Agree with this. Just speaking for myself here but there are enough similarities where I will just end up waiting for The Last of Us Part 2 to get my post apocalyptic fix with similar kind of setting and 3rd person gameplay(not counting quality of gameplay) . About the only thing that would convince me to get Days Gone is the ability to ride around with a friend.
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Agree with this. Just speaking for myself here but there are enough similarities where I will just end up waiting for The Last of Us Part 2 to get my post apocalyptic fix with similar kind of setting and 3rd person gameplay(not counting quality of gameplay) . About the only thing that would convince me to get Days Gone is the ability to ride around with a friend.
Not to be a jerk, but remember those people on early ps3 gen that uncharted was Sony's response to gears because it was a tps? That's actually a more accurate sentiment than days gone and last of us being similiar
GTFO with that crap! I hope is more of a Nioh/Ninja Gaiden combat.
Dude....Sony owns the spiderman movie IP exclusively still. Do as much googling as you want, it will always come back that answer
Dreams is one I'm thinking is 2018. Unlike Days Gone, they officially announced it for 2018, blog post and all, after its re-reveal.
No surprise. In fact it has 20 hours of more pure gameplay than the previous ones. I can't wait for the previews to finally shut the ''walking simulator'' concerns down.
Fantastic stuff. Really happy to hear this. Can't wait to he blown away by GOW
Aye that's great then. I forgot Ghost of Tsushima so replace for Spring 2019. Dreams shouldn't release any later than September 2018 if 2018 still the goal.
Glad I can make you feel better. =P
Here's the blog post, btw: https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/12/07/watch-the-new-trailer-for-dreams-launching-in-2018/
Let's imagine that Spider-Man on the PS4 is a huge success.
Is there any chance that Disney might reach to Sony to make an awesome single player Star Wars game? Is clear EA wont deliver one.
Or is it too unrealistic to imagine that?
Is there any chance that Disney might reach to Sony to make an awesome single player Star Wars game? Is clear EA wont deliver one.
Or is it too unrealistic to imagine that?
I don't think they can. EA has an exclusive contract for console SW games.
For how long?
Plus sony already have the creative director bewind Star Wars 1313, Dominic Robilliard.
Perfect fit.
I completely agree with this.
That they do, and they loaned Disney Spiderman to use in Civil War, so now they have their exclusive game. Pat your back, you pat ours scenario.
That contract will expire in a few years.
I do think it is unrealistic at this point. Sony does not have a first party studio to spare, and their usual go-to third party studios are not equipped to handle it (if Spider-man is a success insomniac will be busy with that).
It would basically require one of the big first party studios to be in the process of figuring out what they want to do next and having trouble doing so, and they would have to be open to doing a star wars game as well. You won't just see Sony abandon a new IP (or a sequel to a successful IP) being made just because Star Wars is on the table, unless it's in really troubled development.
So yeah, it is a bit unrealistic imo.
I think we'll be seeing star wars branch out to a bunch of third parties once the EA exclusivity contract is up.
Good, this alleviates some of my worry.
I figured there wouldn't be any gameplay.
It's Star Wars. If Disney put it on the table for Sony, there is no way they would say no.
The Star Wars name alone is enough to sell millions.
The female bear character was even featured in the Women's Day 2018 PS4 theme Sony released. Its definitely coming later this year, Im betting Sony will try to market it as a holiday family game with a November release.
I'm a Dreams optimist but even I know if it's not out by early and I mean like first 5- days of September you pull a days gone on that bad boy
They would say no if all their good studios are deep in development of an existing game. You need to put a shit ton of money behind these games, and it isn't as simple as "well just cancel that other game you've spent 50 million dollars on already and spend 100 million making this brand new game now). There are other factors. IP ownership is a huge one. Star Wars may be a terrific one and done, gangbusters seller, but if Sony can't make it again due to not owning the IP, potentially scrapping a game that could be the next uncharted, last of us, gow, horizon etc is worse than saying no to a star wars game.
Spider-Man happened because Insomniac is a well-equipped studio that has a good relationship with Sony that is not obligated to work on Sony titles. So not only is Spider-Man a big get, having insomniac be working on a big scale exclusive game like that is good for Sony as well.
There isn't any other external dev that Sony has a good relationship that is well equipped for a star wars game, so it'd have to be one of sony's big internal studios to handle it, and for that to happen, some scenario that I mentioned in my previous post would need to apply imo, rather than it being a case of "screw your game that's shaping up well which you've spent years developing x studio, you're making star wars now".
This is all assuming that Disney is actually smarter this time after this whole EA Star Wars thing, and isn't giving out full on exclusive Star Wars license to a single publisher for a set amount of years. But moreso licensing on a game by game basis.
If for instance, Sony is given an offer to have the license that will last nearly an entire generation, that's a super different story.
They seem to be doing the same marketing approach they did with Horizon. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to almost be the same. We saw the same reveal video or two for a long time before the blowout with Horizon.
It will be 3h of Kratos and Atreus cutting down a tree and building the boat.
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They did the same type of rollout for Horizon so I imagine so
We saw a lot of gameplay for horizon. The introduction was a long demo(introducing basic concepts) and than that's when they become different marketing wise. Horizon got a story trailer before e3 with release date,another demo at e3(again long demo, showed the map, a mount, the world, crafting material and crafting in a menu itself,dialogue trees etc,more footage at pro event, I even remember tgs new footage.
I could have sworn we saw that same Thunderjaw video for months and months before getting more snippets of anything else closer to launch, and a newer one was the same exact scene but a different approach to it (not much different though).
Most games have previews before release so it's not really indicative of anything. Reviews a few days before release are a good sign tho.
We only saw the thunderjaw twice, once at e3 than they did a more in-depth thing at pgw
Pls no. The world doesn't need another combo hack n' slash. I really hope we would get a more realistic approach to things, or even a cool looking Batman: Arkham copy.
Right, but we had nothing until closer, right?
GoW had its reveal which was akin to Thunderjaw with the giant Troll. Then they had another gameplay one showing the environment can be used to help you, and they also had a Story Trailer.
I am sure the week coming up there will be more of a blowout. They are marketing MLB The Show heavy right now, and that will be shipping very soon, so then all the focus will be GoW next week and beyond I assume.
SP's games have always had a really fast-paced, arcadey feel to them so it's going to be so interesting to see how they handle movement and combat in GoT.
The difference here is gow is out next month. In horizons case you had 4 different gameplay videos to take a look at to get a sense of how it played months and I mean months before it was out
Would Disney be willing to give Sony the same exclusivity as they've given EA? If EA's contract expires in 2023, that means they would've signed a 10 year deal. I think that's the only way Sony would agree to something like that. Otherwise what point is there in them building up the SW brand if other companies can simultaneously make SW games?
You're right, now I remember.
I also get that, they had to sell you on a new IP, GoW is pretty much a Playstation household name. The videos will be coming.
Yes but good previews one month before the release helps boost pre orders and shows they are confident about the game, i guess
You know what's interesting, is SOF Studios, who is making an indie game that's supposed to cater to the SOCOM community is able to get away with falsely claiming their game is in fact a SOCOM game.
Look at this tweet for example: https://twitter.com/sofstudios/status/972537680079867909
That's from the studios official twitter account. Can studios get away with something like this?? It just seems crazy to me, because this game looks so awful in quality and I would not want it being passed off as my IP if I'm Sony.
Look at this tweet for example: https://twitter.com/sofstudios/status/972537680079867909
That's from the studios official twitter account. Can studios get away with something like this?? It just seems crazy to me, because this game looks so awful in quality and I would not want it being passed off as my IP if I'm Sony.
The same reason why Sony is making a Spider-Man game. Eventually that IP will go multiplatform. Because of money. The name alone garantees being a multi million seller. And no Publisher would say no to it.
And imagine how it would be for a Star Wars being announced at E3 that would be exclusive for an PS console.
Kinda. Sony Pictures used to own all the merchandising rights to their movies, so Activision licensed Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 from them. But a few years ago (I'm not sure exactly when but it was a couple years before the MCU deal), Sony sold all the movie merchandising rights (including game adaptations) back to Disney. So Sony only have the movie rights now and Disney has complete control over game licensing.
Alright. I'm not really sure what would be an obvious answer though, so you should maybe just take some of the studios named here and throw them at your friend or something.
It keeps being said that Spider-Man will eventually go multiplatform but I honestly wonder how anyone can believe Marvel went to Sony first? EA took up Star Wars and I find it hard to believe Marvel did not go to all the 3rd parties for Spider-Man. I definitely think Sony was the choice AFTER every 3rd party that could make an AAA Spider-Man game told Marvel to fuck off. This is all speculation but it's crazy for me to think Marvel did not right from the start, want the biggest userbase possible in terms of a multiplatform release. The only other 3rd party which I think could have said yes was Square Enix but hearing about their Avengers game, it seems very online focused.
In term of IP ownership, I think Sony are one company that really don't fuck around with that. The biggie here for me is Death Stranding, at best Sony were willing to put the game on PC but even that has died out but from the time it was announced (?) Sony owned the IP. If nothing else, they definitely own the IP now. Which is why I think Sony did not go begging for Spider-Man, Marvel would have been pretty desperate so think the terms would have been in Sony's favour. Be that licensing costs, how long they get Spider-Man for etc, that is a list that could go on forever.
Disney know they are shit tier in terms of making their own games, they have bailed out of the market besides licensing for a reason.
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