Well hopefully nothing else fails and gets shuts down.
I think game is an artistic field of work and devs should be allowed to experiment with ideas, fail if they get it wrong and also succeed if they get it right.
Firewalk Studios is being shut down
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I think game is an artistic field of work and devs should be allowed to experiment with ideas, fail if they get it wrong and also succeed if they get it right.
why are you wasting your time arguing with a clown that justifies and acclaims every move, even the stupidest, baddest ones that Sony makes? he's just a fucking clown who can't accept the reality of things, and the reality of things is that Sony has lost billions of dollars trying to follow trends instead of just sticking to what worked and slowly dipping their toes into GAAS and Mobile without making any huge financial commitment/acquisition, now we are the ones paying for that with no tentpole releases in 2024 and only one tentpole release in 2023
i said to this clown months ago Firewalk would get closed and so will Haven if FairGame$ flops, and let's be honest, the chances of FairGame$ flopping are IMMENSE, just look at the dislike ratio on the trailer, turns out, gamers don't want these stupid trends that Sony is following with their GAAs games, they don't want another hero shooter, they don't want another extraction shooter, they want something original, something that TLOU Factions could bring, something that Spiderman The Greater Web could bring, but anyway, i won't waste my time here either, just comical to see such "analysts" now with their hands tied after backing all this shit up.
Connie pretty likely took responsability for several projects she was in charge didn't work (Pixel Opus' title, TLOU Online, Deviation's game, Sony London's new IP, Concord).
Jim Ryan retired after 30 years of service having broken almost all records he could break, with SIE having the best generation ever in terms of revenue, profit and active userbase (and a lot of other key metrics). At a retirement age and giving notice of around half a year before leaving.
I'd say there will be several studio creations (we know there's minimum the secret ex-Deviation studio and the ex-Bungie studio), acquisitions (I expect them to resume acquisitions late 2025/early 2026) and closures (I think could be case of MM and Haven if their next game tank hard, something I think won't happen) before PS6 gets released around late 2027/early 2028.
I might be the top 1 Wipeout fan, but I understand that this is a business and not a charity.
So there is nothing rare that -as it was the case of these teams- when several games in a row of a studio don't sell enough (normally meaning that the projects are unprofitable) it is pretty likely that will end shut down, as happened to them.
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Their output isn't smaller: big games take longer to be made every generation for all companies, not only Sony. The only way for releasing games faster is to have more and bigger development teams.
This is the reason of why Sony acquired development studios, support studios and heavily grew the their previously existing studios during the Hermen and Ryan era.
When a publisher sees that a game won't be sustainable they cancel it, or in case of being an released live service game, they shut it down. It's better to do it as fast as possible, to reduce the amount of money lost with it.
Well, they shat down 3 of them during development, before release. In GaaS is common to see games to be shut down during soft launch / early access once they see the game metrics aren't good enough to sustain it in the long term. In case of ND it was different, but canned it too.
They acquired Bungie and got 3 GaaS that replaced the 3 canned GaaS. Pretty likely they had planned to at some point to can 3 GaaS. Their plan of having a dozen GaaS continues.