It was thier biggest studio and they made 2 knacks in a row the only person who played that was dunkey. Last guardian took 10 years. As much as I love gravity rush and locoroco neither of those games were successful. On that note I hope asobi revisit gravity rush when the anime comes out.
Why?
Anime? I thought it was going to be a live action.
I heard animated feature like twisted metal I think it's leading to a revival of some kind
Imagine thinking that anyone who doesnt like this clout chaser is a Sony fanboy
lol
People are legit mad there is no knack 3 and can't understand why they didn't make it.
jaffe is speaking from his perspective. Yes it's very huge sad and disrespectful for him, because he knew and worked with Connie and has a lot respect for her. Just because you barely know who she is does not make his description of the situation wrong. It's not just a producer to him. To him Connie was instrumental in delivering a lot of industry defining games. For that to be the case and for her to simply get fired after all she has done for Sony is tragic and anybody with an ounce of empathy in their personality could take a moment and place themselves in his shoes and see why he describes this situation as he did.
His last game, a 1st party Sony one at that, was six years ago, but sure.
You forgot to add that it was a 56 on Metacritic. Jaffe's last relevant game was God of War in 2005
Media Molecule has a more recent and bigger success than Japan Studio. And that's why Sony will allow them to try again even if Dreams flopped.
Do this with AC Mirage an it feels like you've time travelled.
I mean, if he's making enough money and he's happy, more power to him.
There is no point in making products that consumers won't buy no one should be expected to do this.
But your smaller should be successful too I'm I make a game for 1mil and it only makes 200k that's not good either. your smaller games shouldn't pressure your larger games to make money to keep the smaller games going. that doesn't seem healthy. Late japan studios games had really small audiences, hell knak was held together by dunkey. Small games should be cheap and come out regularly. I love shit like freedom wars, gravity rush, locoroco, but I know I'm in the minority, I can't fault them for rallying around the one team inside there that was successful.
Indeed. Jaffe and Mark Kern (Grumms) both. They have a following of fans who act like their word and takes on the industry are gospel even though they haven’t really been in the industry for years or even decades. Or they’re so far on the periphery that they’re just talking out of their asses most of the time.
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Topher
‘s point, before their shift where they axed Japan Studio and focused big on “western” dev, Sony’s attitude was very similar to Hollywood of old: If you wanted a niche passion project film made, the studio needed big mass market hits to help finance them. Directors and producers who made blockbuster money would be given the resources and free rein to pursue their less (sometimes not at all) profitable projects.
There are no smaller games anymore. It's indie or triple A.
And that's and point however near the end alot of those art projects just weren't good or took to long to make. Personally I want housemarqe to make a new resugun in-between there next big project. It's cheap and fun.Edit:
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Hollywood moved away from that over the last few decades and gaming apparently has as well. I suspect that’s why there’s some internal beef at Sony right now, the argument about focusing on blockbusters and chasing trends at the expense of art
Absolutely but tango game works are the proud creators of the evil within, evil within 2, and ghost wire tokyo, they make big games then they get to make thier small art game that's dope. Obsidian creators of the outer worlds, proud architects of the best fallout game new vegas. They make a small passion project in between. Naughty dog makes uncharted 2, and the last of us. Japan Studio gets to make fat Princess. That's not healthy. I'd rather have the bigger Studios make small stuff in-between.
Yes now be Herman hulst Killzone shadowfall launches it's not reviewed great it sells poorly. Guerilla games is probably lined up for execution if thier new ip fails. meanwhile across the ocean there is a studio that is allowed to just drain money there is zero pressure on these devs to preform well at all. In fact your failure impacts them.
Nuke it again
Could you comprehend large numbers? In the grand scheme of things, the number of zeros don't matter, it's all about relativity, when there is a bigger piece of pie, which is mobile, then, the other smaller pieces should do something to prevent it from getting bigger, otherwise, they'll just keep on shrinking.
