Terrible gen continues: Sony closes Down Guerilla Cambridge
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It's fear based as "Media Molecule is doomed and will shut down if Dreams flop" is not a fact. It's not a fact because it isn't like it's been announced that it flopping will result in a closure. We don't know that. who would've known Evolution would've closed down back when Motorstorm came out?
Am I saying otherwise? Nobody is saying studios aren't closing.
I said that the studios that have been closed in the past are typically closed for specific reasons like multiple flops, no profits etc.
You're making it seem like this studio closing is the end of the world which brings me to my next point
They have less studios, but they still have the most studios themselves out of the others(MS and N). There was 16 last gen, now they're at 12. 4 studios closing isn't the apocalypse which is what some folks are trying to say.
Is closing down a studio due to them not being profitable no longer valid? Unlike Microsoft, Sony has historically always been a platform supported by 3rd party devs. Since PS1. Didn't Kojima just open up a new studio and worked with Sony to bring it to PS4 exclusively?
MS never really had much 1st party titles outside the regular studios which is why people see Xbox closing down another studio as "big" because they damn near don't have any which is precisely the point we're making.
Idk, I can't predict the future. I'll say that out of the 12 major studios I posted above, I don't think any of them will be closing this gen.
If they do
That's the reality we live in studios get closed.
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SIE Worldwide Studios - Wikipedia
- Guerrilla Games, developers of the Killzone series was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.[2]
- 989 Studios, developers of various sport games, was closed.
- Zipper Interactive, developers of the SOCOM series was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.[3]
- Evolution Studios and BigBig Studios, developers of the MotorStorm series and Pursuit Force series, were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.[4]
- Incognito Entertainment, developers of the Twisted Metal series and Warhawk, was closed.
- Media Molecule, developers of the PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet, was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.[5]
- Sucker Punch Productions, developers of the Sly Cooper series and Infamous series, was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.[6]
- BigBig Studios, developers of the Pursuit Force series, MotorStorm: Arctic Edge and Little Deviants was closed.[7]
- Cambridge Studio was renamed as Guerrilla Cambridge, becoming a sister studio to Guerrilla Games [8][9]
- Zipper Interactive, developers of the SOCOM series, MAG and Unit 13 was closed.[10]
- Studio Liverpool, developer of the Wipeout and Formula One series was closed.[11]
- PixelOpus, developers of Entwined was announced by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.[12]
- North West Studio, a Virtual Reality focused studio making games for PlayStation VR.[13]
- Evolution Studios, developers of the MotorStorm series and Driveclub was closed.[14]
- On March 24, 2016, Sony announced the formation of ForwardWorks, a new company that was aimed to deploy new services toward the smartdevice market.[15]
- On January 12, 2017, Sony confirmed the closure of Guerrilla Cambridge.[16]
SIE Worldwide Studios - Wikipedia
It's Sony fault guerilla Cambridge wasn't profitable.It's fear based as "Media Molecule is doomed and will shut down if Dreams flop" is not a fact. It's not a fact because it isn't like it's been announced that it flopping will result in a closure. We don't know that. who would've known Evolution would've closed down back when Motorstorm came out?
Am I saying otherwise? Nobody is saying studios aren't closing.
I said that the studios that have been closed in the past are typically closed for specific reasons like multiple flops, no profits etc.
You're making it seem like this studio closing is the end of the world which brings me to my next point
They have less studios, but they still have the most studios themselves out of the others(MS and N). There was 16 last gen, now they're at 12. 4 studios closing isn't the apocalypse which is what some folks are trying to say.
Is closing down a studio due to them not being profitable no longer valid? Unlike Microsoft, Sony has historically always been a platform supported by 3rd party devs. Since PS1. Didn't Kojima just open up a new studio and worked with Sony to bring it to PS4 exclusively?
MS never really had much 1st party titles outside the regular studios which is why people see Xbox closing down another studio as "big" because they damn near don't have any which is precisely the point we're making.
Idk, I can't predict the future. I'll say that out of the 12 major studios I posted above, I don't think any of them will be closing this gen.
If they do
They had them make a game for a dead platform and a game for a platform that has less than a million in sales.
They sent then to their deatH.
That's on Sony, and is mismanagement at worst.
I'll make sure to @ you when they close their next studio so you can tell us why it doesn't matter.
Why does it matter then? They have 12 other studios, plus 2nd and 3rd party partnerships but you're telling us that them losing Cambridge is so devastating. Why? What exactly is it that has you up in arms about GGC? Keep it specific to them and not go on a tangent about "studio closure" and "diversity" which is a broad topic because it sounds like you're trying to create an argument I'm not making(that closing down studios in general doesn't matter) to argue with and trying to make me defend a point that's not mines. People tend to be armchair experts on business side of things too much on here. I think Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony knows more about how to handle their business somewhat more than typical coli posters like us do.
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Damn. They got assigned to make the flagship AAA titles for dead and embryonic platforms, delivered and get closed. Harsh af.
I still remember MediEvil back in the day. It's top two franchises I wanted to make a comeback along with Dino Crisis. I repped my boy Sir Dan in that Sony Smash Bros game, he was trash tier but I took him to brown belt.
I still remember MediEvil back in the day. It's top two franchises I wanted to make a comeback along with Dino Crisis. I repped my boy Sir Dan in that Sony Smash Bros game, he was trash tier but I took him to brown belt.
Don't worry. Sony is just going to rely on third parties for VR going forward.Damn. They got assigned to make the flagship AAA titles for dead and embryonic platforms, delivered and get closed. Harsh af.
I still remember MediEvil back in the day. It's top two franchises I wanted to make a comeback along with Dino Crisis. I repped my boy Sir Dan in that Sony Smash Bros game, he was trash tier but I took him to brown belt.
We all know how well that worked for vita and move.
So does this mean PSVR is already a flop?
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We're on the blood path now
What ways can companies make it less expensive?