Remember when Naughty Dog used to make New Games
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In awards, yes. In sales, not even a little bit.
2 years after release it had sold less than half of Spider-Man, God of War 2018 and Horizon Zero Dawn.
And considering the fact that >40% of those 10 million sales were pre-orders (i.e. leap of faith purchases taken from goodwill gained over the 1st game), there should be very little doubt that TLoU2 sold as much as Sony had hoped.
Big ass AAA games requiring a ton of work/time to be made or having delays, specially with a pandemic in the middle, don't imply bad management.
It just means huge projects require huge development times.
SIE's SVP & head of global marketing: "We’re delighted to report that The Last of Us Part II is now the fastest-selling first-party PS4 exclusive ever".
In 2020 TLOU2 broke sales records, in 2022 they did with GoWR, in 2023 with Spider-Man 2 and in 2024 with -minimum- Helldivers 2.
Any source for this >40%? Why not to say 40000% instead?
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Because since a ton of years before that timeframe, unlike the other studios, Insomniac had way more people and they were always working in 3/4 games at the same time, while most of the other teams only did work on a single game at the same time.
Only with Jimbo and Hermen many of the other teams also got 2, 3 or even 4 teams at the same time working on multiple games at the same time. And these new times will need the average time to develop AAA games, which aren't developed in under a year because we are not in the PS1 generation, or in 2 or 3 like in the PS3 generation, games are way bigger and way more complex than back then.
Insomniac doesn't have any magic formula, they aren't superhuman. They only had more people/teams to work in more games at the same time than the other ones.
Nobody would care if Naughty Dog did a million remasters if they showed what they were working on
Insomniac was able to iterate efficiently and reuse and update assets and tech. Their approach to the marvel universe is not so much different than GAAS. It’s a consistent content pipeline that they clearly have a handle on.
Naughty Dog definitely “lost time” by cancelling TLOU Online even if I agree with the their logic behind their decision.
I doubt anyone at Sony or Naughty Dog is happy about this but shit happens. The remasters and upgrades are probably to also make up for lost revenues with falling behind schedule. How they move forward, if the right course correction… could be worth it. To me that’s a trust issue and I mostly trust Sony to handle stuff accordingly.
Naughty Dog definitely “lost time” by cancelling TLOU Online even if I agree with the their logic behind their decision.
I doubt anyone at Sony or Naughty Dog is happy about this but shit happens. The remasters and upgrades are probably to also make up for lost revenues with falling behind schedule. How they move forward, if the right course correction… could be worth it. To me that’s a trust issue and I mostly trust Sony to handle stuff accordingly.
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Efficiency is what matters, the fans want new great games to play and that's exactly what insomniac has been delivering.
Sony needs to expand them, since they seem to be the only first party actually releasing games on ps5 this gen.
If we don't see any New Games from Naughty Dog in the next showcase, i would seriously advocate for Sony Shutting them down.
There were 4 years in between Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Part 2. Knowing that the studio dealt with a pandemic that would have slowed them down, knowing that games take longer to develop now than they did in the previous generation, knowing that they are working on multiple projects, you still have jokers who think that they should have released 2 games by now just because Insomniac reused their engine and map 3 times in 5 years.
There is a reason why Insomniac games barely hit 90 whereas that's largely the floor for Naughty Dog games.
Comparing the two studios is an absolute joke.
There is a reason why Insomniac games barely hit 90 whereas that's largely the floor for Naughty Dog games.
Comparing the two studios is an absolute joke.
If Sony expanded a team, they'll have to charge more for their games, a thing a lot of gamers seem to ignore.
I think the only option is to either break up games into a FF7: Remake situation (but spanning one generation) to capitalize on preexisting assets for a high ROI or scale down the graphical fidelity of games and maybe offer a visual upgrade option for the spec chasers.
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You and Neil Druckmann can both jerk off to the Metacritic score together while the rest of us enjoy these insomniac games.
I'm sure my grandchildren will really enjoy those games.
Why would they need to charge more for games?
They can't show it without peoples lives being put at risk. They are working on a combat simulator game that includes top secret weapons that the general public can't be made aware of yet.
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Each Ubisoft game has thousands of people working on it.
Not sure why you seem to think your theory is fact? More people working on it also means less development time which reduces overall cost.