I think the problem is that regardless of how many studios or indeed games they have in development they are unable to put together a summer games Showcase, add that to the terrible one they did last year hence the reason for this thread and the concerns raised.
If you actually look at the facts and the many mistakes made on the managerial side it starts to paint a rather unflattering picture.
That's bullshit, they had always a summer showcase/E3 conference and they will do this one too. With a year as exception due to a fucking global pandemic that shattered eveyone's plans.
The objective KPIs that measure their success show they are performing better than ever -even breaking many records for them or in some caases even any console maker in gaming history- and that they are growing in basically all areas. You personally not making some decision they took was a mistaake.
Media Molecule nothing new for many years and nothing on the horizon.
This is bullshit. They were working on post launch Dream content and support until recently, when they announced that stopped working on it and moved to a new game.
Firesprite was working on a Twisted Metal game which was cancelled (wasted development time) new horror project years away.
No. What we know for a fact is that they have been working for years on a single player horror adventure and a multiplayer game with on foot and on vehicle combat.
And outside that, Jason Schreier (who like his coworker in Bloomberg often mades up fake news about Sony) said they had a Twisted Metal pitch that wasn't greenlighted, which means it was in very early stages and never started its production, so they alsmost didn't spend resources on it.
Bend pitched a Days Gone 2vwhich was denied,
Bullshit, Bend never pitched Days Gone 2 to PS Studios. It was an internal Bend boss (the studio manager) who blocked it. Both Days Gone directors publicly said Sony was always very supportive with Days Gone even after the reviews. Sony greenlighted the first post-DG1 pitch they received from Bend: the new IP they are working on.
spent time working on TLOU remake unknown game years away.
Naughty Dog was finishing up the MP component for TLOU2 was then told to make a much bigger standalone GaaS title (unbelievably bad decision) which was subsequently cancelled wasting years of development time. New IP in development years away.
ND wasn't told to do this. It was ND who decided to branch it out to a standalone game. And later was ND who decided to cancel it. To make games is very hard, it's a creative process very hard to predict and sometimes projects get cancelled, but they learn from it and also reuse part of that job done there in other projects. In this case, pretty likely will reuse part of this work in TLOU3.
In summer 2023 they had a game concept to start working on TLOU3 (they decided later to cancel TLOU Online, maybe to work on TLOU3 instead). In addition to TLOU online they were working back then in minimum two new SP games more: one that started around 2021 and other one that started in early 2023.
Yes we do have some hope with Insomniac, Guerrilla and Sucker punch but will they show anything this year?
We have hope with all their studios. In recent years Sony have multiple shows across the year, and focus them on games to be released in the next 6-9 months, with a few rare excepcions including games planned to be released maximum a year and a half or two.
This means pretty likely they won't show Wolverine if it really is a 2026 game as we saw in the leaks. The leaks shown Venom planned for 2025 in some roadmaps and 2027 in other ones. I'd bet the most updated one would be adding a delay, but if they plan to release it in 2025 that could be a game (or DLC) they could announce this year.
For Guerrilla would be too early to announce the Horizon 3 game they are working on, but could show the Horizon Online game they had in the works since 2018 (early 2018 they hired back the Rainbow Six & Killzone 2 MP director to work on it).
Sucker Punch released GoT in mid 2020, GoT Legends in late 2020 and the Ikki DLC + DC/PS5 imrprovements in mid 2021. So knowing that nowadays big AAA games take 5-9 years, pretty likely it's too early for them to show GoT2. But you never know, they can always put a CG logo teaser.
but it still doesn't answer what's going on at Playstation Studios
We know what is going on there, they are making a lot of games, more than even before. But nowadays games take longer to be made, around 5-9 years for big AAA games.
We also know that many Sony haters are acting as gaming flatearthers. Childish, entitled, whiny drama queens who act as if all the many games recently released by Sony and the many games they have announced -several of them to be released later this year- wouldn't exist, when they know they are there.
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