IDK. I still feel there was more to it. You get Ryan talking about not being complacent etc. And it still kinda fits. Like what Is Shu in charge of right now?
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IDK. I still feel there was more to it. You get Ryan talking about not being complacent etc. And it still kinda fits. Like what Is Shu in charge of right now?
I was going to point you to the Playstation suggestion site where you can up vote this but it appears to be down or they killed the site. I'm with you on this for sure. https://share.blog.us.playstation.com/faq/
Shu is in charge or high level management and vision setting for WWS. Things like allocation of budget, how many games to fund, broadly deciding what kind of games to fund, charting out multi year roadmap for WWS games, etc.
Housemarque and Arrowhead would be great. Remedy? Collab game first.
Welcome to the marketing news cycle of creating good news to drown out bad...
Having abilities to do the task isnt the same as having enough resources and time to do it. Shawn wasnt exactly a part time worker.
I never said it was....
Ok I get your point that Shawn obviously managed a lot and had a lot of tasks etc, and that just because Jim is capable of taking over some of the duties doesnt mean he has the resources to do it.
Which is a fair point, but here's the thing...
You're using the assumption that Shawn's duties and responsibilities as chairman were done by him alone, when the reality is that with most large corporations like SIE, management is usually done by a team of executives, and people like in Shawn's position rarely if ever operate independently. Jim Ryan, as well as other upper tier executives all had a hand in managing WWS and its various tasks. This is why consolidating the chairman and CEO roles isn't some improbable task. Many corporations in this day and age don't even have a "chairman" position, as those duties are often overseen by a company's CEO. It wouldn't be the first time nor is it a surprise to see a company like SIE move in that direction.
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Spider-Man is definitely hitting +20 million, hopefully we get an announcement.
Sony provided sales update just two months ago
'Marvel's Spider-Man' For PS4 Has Sold Over 13 Million Units Worldwide
The critically-acclaimed game is now the best selling Super Hero game of all time!
Yeah but that update was there because of Insomniac purchaseSony provided sales update just two months ago
'Marvel's Spider-Man' For PS4 Has Sold Over 13 Million Units Worldwide
The critically-acclaimed game is now the best selling Super Hero game of all time!www.marvel.com
For example, God of War didn't have announcement for passing 10m sold through, we had to do pixel count on a chart to find out that 10.9m numbers
Too bad they do not provide numbers for major milestone to all of their exclusives :/
Arrowhead made Helldivers right, that is really fun co-op game. Do we know if they're making playstation exclusive games next? Between Helldivers and Alienation, I can say I have more fun with Helldivers.
Would love if they get to make AAA ps5 game next. Even Helldivers with over the shoulder camera seems like it'd make a really cool co-op game.
My theory is that Sony does not want to show in public a competition of games (and internal studios) about which one gets to the 5 million or 10 million milestone faster.
Given the relationship all Sony studios have, we can exclude this. They are all probably happy when their bro studios succeed
But competition of games for us to compare, maybe
I think, they just don't want to release numbers for each titles, otherwise for each release, everybody will wait for numbers and they don't want to be « forced » to release them on a regular basis
Word is the they are developing an AAA exclusive for PS5. Same for Housemarque.
I mean, most probably internal studios do not have/care about such competition. I also think they are just happy knowing WWS games find success with sales, number of players, critic and public reception.
But if Sony would tell always when games reach fixed milestones, Internet will create such competition. I guess they are OK seeing players commenting quite often about their favorite studios based on how much they like their games, and not based on how much games sell.
Anyway, Spiderman legs look like the strongest of any Sony first party this gen (or any gen). I don't rule out the possibility of seeing a Spiderman 2 teaser in the PS5 presentation meeting or E3 2020 conference/SoP.
Yeah I agree !
I can see a teaser like that (like they did for Uncharted 4 during PS4 release, originally planned for 2015) if they have a weak line-up planned for PS5 (compared to Halo Infinite + Forza for next Xbox), and I count the Horizon sequel (if the game is planned for early 2021, like inFamous SS early 2014)
Yup, the only internal competition is about the technology/systems/narrative approach etc used to create the game.
I re-watched that Neil Drukmann and Hermen Hulst interview from 2017 where Neil couldn't believe the foliage density Guerilla achieved in HZD.
His immediate thoughts where to go back to his team and tell them they need to surpass that level for ND's next game.
On the other hand all WWS also share their tools and design techniques/solutions so this friendly rivalry and sharing helps create better games moving forward.
Sales comparisons are cool but a surface level comparison for internal competition.
See my post here :) Looks like Arrowhead and Housemarque are both making Sony 1st party games. Arrowhead is doing a 3rd person co-op shooter, as it looks like.
So is Lost Soul Aside going to be released before the PS5 is released? I really can't wait for the game, though I have no idea just how far along the game is.
The front page Kojima interview is interesting. He seems to have done a lot of self financing. I wonder if he's even up for sale given all of that, or if he'll just stay independent with the occasional Sony deal.
I think he was vocal about being independent when he first split off from Konami, but I can't recall the article/interview.
Still, someone with his clout would have no issues remaining independent.
I don't think KojiPro are on the table for acquisition anyway.
Agreed. I think Death Stranding will give his studio additional clout and he'll start making projects based on available deals plus the occasional Sony one.
Hmmmm, fair enough.
They'll probably drip feed us more info about enemy varieties the closer we get to launch day.
I'm quite fond of the sci-fi route, where they can hand-wave away Cordycep mutations as evolution or something.
They could also keep some enemy type as a surprise. At least I would if I were them.
Quick question: is it just members of SIE WWS who received those? Or are there other 3rd party individuals or studios who received them too? 🤔😏
It continues to look really interesting. I can't wait until we get to see more.
Yeah, I'd like this too. I'm a bit of a statistic freak and I like being able to see how long I've been playing, how many bullets fired, accuracy, how long spent jumping/driving/picking nose etc. Although the year-end emails they sent out annoyed me as they were definitely wrong. I remember one claimed I'd spent 40-something hours on Uncharted 4, which was definitely wrong considering I did one play through and played no multiplayer.
What has MS added? I like being able to compare my trophy completion vs. friends, but it could definitely use refinement. The app has a few neat features which I don't think are available on the PS4 itself.
Didnt he reject other deals just to have sony publish the game? It's not like sony was the only offer. Sony's way of developing games vibes with kojima, he'll probably want to continue that rather than have an overbearing publisher.
Kojima said he wants to make more death stranding games after this one, he will probably just be using sony for now for his games because he gets really big budgets from them (although i guess if DS is a critical and commercial hit any pub will throw ridiculous amounts of money at him)
Cordyceps is an actual fungus. I mean they could hand wave it away but there are already 400 species that effect only insects. Once it made the jump to humans infecting other mammals is a far less stretch.
XB1 shows detailed progress of a achievement on a system level. For example, there's a Gears 5 one where you need to kill 500 enemies; on the system UI you can see how many you already kill and how many you have left.
For achievements that require you to do X of Y in a game, they usually have little progress bars to give you an idea how far along you are, so its a nice indicator of how close to unlocking the achievement you are. When it works, I've seen it not work or glitch plenty of times when I used my Xbox One, not sure if one of the hundreds of slow weekly updates fixed that bug though (I'm not a fan of the Xbox One!)
I've actually gone the other way this gen to be honest. I need to just switch off trophies completely (or hide them, whatever) as I've grown completely tired of just how stupid in my eyes they've become. If its not Yakuza, or maybe a Capcom game, I just don't try to get them anymore.
Nice info. I really hope Arrowhead are working on a new Helldivers. It's such a fun game and makes such excellent use of the perspective.
I wonder what RPG Firesprite could be working on. Seeing as Sony doesn't really have many western RPGs in their back-catalogue, my mind goes to something for THQ Nordic (Kingdoms of Amalur?) or Fable for Xbox/Playground (assisting, obviously).
Oh cool; I remember Dying Light did that and I thought it was cool. I would also like it if there was a way to see if you had missed the opportunity for a certain trophy (like something only available in a particular level) so it's easier to keep track of. Something like feeding all the barrels to Trico in The Last Guardian, if you miss one the game informs you the trophy is no longer available as you cannot select levels and have to do the whole game as a complete journey.
New IP as it looks like :)
Cordycep mutations are real. And it is evolving. No reason to hand-wave anything :)
Yet... 😏😉... just kidding. 🤣
I know but that's what I am asking. Are there any other 3rd parties who received these, besides Kojima? 🤔
Hidetaka Miyazaki on Bloodborne 2, his favorite From Software game and more. (Gamespot Brazil)
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Shu if you're reading this, you know what to do.
I feel like the Decima engine is a big anchor keeping Kojima Productions tied to Sony for the foreseeable future. Kojima Pro has done a lot of working and tweaking on engine to get it working just how they want, collaboration has been so significant they even renamed the engine to reflect the Dutch-Japanese link.
Can't imagine Kojima Productions wanting to disregard all that after just 1 game and start from scratch again especially given how much Kojima disliked when it happened the last time.
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