Hermen visiting future first party playstation FPS studio
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They teased Mars on their site, then removed it once people found it.
“First games on Mars” and “Deviation mission to Mars” seems pretty direct.
“First games on Mars” and “Deviation mission to Mars” seems pretty direct.
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Yeah, hope it’s not trying to be some clever and unique semi derivative. Just release a super polished AAAA modern war shooter.
Me no likeee
But, happy to see something different as long as it’s brilliant
But with the likes of Hyenas and Redfall recently tho, what are the odds of garbage on a plate.
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These guys seem more experienced in this field. Arkane are immersive sim guys, and who knows wtf sega is doing. they seem like they’re just following the trends. Sounds like these guys are doing something different than the average military or quirky hero shooter. Maybe something entirely different.
I really hope its something closer to what Embark Studios are doing
Sony isn't MS. They don't need to game that is in preproduction, several years away from being released.
I think they'll do something brand new. A game called Call of Destiny: Fort night Duty.
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Bungie and Haven were not organic. Square Enix for example would be organic, because they working with them close (many exclusives till today) since the first PS1 and other areas aside games. Deviation is a safe bet, because not only Microsoft, EA for e.g. could buy them too if they see Deviation games have good performance.
Even if it's not, they should still be bought.
It's all about talented developers at this point. If they are in house and have the right budget and support, they can make whatever game there is a demand for: sci-fi shooter, boots on the ground, Titanfall-type shooter, whatever.
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I’d think a more telling sign is that he visited a 3rd party companies studio at all. He is the head of playstation studios, if it were a 3rd party partnership still it would be Greg rice and those people that visited them
Hulst is in charge of all games PlayStation Studios is publishing, so his visit isn’t anything special.
But Hulst admitted part of the point of these deals was to potentially buy them (Haven), so it’s possible.
Has nothing to do with Greg Rice. He handles PlayStation indies.
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I dunno about Sony buying unproven studios. That includes Haven (already bought obviously, but the idea that Jade Raymond is some hit machine is flawed to me, which we've argued about here before.)
It's cheap enough for them I guess compared to buying studios with tons of releases.. but I like(d) their approach of funding a game with exclusive contracts then seeing how that goes.
With the Returnal dev for instance they got them to stop any and all production on other projects and focus on Returnal. At that point the studio is basically a PS 1st party anyways, and Sony clearly does a good job of making people want to continue working with them. Is it possible a studio would turn around and use that game to make themselves ripe to sell to someone else? Yeah.. but I think that's not super likely.
Sony seems to get devs to want to sell to them after working with them exclusively or nearly exclusively.. and IMO that's a smarter more cautious approach.
It's cheap enough for them I guess compared to buying studios with tons of releases.. but I like(d) their approach of funding a game with exclusive contracts then seeing how that goes.
With the Returnal dev for instance they got them to stop any and all production on other projects and focus on Returnal. At that point the studio is basically a PS 1st party anyways, and Sony clearly does a good job of making people want to continue working with them. Is it possible a studio would turn around and use that game to make themselves ripe to sell to someone else? Yeah.. but I think that's not super likely.
Sony seems to get devs to want to sell to them after working with them exclusively or nearly exclusively.. and IMO that's a smarter more cautious approach.
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