Comments on: Sony: Our first-party dev is as big as Microsoft and Nintendo’s combined

By: Cort

Cort — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:53:18 +0000

judono, now that’s even more silly, surely?

Even if you think that – in complete isolation – the first party line up isn’t game-changing (no pun intended), when compared to its competitors (which is the whole point of the quote and the story) Sony’s existing first-party library is strong and it has the current industry-leading roster for 2009/10.

Or do you think that Microsoft Game Studios and Nintendo have more than five first-party titles a year which everyone wants to play? (Genuine question.)

By: judono

judono — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:51:08 +0000

i’ll start beleiving that as soon as see more than five first party titles people actualy want to play a year.

By: Cort

Cort — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:51:30 +0000

“You see, our beloved PS3 console actually entirely depends upon 1st party software in the West…>”

Entirely? What silly rubbish.

By: SERAPHEMZ

SERAPHEMZ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:44:25 +0000

Nintendo produces mostly shit.. so maybe they need to go out to get some good stuff.

How many f’n Mario,Wario games can you make really???

By: spanishdudewii

spanishdudewii — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:22:34 +0000

Sony’s parcing words. Nintendo is the only videogame publisher to internally develop both hardware and software. Sony and Microsoft have first-party studios, yes, but not in the same way Nintendo does. They each have wholly-owned development houses that answer directly to Sony and Microsoft, but their not interal teams working within their headquarters.
Does Sony own several large first-party studio’s that outnumber the 1,500 or so developers inside Nintendo’s teams? Probably. But Sony’s a much larger company than Nintendo.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:13:10 +0000

The truth at last!

Thanks Professor.

By: Prof Power Glove

Prof Power Glove — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:21:13 +0000

They don’t all work on Eye-pet. Oh the stories I could tell if I dared..

Most of the people from Eight Days/Getaway were initially redistributed onto other projects (Home etc) but then a healthy bunch were then made redundant or left. Actually, wait, that happened before either project was actually canned properly.

Both were huge projects with big budgets and Sony didn’t want to take a risk on them. Now what do Sony London do? You see, our beloved PS3 console actually entirely depends upon 1st party software in the West while Microsoft/Nintendo have 3rd party developers bringing out decent titles too.

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:11:22 +0000

“There was that shooty thing. Killsomethingorother.”

And that LittleBigwhatchacallit game.

Motorsomethingorother isn’t that bad either.

Resistance is a bit crap though, unfortunately.

By: Truk

Truk — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:08:24 +0000

This thread makes me chuckle. Unsurprisingly, GHz is leading the laughs.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:40:14 +0000

There was that shooty thing. Killsomethingorother.

By: Wurider

Wurider — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:37:20 +0000

What’s the point when these studios don’t put out shit worth buying!!! I mean what is there to brag about really!! MLB:The show is all they have.

By: Cort

Cort — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:43:44 +0000

They could have started a new IP or been seconded to another Sony studio. We all know about the cross-fertilisation between SCE’s developers.

By: Herlock

Herlock — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:39:10 +0000

They all work on Eye Pet.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:24:37 +0000

So the Lead Designer that was working on Eight Days… Where did he go?

What do you do with a guy on £70k pa who no longer has a game to develop?

The Lead Artist, the Senior Producer and the entire coding team that was working on The Getaway… Where did they all go?

Did they get assigned to a game that already had all of these positions filled?

I’m sure that they’re not just sitting around twiddling their thumbs and getting paid for it.

Oooooo…. It’s a mystery…

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:13:51 +0000

They just canned the games, not the entire studios…

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:12:31 +0000

Yeah, but where did all of the staff go?

I suppose it’s commendable to can two projects, then move everyone who was working on them to other projects, but I’m thinking that you’ll probably end up with too many staff for your needs.

I know that they shared staff across projects at SCEE, but not everyone, surely…?

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:06:58 +0000

I don’t think it was staff cut problems that got The Getaway and Eight Days canned. More that they weren’t the right “sort” of game.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:05:34 +0000

Sony have 3 more first party studios then both MS and Nintendo combined to be exact.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:53:24 +0000

/searches net.

Seems like you’re right Cort, but it’s strange that they would can The Getaway and Eight Days, then lay off 8000 staff and that none of those would be from SCEE…

I must have just assumed that they were.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:49:29 +0000

You need to read some statements from Aaron Greenberg, Chris Lewis and David Yarnton.

See HoC? Balance

By: Doomsayer

Doomsayer — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:46:00 +0000

My Dick is bigger than yours…. gotta love sony

By: Cort

Cort — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:41:44 +0000

G1GA, I’m pretty sure SCE escaped Sir Howard’s scythe.

By: Herlock

Herlock — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:34:03 +0000

The reason why i love Sony, it’s the best and the biggest Studio in video game industry, but in Europe we like to have your Japan game TOO, all og them like WKS, Demon’s Souls, Afrika etc…and push Sega for Kenzan et Yakuza III dammit!

By: Shatner

Shatner — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:33:53 +0000

Doesn’t matter. MS would just shut down another Ensemble or something!

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:24:07 +0000

Just think…

It would have been EVEN BIGGER if the didn’t just lay off all those staff!!