Cory Barlog Praises Colleagues After Seeing Early Work on New Project
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Herman said something similar last summer when he visited Santa Monica. He called what he saw inspiring or something.
I loved GOWR. Santa Monica does great work, just shame they only have 1 game being developed at a time.
Seems like Sony has only given Insomniac the keys to work multiple projects at once, imagine they were smart enough to do that with all there major studios like Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Guerilla and Santa Monica
He did. It was in pre production. It most likely didn’t start full production until 2023 after Ragnarok was completed. Also don’t forget there was a pandemic, the worst time to start a project.
Bruh. After all of these layoffs that are happening in the industry, you really want these studios to expand? Also SSM is in California. If Sony expands that studio with how high California wages are, that’s more money that Sony is going to have to pay to those devs, which will make those games more expensive to make. Sony needs to invest in studios outside of Cali, those wages are driving those game budgets.
Ragnarok is a good game but I also found the game a bit of a letdown and it felt rushed lol.
Sony Santa Monica has been in my Sony Trifecta since 2005, don't get me wrong. I just don't trust Cory's hype tweets anymore.
But at least we know the game will be announced in less than a year otherwise he wouldn't publicly say this
Considering there games make big profits yes I expect them to expand. Only 1 game this gen didnt make profit which was destruction all stars.
Insomniac did and they are releasing games almost every 2 years, high quality games. Imagine if the rest of the studios were releasing games every 2 years
They have been given proper resources and have a great management. Sony should do he same with the other studios so we get more games.
They grew and Sony Santa Monica had over 400 employees since at least a couple years ago, which is enough people to lead 2 or 3 AAA games at full production.
We know Ragnarok and Valhalla had different teams, and that Cory might be working on its new IP, which would be a 3rd team. The Ragnarok team apparently is working on the next GoW set in a new mythology.
They may also overviewing the GoWR PC port plus the tv show adaptation of GoW.
Sounds great. I wish they started in 2018-2019 after GOW2018. So we would have the new ip now or next year tops.
They should not be wasting resources on PC ports.I doubt they are wasting time on the TV Show more than just ideas or some of the older heads giving inputs.
Cory said that after shipping GoW 2018 was going to have vacations with the family and in summer 2018 was going to work on a pitch of a new IP. Being optimistic, after around 6-9 works of preproduction it would be greenlighted. Meaning, that if that new IP got greenlighted they started its production in minimum H1 2019.
Being pretty unrealistically optimistic, it would be shipped 5 years later, in H1 2024. But there was Covid, adding minimum half a year of delay. So minimum H2 2024. It's a new IP, which requires extra time, and being the first time they had two big production teams at the same time, pretty likely they needed some extra time to build the team making related hirings and struggling with some production issues.
So I think that being optimistic, if it exists makes more thing that it would have minimm a 2025 release. Being more realistic, maybe 2026 or 2027 release.
They don't waste resources on PC ports. Compared to the over 200-300M budget of a brand new game, a PC port only takes around a couple millions and is made by a separate unrelated team (Valkyrie + Jetpack in case of GoW, Nixxes for Insomniac, Guerrilla or Sucker Punch, Iron Galaxy + Visual Arts for ND).
