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PlayStation Worldwide Studios |OT6| The only JRPGs we're getting are Jim Ryan Party GIFs
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The amount of new people who joined SMS in the last three months or so is ridiculous. Growing rapidly.
Santa Monica Studio
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Currently 49 open positions.
Hopefully Cory is building a second team to make a new IP while someone else handles GoW: Ragnarok!
While I don't want them to announce games super-early this gen (I think a lot of the silence over the last ~18 months has been as a result of this) a good way to build mega-hype for the PS5 from the very beginning would be to have big trailers for Horizon 2, GoW2 and Spidey 2.
[speculation] Eric Williams to direct God of War 5? [new Cory Barlog tweet]
Speculation on my part but seems like there's a decent chance that Eric Williams will be directing the sequel to God of War (2018) ? He was the person who designed Kratos in the very first game and has worked on every game in the series. Here's a quote from Cory Barlog in another interview...
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Sony is probably regretting turning down Saber offer to make a MP out of Days Gone.
More than that for sure.
Doubt it. They don't care about shoeshorning MP into every game and have been extremely successful with that approach.
I mean, if WWZ managed to sold over 3 million copies and it was an ok-ish title, a well made Days Gone MP with more resources was probably going to be better than WWZ and push Days Gone sales even further.
And? If that wasn't Bend's vision for the game then it is irrelevant. That's not how Sony runs their studios. Which is a great thing.
It's not like a MP mode was going to impact the game in a negative way and "Bend vision for the game" didn't made the next big thing lol
Saber was right at the end, their idea proved to be worthwile and despite not being the next big thing they sold millions of copies
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I would say between 5 and 6 million LTD
Hopefully we get numbers on April(1 year anniversary)
Regardless of your opinion that is how it works and you have no idea how it would have impacted the rest of the game. Resources are finite and tacked on MP is so last gen. It's moot anyway. I doubt they are regretting anything as I said before though.
MM is like really really small
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Dreams review and interview – video game construction kit
GameCentral reviews the new game creation tool from the makers of LittleBigPlanet and talks to creative director Mark Healey about its future.
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MM is like really really small
Dreams review and interview – video game construction kit
GameCentral reviews the new game creation tool from the makers of LittleBigPlanet and talks to creative director Mark Healey about its future.
Yeah, Dreams was and still is really an ambitious project for such a small studio :)
What website is that and how do they get their data? Would be interested to see if they have information about other games.
MM is like really really small
Dreams review and interview – video game construction kit
GameCentral reviews the new game creation tool from the makers of LittleBigPlanet and talks to creative director Mark Healey about its future.
Wow, that really is small. I thought they had opened up a second office in order to grow a bit. No doubt they like being small and nimble because it seems kinda crazy they're not more like double that size. I hope that also insulates them from any closures if Dreams performs below expectations.
Oh nice schools are already interested in Dreams
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Dreams review and interview – video game construction kit
GameCentral reviews the new game creation tool from the makers of LittleBigPlanet and talks to creative director Mark Healey about its future.
metro.co.uk
Healey already said if Dreams will flop, they will make a new game with the engine.
And it will for sure not happen but if Sony would try to close a creative studio like Mm which delivered a meta 90 game, I am sure they would find another publisher.
Yeah makes no sense for Dreams 2
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Dreams review and interview – video game construction kit
GameCentral reviews the new game creation tool from the makers of LittleBigPlanet and talks to creative director Mark Healey about its future.
metro.co.uk
Oh nice schools are already interested in Dreams
Dreams review and interview – video game construction kit
GameCentral reviews the new game creation tool from the makers of LittleBigPlanet and talks to creative director Mark Healey about its future.
Yes, i has thinking about that, why are they not puting this stuff in Schools?
Makes perfect sense.
It impacts development time. AKA Last of Us part 2. WHich was not going to have one at launch, and they explicitly talked about why, but entertained the idea of releasing a standalone mode down the line after the game was released.
Now it looks like they are currently building that, on top of trying to polish the campaign. It adds so much more complexity. Uncharted 4 was another instance where they had to actually re-configure the game to get it running at 60fps for Multiplayer.
MP isn't everything, some of the biggest games Sony has released this gen have no online components. Same can be said about Nintendo as well.
gamstat.com has estimated player numbers to all playstation games, including a lot of side Infos like new players within the last month and share by country.
They calculate those numbers via that playstation service where you can see how many other people have earned a certain trophy in a game.
Imo their numbers have proven relatively accurate. But don't forget that it's player numbers, and not sales.
I don't hate MP, but also don't want it at the cost of the initial design "idea" of the game. If the campaign was meant for to be played with co-op in mind, then I'm cool with that. It's when they shoe horn MP into a single player designed game that's where I think I have issues.
It rarely ends well.
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i really feel that Sony needs two things
- a Shooter (Killzone, Resistance) with good single player and stellar MP and
- a meaty single player Sci-Fi to fill the Mass Effect vacuum, made by either Santa Monica or Naughty Dog. even Bethesda is on the move with Starfield, come on Sony.
Yeah, I agree. They may not have the commercial success in the same way as ND or SMS but they're still just as important in many ways.
Oh cool, I will check it out later. I always like stats on these kind of things.
I don't hate MP, it just interests me far less than SP. If Horizon had been a third person multiplayer game or a Battle Royale game I would have had about 5% of the same level of interest in it.
I have a feeling that Sony Santa Monica next title is actually a first person shooter. For the last year they have hired a lot of developers from FPS studios (Respawn, Bungie, Treyarch, Infinite Ward...) including one of the producers of Apex Legends and Call of Duty:
Guerrilla Games are also rumored to be working on first person shooter, so we shall see.
Yeah, I would love to see Cory handle an FPS and ND to make Savage Starlight. I really feel like the level and encounter design from GoW would transfer well to an FPS. Likewise though, after finishing Uncharted: TLL I thought ND could make an awesome FPS so I wouldn't mind either studio trying to make one.
And I'd also like to see Insomniac make Resistance 4, so maybe I just want everyone to make FPSs!
Remember that Santa Monica is working on a big AAA game too ... And that it is not impossible that these recruitments are linked to the latter insofar as an AAA game requires expertise for everything that is subjective , often.
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Sony Santa Monica studio prépare un gros jeu AAA sur PlayStation VR
Le studio Santa Monica, filiale de Sony travaillerait sur une nouvelle grosse production sur PlayStation VR. Une seconde vague de jeux est aussi évoquée.
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I hope you're right, but one thing to note is that Respawn folk coming to SMS are likely to be from Jedi Fallen Order, many of whom worked at SMS beforehand anyway! It's entirely possible that they're being brought on board to staff up for pre-production or production on GoW2.
I honestly have a hunch that SIE's next studio get might be an mp studio. I'm not quite giving up on Illfonic and Predator just yet.
PlayStation Worldwide Studios |OT7| Time to play, believe in Jimbo and Hulst
I think I know why now. Although, the more I think about it, I realize that SIE will want to secure their momentum and legacy one way or another. Everything will be revealed in due time. Remember, when you're lost in the darkness... look for the light. Believe in Hermen Hulst.
The "EA says single player games are dying" stories really did a number on some people, I reckon.
I hope SSM knows what they're doing by giving directorial reigns of GoW to someone else (if they even are doing that), especially after the debacle that was handing off the franchise to Todd Papy.
Doesn't matter if the director was with the studio since day 1. Cory had a vision with the franchise.
Doesn't matter if the director was with the studio since day 1. Cory had a vision with the franchise.
This is what happens when only one person predominantly does the press run.
Hell My favorite twist in the game didn't even come from cory
I feel like this is unfair to Todd Papy. Ascension wasn't bad, but it told a story which didn't need to be told and was the sixth game in a franchise which was quite tired. But the actual game itself was fine, and not all that much different from GoW3. I think that game's main problem was just mega franchise fatigue.
Come for the optimism, stay for the negativity
Yes, he had a team of writers. No one's denying that. But let's be honest here that you wouldn't have gotten said game if he wasn't around. When you watch the documentary, you can see just how instrumental he was with pushing the franchise to where it is now. The team was against the idea of changing too much and having a kid in there being such an important part of the story. Stig wouldn't have made GoW 2018.
If the events of TLOUII are related to this interpretation of the story and how it affected the relationship between Joel and Ellie, then the game is gonna be absolutely wild.
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