Sony PlayStation: First Party Studios |OT4| Because we're skipping 3

[JuanLatino]

Welcome to the fourth (actually third) Sony First Party Thread!

Sony Interactive Entertainment America
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Probably the most famous Studio among SIE, known for constanly delivering high quality blockbuster titles, such as Uncharted or The Last of Us.
The Studio was founded 1984 by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin as an independent developer, starting their Playstation Partnership with the iconic Crash Bandicoot title in 1996.
In 2001 they were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment and in the coming years and generations Naughty Dog became one of the most respected and highly rated Studios in the Gaming Industry.
Naughty Dog is home to the ICE Team, one of Sony's World Wide Studios central technology groups.
The ICE Team focuses on creating core graphics technologies for Sony's worldwide first party published titles, including low level game engine components, graphics processing pipelines, supporting tools, and graphics profiling and debugging tools.

Studio Size: 200~350 (incl. ICE Team)
Location: California
Key People: Evan Wells (President) - Neil Druckman (Vice President)
Director(s): Anthony Newman - Kurt Margeneau - Neil Druckmann
Writer(s): Josh Sherr - Haley Gross
Lead Designer(s): Emilia Schatz - Richard Cambier

Upcoming Project: The Last Of Us Part 2 [2019/20]


Playstation History:

• Crash Bandicoot (1996)
• Crash Bandicoot 2 (1997)
• Crash Bandicoot 3 (1998)
• Crash Team Racing (1999)
• Jak and Daxter (2001)
• Jak II (2003)
• Jak 3 (2004)
• Jak X (2005)
• Uncharted (2007)
• Uncharted 2 (2009)
• Uncharted 3 (2011)
• The Last of Us (2013)
• The Last of Us Remastered (2014)
• Uncharted 4 (2016)
• Uncharted Lost Legacy (2017)

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Sony Santa Monica, also known as the God of War Studio, was established in 1999
While developing the highly acclaimed God of War Games, they were also serving as a support studio for external developers working on First Party Games.
In 2014 the Studio moved from Santa Monica to a new facility in Playa Vista, Los Angeles

Studio Size: 200~300
Location: California
Key People: Shannon Studstill (Head of the Studio) Cory Barlog (Director)

Upcoming Project:

Playstation History:

• Kinetica (2001)
• God of War (2005)
• God of War II (2007)
• God of War III (2010)
• God of War Ascension (2013)
• God of War (2018)

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founded in 1997 Sucker Punch was an independent development studio which has worked solely with Sony Interactive Entertainment since 2000. In 2011 they were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment
Sucker Punch is best known for the Sly Cooper and inFAMOUS series. In 2018 the Studio moved to a new facility, most likely due their team expansion.

Studio Size: 150+
Location: Washington
Key People:

Upcoming Project: Ghost of Tsushima [2019/2020]

Playstation History:

• Sly Racoon (2002)
• Sly 2: Band of Thieves (2004)
• Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (2005)
• Infamous (2009)
• The Sly Collection (2010)
• Infamous 2 (2011)
• Infamous: Festival of Blood (2011)
• Infamous: Second Son (2014)
• Infamous: First Ligh (2014)

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Formely known as Blank, Berlyn and Co. and Eidetic, which was founded in 1993, they were aqcuired by SIE in 2000 and renamed into
Bend Studio and became known as the Team behind the Syphon Filter Franchise. During the Playstation 3 Generation they were mainly working on handheld games
for the PSP and PSVITA. With their new IP Days Gone, they are finally making their big comeback into the Home Console business

Studio Size: 130+
Location: Oregon
Key People: John Garvin (Director) Jeff Ross (Director)

Upcoming Project:

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SIE San Diego was established in 2001. The Studio has a long history with sportsgames from NBA to Karting Games. Currently they are delivering the yearly MLB Games.

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Location: San Diego, California
Key People:

Upcoming Project:

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Established in 2014, Pixelopus is one of the new SIE Studios of this generation. With Entwined they relesead their first game in the same year

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Studio Size: San Mateo, California
Location: California
Key People:
Upcoming Project: Concrete Genie [2019]

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Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
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Guerrilla Games is a Dutch first party developer founded in 2000 as Lost Boys Games. The European Powerhouse Studio and creator of the Killzone Franchise was acquired by SCE in 2005 following the release of Shellshock: 'Nam 67.
In the current Generation they released their ambitious new RPG Title Horizon Zero Dawn & also created their new Decima Engine, which they share with Kojima Productions.
The Team will move to a new five floor office in 2019, planning to expand their team up to 400 People

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Studio Size: 300-400
Location: Amsterdam
Key People: Herman Hulst (Director)
Upcoming Project:

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Media Molecule, The Flagschip Studio of creativity and originality among SIE is a british Studio formed in 2006
by former Lionhead employees. After their big success with Little Big Planet on the Ps3, they became part of the Sony Family in 2010.

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Location: Guildford, Surrey
Key People:
Upcoming Project: Dreams [2020] (Early Access 2019)

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SIE London Studio is one of the oldest First Party Studios, established in 1993.
The Studio was formed in 2002 by the merger of Studio Camden and Team Soho.
They are currently responsible for VR Games
SIE London Studio developed a virtual reality (VR) rendering technology, called the LSSDK engine, which supports PlayStation 4 and PC

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Location: London
Key People:
Upcoming Project: Blood and Truth (VR) [May 2019]

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Not officially revealed yet, Manchester Studio, formerly known as North West Studio, is one of Sony's newest developers.
Based on the job descriptions regarding the Studio, they are working on a high profile VR Game.

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Location: London
Key People:
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Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia
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Founded in 1998 Polyphoni Digital is the First Party Studio behind the Gran Turismo Games, the most successful Playstation Franchise.
Originally a development group within Sony Computer Entertainment known as Polys Entertainment, after the success of Gran Turismo in Japan, they were granted greater autonomy and their name changed to Polyphony Digital.

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Studio Size: ~
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Key People: Kazunori Yamauchi (President)

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SIE Japan Studio was founded in 1993 in Tokyo and is one of the biggest First Party Studios of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Most well known for a wide variety of Genres & Games like ApeEscape, Loco Roco, Shadow of the Collosus or Astro Bot, they are also functioning as a Publisher and support Studio to external Teams, leading to Projects like Bloodborne, Demon Souls or White Knight Chronicles.

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Location: Tokyo, Japan
Key People: Allan Becker (President)

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External Partners
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Studio Size: 260+
Location: Burbank, California (First Studio) North Carolina (Second Studio) [NA]
Key People: Ted Price (President) Bryan Intihar (Director) Brian Allgeier (Director)

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Studio Size:
Location: Tokyo [JP]
Key People: Hideo Kojima (President/Director)

Upcoming Project: Death Stranding [2019/20]

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In Development​

• Monkey King Hero is back (Hexadrive) - Release 2019 (China & West)
• MediEvil (Other Ocean) - Release October 2019
• WILD (WildSheep Studio) - Release TBA
• ERICA (Flavourworks) - Release TBA
• Everybody's Golf VR (Clap Hanz) - Release 2019
• Predator: Hunting Grounds - Release 2020

Former Partners & Possible Collaborations​

Support Teams

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[JuanLatino]

Sony Interactive Entertainment:
Shawn Layden about greenlighting First Party Games - Best,First,Must
Sony improving and increasing First Party Production

New San Diego Studio: (Rumoured)
Sony is Creating a new Developmen Team in San Diego in Collaboration with a Major Studio
Former Naughty Dog Designer returns to Sony
Working on the next Uncharted Game?

New Manchester Studio (Confirmed):
Sony sets up Studio to work on a VR Game
New IP and Ghibli-esque Project

Naughty Dog:
Secret Naughty Dog Casting for a new Game?

Santa Monica Studio:
Cory Barlog (Director of GOW) working on a new IP?
Duncan Jones hinting at Barlogs new Project
Santa Monica building a second team?
Barlog about future GOW Games

Guerilla Games:
GG planning to expand to 400 People and release Games faster
Rainbox Six Siege Game Director and Game Designer joining Guerilla Games working on a unnaounced Project
GG hiring for a new Project

Japan Studio:
Keiichiro Toyama: Right after GR2 I'll work on another new title
Shuhei Yoshida: Now producing lots of unannounced titles.
Japan Studio looking into starting up development on several new titles
Yoshida wants Japan Studio to release Games with japanese creativity

Insomniac Games:
New Ratchet and Clank might be heading to Ps4
Spiderman Sequel already in the works

Others:
Bloodborne 2 Easter Eggs in Deracine (Fromsoftware)
Bluepoint Games next Project will be a Envisioning of a Former Title (Bluepoint Games)

Naughty Dog:

• Uncharted 4 sold 8.7 Mio copies in 2016
• Uncharted series sales passed 41 Mio
• Uncharted 4 was the highest rated Videogame in 2016 -> Metascore 93
• Uncharted 4 won 165 GOTY Awards
• The Last of Us sold more than 17 Mio copies
• The Last of Us P2 among the 2 most watched E3 Trailers of E3 2018
• highest average career score among the SIE Studios

Santa Monica:

• God of War is the most watched Trailer on the Playstation Channel
• God of War is the highest rated Playstation Exclusive in this Generation -> Metascore 94
• GOW is the fastest selling Playstation Exclusive (after Spiderman)
• GOW is the fastest and best selling title in the Franchise with 5 Mio sales in the first month
• God of War won Best Direction, Best Action Adventure & Game of the Year at the Game Awards
• God of War has won the most GOTY Awards in 2018 -> 198

San Diego Studio:

• MLB: The Show 18 set a franchise record for first month sales
• MLB: The Show 19 set a genre sales record
• The MLB Franchise has a average Metascore of 83 in this Generation [83,80,85,85,82]

Guerilla Games:

• Horizon was the best Guerrilla debut ever, selling twice as much as their second best debut, Killzone 2.
• As of April 30th, Horizon Zero Dawn sold over 3.4 Mio Copies
• One Year after its Launch, HZD sold over 7.6 Mio Units Worldwide
• Two Years after its Launch, HZD sold well over 10 Mio Copies
• With an Metascore of 89, Horizon Zero Dawn is among the 5 highest rated Playstation Games of 2017

Media Molecule:

• Average career score of 83 on Metacritic

Insomniac Games:

• Ratchet and Clank was the most successful Insomniac Game ever before the Release of Spiderman
• Spiderman sold 3.3 Mio Copies in 3 Days -> Fastest Selling Playstation Exclusive breaking Records
• Spiderman most watched 1st Party Trailer of all time
• 4 Months after Launch, Spiderman has sold over 9 Mio Copies

Japan Studio:

• Astro Bot highest rated VR Game with a Metascore of 90 (as of 2018)
• Astro Bot won Best VR Game 2018 at the Game Awards

Others:

• Shadow of the Collosus Remake almost doubles sales of Original (Bluepoint Games)
• Bloodborne sales surprised Sony (Fromsoftware)
• Until Dawn Sales better than expected (Supermassive Games)

 

[Betty]

Best OT title won.

 

[patapon]

Woohoo!

 

[Acquiescence]

Skipping OT3 for OT4? That just makes the PlayStation brand look more popular on Era than it actually is.

 

[WillySJ3]

Oh yeah, that's the best OT tittle

 

[WillySJ3]

Skipping OT3 for OT4? That just makes the PlayStation brand looking more popular on Era than it actually is.

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Just like skipping E3.... Get it now?

 

[Mani]

My eyes are ready for the end gen ND visual goodness.

 

[goonergaz]

I like the OT, but surely it should be 5 because it'll be more relevant :P

 

[Acquiescence]

Just like skipping E3.... Get it now?

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I'm fully aware what the joke is, yes.

 

[Fat4all]

wait a goddamn second



sony makes video games now?

 

[Femto0]

Here we go boys finally 4th ehm 3th first party thread

 

[Gerwant]

Naughty Dog - Upcoming Project: The Last Of Us Part 2 [2020]
Insomniac - Upcoming Project: [2020]
Guerrilla - Upcoming Project: [2019/2020]

JuanLatino - this guessing is unnecesary, I think.

 

[JuanLatino]

Naughty Dog - Upcoming Project: The Last Of Us Part 2 [2020]
Insomniac - Upcoming Project: [2020]
Guerrilla - Upcoming Project: [2019/2020]

JuanLatino - this guessing is unnecesary, I think.

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oops thats a mistake in terms of Insomniac and Guerilla Games. That Spot should be empty

 

[Acquiescence]

I love that Japan Studio banner. Erase Knack from memory and they've had a pretty good gen - The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush are two of my favourite games of the gen. Won't play Astro Bot until Christmas, but I'm sure I'll like it a lot also.

 

[TheRulingRing]

This OT should last us a couple years at the current rate.

 

[Martl]

Top notch OT!

 

[Segafreak]

I feel next gen starts with a Demon's Souls Remake, followed by a Bloodborne 4K60 Remaster, and then ultimately Bloodborne 2! With the Dark Souls Trilogy getting a 4K60 BC update I feel PS5 is gonna be the ultimate Soulsborne platform.

 

[bombshell]

That title lol

Can't wait for The Last of Us 2, Death Stranding, Dreams, Days Gone, MediEvil and Ghost of Tsushima! Not a bad lineup from a supposedly complacent company...

 

[Tratorn]

Great OP as always. :)
And glad that the best thread title won the survey!

 

[Stinkinmushroom]

Hmm my idea of |OTNoE3| wasn't used, i thought people liked it lol

 

[Cyclopsfire21]

Great job OP and fantastic thread title

 

[Minilla]

Fantastic job as always Juan, great stuff

 

[Saint-14]

Is Horizon an RPG?

 

[WhiteNovember]

Is Horizon an RPG?

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... Yes?

An action Rpg and not as deep as games like Baldurs Gate or even the Witcher, but I would say it is a Rpg.

 

[MarsipanRumpan]

Lets go! Stoked about a new OT! Lets get some positivity going for once, bring on the new dawn!

Whats everyones most anticipated game announced for PS4?

 

[WhiteNovember]

oops thats a mistake in terms of Insomniac and Guerilla Games. That Spot should be empty

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You put some info about Gow into the Guerilla part. Otherwise great Ot.

 

[VivekTO]

You have Put God of war winning GOTY under Guerrilla Games. Nice OT btw!!

 

[twisted heart]

Nice OT also Technicolor is working on a Sly Cooper TV series episodes 1-26 are set to launch in October 2019, while numbers 27-52 have a debut date of July 2020 each episode is 11 minutes. I'm hoping PlayStation will also launch a new game with it as well whether it be Sly 5 or one based on the animated series.

 

[Nagito]

New thread smell.

 

[Lukemia SL]

This thread's gonna be a good one.

 

[Electro]

Missing Cygames at 3rd party developers, Firesprite and Tarsier Studios should be possible partners.

 

[TheRulingRing]

Is Horizon an RPG?

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When's Death Stranding on PC?

 

[Super Barrier]

Just like skipping E3.... Get it now?

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Cheesy but I love it.

 

[Quintus]

I like the OT, but surely it should be 5 because it'll be more relevant :P

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By the pace we're getting news from them don't worry we'll get to OT5 by Q1-Q2 2020 when PS5 will be announced.

 

[Pfroebbel]

Wow, great OT! Thanks

 

[Saint-14]

When's Death Stranding on PC?

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Is there anyway Days Gone won't disappoint?

 

[iamandy]

Great jog! Great title!

 

[Temascos]

Perfect title and perfect OP, love it!

I welcome hundreds of pages speculating about Arrogant Sony and it's no games in development :P

I kid, the next two years have a lot coming out on the PS4 in terms of first party stuff, now we just gotta know the dates!

 

[DigSCCP]

Best OT since Gaf times still best OT!
Thanks Juan Latino!

 

[Donthizz]

bye bye E|OT3|. he he

on a serious note, GG now has more employees than ND ha?

 

[FelipeMGM]

Missing Cygames at 3rd party developers, Firesprite and Tarsier Studios should be possible partners.

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None of those Cygames PS4 titles are being published by Sony though

 

[goonergaz]

By the pace we're getting news from them don't worry we'll get to OT5 by Q1-Q2 2020 when PS5 will be launched.

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corrected ;)

 

[Pharaoh]

Brilliant title. Nice job with the OP.

 

[Nakenorm]

Subbed! Great OT

 

[Saint-14]

None of those Cygames PS4 titles are being published by Sony though

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I don't think we know who is publishing them yet in the west.

 

[orochi91]

lol @ title

 

[ArmGunar]

Finally a new OT, love that title

 

[Lys Skygge]

I'm really happy you decided to go with this OT title. So good 😂

 

[Dr Pears]

Bloodborne 2 when?