent franchise.
If there isn't a new R&C in the next few years, it would be great if they at least released remastered collections of PS2 and PS3 games. I believe the series gained a lot of new fans with the 2016 game and Rift Apart. I think the main games has aged really well, in terms of both gameplay and visuals. It's a really consistent franchise.
I'm sorry. That is just me venting more than anything. I really wish that there was a stronger market for these types of platformer games on PlayStation. Kena is one of my favorite PS5 games, and it breaks my heart that the games that made the PS2 great (in my opinion), are few and far between now. I wish Sony worked to at least give out the IPs to another studio to make the games if they were done in house. Hopefully Astro Bot helps to scratch that itch a little bit.
Playstation is kind of sitting on a goldmine of potential PS3 era remasters that I feel would sell at least enough to justify their existence, and would be far more preferable to remasters of games like TLOU2 and Horizon.
Imagine Killzone, Resistance and Infamous collections at 4k 60fps. Clean IQ and smooth framerates would drastically improve those games, as many of them still hold up nicely today via PC emulation.
But we'll probabaly just get a GOW 2018 remaster instead.
Imagine Killzone, Resistance and Infamous collections at 4k 60fps. Clean IQ and smooth framerates would drastically improve those games, as many of them still hold up nicely today via PC emulation.
But we'll probabaly just get a GOW 2018 remaster instead.
No worries. I think we all understand. I really think you'd be more than satisfied by the indie space. Though, Ratchet and Clank and Kena visuals aren't common.
View: https://youtu.be/Rv3z4WEQrDc?si=24HZSfEtVtuTbLE_
Another video on indie platformers.
Thanks for the laugh! :)
Hoping for a Sony showcase announcement soon, just so I can hold hope to see some MH Wilds before Summer Game Fest. The excitement of seeing a steady drip of any new MH content is the best. Besides any FROM rumors/teasers.
I'm starting to think this might not be a case of style over substance.
Man, the hit effects/sounds in that combat video are awful. Choppy, weak-sounding impacts, etc. There's no sense of weight or presence, it just looks like visual noise.
That would be my dream!
Well actually PS3 and Vita backwards compatibility on PS5, honoring or old purchases. But I would take remasters from Infamous, Killzone, Resistance, Gow Saga, White Knight chronicles and Ratchet and clank
... slowly skateboarding into what's most likely a non playable section isn't what id call spectacular traversal but sure. Still, hope it turns out good.
They would rather remaster Devil Dice, Cool Borders and Philosoma before they waste another dollar on White Knight Chronicles.
Maybe I'm crazy but I think people would eat this shit up if it was shown at a showcase lol.
Where is Rayman giving up on life at the exact same time I give up on life because Space Mama is my own personal purgatory.
Sony's earnings announcement for FY2023 will be this week. And we'll porbably get the showcase announcement.
By next week you mean this coming week, right?
I think they are going to announce it this week.
It could be early June but late May seems more likely rn. It'll definitely be before SGF if there is one, Sony likes to go first so all eyes are on them
So Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday they usually don't drop stuff on Monday or Friday right?
If it is a state of play then its possible will be announced and coming next week, if its a showcase its possible the announcement its next week and coming the week after, or... No announcement next week... Everything is possible
I was thinking the week after but after looking at the calendar I think it's more likely to be this week. I doubt they would want to hold a showcase the week of Memorial Day.
Anything could happen. For years Sony has not had a fixed pattern of action. So it could be any day this week, next week or postponed to June, who knows.
If the slides from the Insomniac leak end up as planned, we won't be playing another Ratchet & Clank until early in the next decade.
yeah even if they had concept art for it, I believe the leaks had it slated for around the time the PS6 is out
plus the stuff they were saying it was going to have sound like a PS6 feature in terms of technical effort
with AAA and stuff being so bloated and long to develop for I guess we are lucky to be getting one R&C per gen
Sony is spending all its money on non gaming things because gaming is DAYD
Seems like they want to park their capital somewhere. If the right deal came along for gaming they might go for that too.
Having said that, with the way gaming is at the moment, I doubt there's a "right deal" anywhere at the moment.
Arrowhead would make sense, even if it's just to make sure some other company can't come along and offer them a bag to make a multiplatform spiritual successor to Helldivers. But after everything which went down in recent weeks I'm sure there's quite a lot of distrust from Arrowhead to Sony.