Sony's Gamescom Media Briefing On "Release Plans for PlayStation 4"

TetraGenesis said:
Not an insider, haha, sorry. Just a theory. I believe it was Mort that said something like, "Housemarque will bring Stardust and there is also good news." I've thought for a while that the "good news" will be that Housemarque joined WWS.
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It's indeed a good theory. Housemarque seems to be with Sony for the entire generation. Worries me that in 5 years down the line they could go Liverpool.
 
Ciastek3214 said:
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Am I doing this right?
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Hahahahaha
 
Juan29.zapata said:
It's indeed a good theory. Housemarque seems to be with Sony for the entire generation. Worries me that in 5 years down the line they could go Liverpool.
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Shit, now I'm sad. I do like to think that Sony takes care of their own, and for the most part they do, but Liverpool proves that it doesn't always last.
 
Samyy said:
Honestly if that was it I would be soooo happy because I wouldnt need another game for a long time. Games like that are perfect when your in school for those 10-15minute breaks.
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Stardust HD was a lifesaver my sophomore (I think) year of college, I can sympathize.

I go to my Vita for that fix now. If they announce it as cross platform (4/Vita)... #dies
 
TetraGenesis said:
Stardust HD was a lifesaver my sophomore (I think) year of college, I can sympathize.

I go to my Vita for that fix now. If they announce it as cross platform (4/Vita)... #dies
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Maybe thats the good news :D
See this is so much better when you have no idea whats going to happen
 
TetraGenesis said:
No idea. As an addendum to push the idea that Sony has a powerful and growing stable of first party developers? Don't know :/ I wouldn't normally expect something like that but multiple comments have been made about Housemarque having some other "good news" that is not a game announcement.
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Who else have said that Housemarque has other good news besides famousmortimer?
 
Verendus said:
I'm starting my trip now. Out of town today, then off to Germany tomorrow. The first big gaming event I'm going to. Pretty exciting since it feels a little fresh. It's going to be a good show from the looks of it. Vita finally getting a little love too. It'll be treated as Cinderella (like crap that means) soon after so the world isn't really ending.

On the question of what is Sony preparing for next year. One big game a quarter. Infamous taking one slot obviously. Others coming after. Then a smattering of smaller titles here and there.

Rocksteady's next game will also have some exclusives for the PS4.
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If it's a way to apologize for not putting Batman Arkham Origins on next-gen... then I'm fine with Rocksteady giving PS4 some exclusive (while timed) gifts. :D
 
Verendus said:
They have five notable ones. But I think the question you're asking is, 'Does Sony have any notable Western exclusive?' The answer is they have one which is going to be considered pretty goddamn huge when it's unveiled.


You'll know this year potentially. If not, then expect them at Sony E3 2014.
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First, is the game from a well known first party studio or third party studio studio?

Second related to Rocksteady next project, will it be exclusive (either timed or permanent) content or an exclusive game?

Phoenician_Viking said:
Can someone tell me how many second party studio does SCEE have and the names of those studios?
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If you are talking about studios, they have none. Since, all 2nd party studios are independent studios. If you are talking about projects/games, then you have Quantic Dream's rumored PS4 titled "Singularity", Ready-At-Dawn "The Order 1886", Ovosonico's Sony-funded and published project, Housemarque next projects with one being for PS4, Tarsier next project and Sanzaruu Games rumored PS4 title "Sly 5" (possibly cross-gen).
 
Verendus said:
They have five notable ones. But I think the question you're asking is, 'Does Sony have any notable Western exclusive?' The answer is they have one which is going to be considered pretty goddamn huge when it's unveiled.


You'll know this year potentially. If not, then expect them at Sony E3 2014.
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I hope Agent from Rockstar lol.
 
Big 3rd party western exclusive? I don't see established brands being in the mix.

Some new I.P that will end up being timed exclusive, maybe from Epic. There isn't a whole lot of options, and I hope "pretty goddamn huge" doesn't end up being "online shooter" which it will.
 
Can Crusher said:
Big 3rd party western exclusive? I don't see established brands being in the mix.

Some new I.P that will end up being timed exclusive, maybe from Epic. There isn't a whole lot of options, and I hope "pretty goddamn huge" doesn't end up being "online shooter" which it will.
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Shooters are clearly console defining in America so yea well thats what happens
 
TetraGenesis said:
Shit, now I'm sad. I do like to think that Sony takes care of their own, and for the most part they do, but Liverpool proves that it doesn't always last.
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You make games that are commercial failures, you close. Doesnt matter if they are part of sony.

Lets face it. The only good thing Liverpool did was wipeout, and that was getting formulaic with each release.
 
I read a post today somewhere that had a video outlining that we may get a PS plus promotion of buy o e year get a few months free or something. Is this something that may be announced at Gamescom or am I dreaming?
 
Verendus said:
They have five notable ones. But I think the question you're asking is, 'Does Sony have any notable Western exclusive?' The answer is they have one which is going to be considered pretty goddamn huge when it's unveiled.
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These are PS4 exclusives you're talking about and not PS4/PS3 or PS4/Vita games?When are these exclusives supposed to be unveiled anyway?
 
bobbytkc said:
You make games that are commercial failures, you close. Doesnt matter if they are part of sony.

Lets face it. The only good thing Liverpool did was wipeout, and that was getting formulaic with each release.
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That was not the problem with the studio or the franchise. It just seems to SCE that futuristic racing games are not as popular as it used be when F-Zero was still there. It will come back when SCE firmly believes in bringing it to its rightful place... as a pillar franchise. :D

Sid said:
These are PS4 exclusives you're talking about and not PS4/PS3 or PS4/Vita games?
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In a topic about release plans for PS4, I think it would be fair to assume that he's talking about PS4 here. Then again, based on the context of the reply, it seems that those five are indeed PS4-bound/related anyway, but with the 30 first party games planned across PS4, PS3 and PS Vita, it does not kill the possibility of having cross-gen/buy (PS4/PS3 or PS4/Vita) or full exclusivity games (PS4 new Ips?) I hope SCE WWS does not have any major PS3 exclusives coming next year, I seriously want to move to PS4 after Beyond Two Souls and Batman Arkham Origins. Keep the fresh ideas for PS4... :D

Verendus' possible 5 notable PS4 exclusive (All Third Parties)

1. Deep Down (working title? Publisher: Capcom / Dev: Capcom Online Games)
2. Agent (if this project is still alive. Publisher: Take-Two/Rockstar / Dev: Rockstar North)
3. Rocksteady next project? or Square Enix Japan related project? (wishful thinking I know... :P)
4.? (rumored to be the next Yakuza. Publisher: Sega / Dev: Sega)
5.? (rumors. Publisher: Sega / Dev: Sega)

*. Demon Soul's 2 (2nd party game, Ip owned by SCE. Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment / Dev: From Software)

p.s The question remains whether those exclusives are permanent or timed, if they are from NA, EU or JPN-bound and if they will be announced at Gamescom, TGS or VGA? Verendus, any insight on this matter?:D

Edit: Changed the last two. Rumors/speculations would point out to Two SEGA games.
 
Derrick01 said:
Well I think they used to when the whole Agent thing originally broke down since Sony helped fund it but I'm not sure if it was paid back at all. Some said there was something regarding LA Noire that paid them back but I don't know. I was just saying if Rockstar did still owe them then that port of GTA 5 would make the most sense for both parties.
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L.A. Noire was at one point a Sony published exclusive so its not part of the deal.
 
F4r0_Atak said:
Verendus' possible 5 notable PS4 exclusive (All Third Parties)

1. Deep Down (working title? Publisher: Capcom / Dev: Capcom Online Games)
2. Agent (if this project is still alive. Publisher: Take-Two/Rockstar / Dev: Rockstar North)
3. Demon Soul's 2 (rumors again? Ip owned by SCE. Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment / Dev: From Software)
4. ?
5. ?

p.s The question remains whether those exclusives are permanent or timed, if they are from NA, EU or JPN-bound and if they will be announced at Gamescom, TGS or VGA? Verendus, any insight on this matter?:D
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Two from Sega.
 
Callibretto said:
a friend of mine says that 12gb ps3 probably use flash memory to store their os and he said it could make the os faster, is there any truth of this?
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Unlikely.

Flash means you can access, read and write faster than a regular harddisk.
Booting would be a read operation and because of the epilepsy warning even if there was a speedup it would be nullified by that on screen message.

Everything else that is considered OS is stored in memory after that operation and would not benefit from flash memory to store the permanent parts.

Any specifics that he means would be faster?
 
October can mean many things! The rumoured October launch could very well be October 31st, so not that much of a difference from a November 5th launch.
 
benny_a said:
Unlikely.

Flash means you can access, read and write faster than a regular harddisk.
Booting would be a read operation and because of the epilepsy warning even if there was a speedup it would be nullified by that on screen message.

Everything else that is considered OS is stored in memory after that operation and would not benefit from flash memory to store the permanent parts.

Any specifics that he means would be faster?
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There are quite a bit of related items which do benefit from a fast SSD. All the game icons, all the elements of each XMB category needs to load data and reload when you get out of a game. It would not be hard to believe that the console might feel a bit faster here and there. Even more than high bandwidth, SSD's excel at loading several small or medium sized items at once compared with HDD's with inherently longer seek times for each item.
 
benny_a said:
Unlikely.
Flash means you can access, read and write faster than a regular harddisk.
Booting would be a read operation and because of the epilepsy warning even if there was a speedup it would be nullified by that on screen message.

Everything else that is considered OS is stored in memory after that operation and would not benefit from flash memory to store the permanent parts.

Any specifics that he means would be faster?
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As in thumbnails load quicker or psn store actually faster etc
 
I don't get why gamers get so excited at the prospect of third party exclusives. I guess if you completely fund the game, i.e. make a game happen when it otherwise wouldn't, it's alright, but actually paying to make sure the game does not appear on competitors' platforms? I would much prefer that Sony/MS/Nintendo money went into making new games happen rather than into making sure games don't happen for some platforms. The more people that get to experience games like MGSV and FFXV the better.
 
hydrophilic attack said:
I don't get why gamers get so excited at the prospect of third party exclusives. I guess if you completely fund the game, i.e. make a game happen when it otherwise wouldn't, it's alright, but actually paying to make sure the game does not appear on competitors' platforms? I would much prefer that Sony/MS/Nintendo money went into making new games happen rather than into making sure games don't happen for some platforms. The more people that get to experience games like MGSV and FFXV the better.
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But if one does it the other has to. There's never going be a gentleman's agreement on that. I get what you're saying though
 
hydrophilic attack said:
I don't get why gamers get so excited at the prospect of third party exclusives. I guess if you completely fund the game, i.e. make a game happen when it otherwise wouldn't, it's alright, but actually paying to make sure the game does not appear on competitors' platforms? I would much prefer that Sony/MS/Nintendo money went into making new games happen rather than into making sure games don't happen for some platforms. The more people that get to experience games like MGSV and FFXV the better.
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Exclusives are great when they're made exclusive from the start and the developer can then build the game specifically for that hardware. Multiplatform devs are rather open about the fact that they can't really take advantage of specific hardware when they have to make sure the game runs across multiple platforms.
 
hydrophilic attack said:
I don't get why gamers get so excited at the prospect of third party exclusives. I guess if you completely fund the game, i.e. make a game happen when it otherwise wouldn't, it's alright, but actually paying to make sure the game does not appear on competitors' platforms? I would much prefer that Sony/MS/Nintendo money went into making new games happen rather than into making sure games don't happen for some platforms. The more people that get to experience games like MGSV and FFXV the better.
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agree 100%. Moneyhating games is a shitty practice, timed exclusives included.
 
hydrophilic attack said:
I don't get why gamers get so excited at the prospect of third party exclusives. I guess if you completely fund the game, i.e. make a game happen when it otherwise wouldn't, it's alright, but actually paying to make sure the game does not appear on competitors' platforms? I would much prefer that Sony/MS/Nintendo money went into making new games happen rather than into making sure games don't happen for some platforms. The more people that get to experience games like MGSV and FFXV the better.
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There may be a greater chance that the game maintains some originality if it is helped and supported by one of the big manufacturers,rather than being changed repeatedly after feedback, to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
 
Krusenstern said:
Can someone enlighten me why Rockstar is supposed to "owe" Sony something? I probably missed that.
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I swear no one has given you the right answer.

Because I am pretty sure when Rockstar inherited L.A Noire from Sony (SCEE was originally the publisher), a deal was put in place so they'd create an exclusive game for the PS3.

Obviously they never came good on that. And I remember hearing L.A Noire being something crazy like $20mil deep into development when R* picked it up. Maybe the number is just my imagination actually.
 
Panajev2001a said:
There are quite a bit of related items which do benefit from a fast SSD. All the game icons, all the elements of each XMB category needs to load data and reload when you get out of a game. It would not be hard to believe that the console might feel a bit faster here and there. Even more than high bandwidth, SSD's excel at loading several small or medium sized items at once compared with HDD's with inherently longer seek times for each item.
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You are completely right. I wasn't thinking of those to me trivial things. (Thumbnails for the media on the device.)

Callibretto said:
As in thumbnails load quicker or psn store actually faster etc
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None of that seems unreasonable.
 
I would get excited for exclusive titles, not to justify my choice of system, but rather that there's a chance the game is tailored to one system. It hopefully has stronger graphic fidelity... Etc.
 
bobbytkc said:
You make games that are commercial failures, you close. Doesnt matter if they are part of sony.

Lets face it. The only good thing Liverpool did was wipeout, and that was getting formulaic with each release.
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I don't disagree. Still, it's sad to see a studio close and people lose their jobs.
 
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