PlayStation Studios Aiming to ‘Continuously Release Hit Titles,’ Says Sony
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I take it as a compliment, coming from a diamond
.Should have quoted the rest of your post, too, you know, the reason I continued to try teach you something. But you seem resilient to that.
Okay. Next question, who owns the publishing rights? Because if it happens to be Sony, then that's just as good as owning the IP because the actual IP owner can't do anything with the IP unless given written consent by the holder of the publishing rights.
Right now maybe Sony, doesn't mean it's forever though. That's why I mentioned Mass Effect previously, which was published by Microsoft initially.
Sometimes publishing rights also differ depending on region and/or platform.
A good example would be Death Stranding, which is a PlayStation 1st party game, but was published by 505 on PC.
Call of Duty was often published by Sony in Japan.
Or another example from the past would've been Gears of War, which was a 3rd party game published by Microsoft, but Epic wanted to go multiplatform so MS had to buy the IP from them, making it 1st party.
So any official sources to back that up or do we rely on an unknown (at least to me) Korean site?
Would be great news if it was true!
Nothing officially disclosed from Sony or Shift Up.
Only that it's sold directly on PS Direct without a PS studios logo unlike the other one close to release wo trademark Ronin.
and no PC version at launch
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Regarding this, there is every extense oficial public legal document from Shift-Up in Korean, I don't remember if to report to their government or to their investors where they did talk about multiple topics, like being considering a PC port and sequel, plus that they were starting to work on a different game about witches.
In that document they talk about their relationship with Sony for Stellar Blade and say it's a 2nd party game. I posted translations in the related iconera thread. There's also some quote from Hermen talking about 1st and 2nd party plus the closer than usual relationship of PS Studios with some studios they don't own like Kojipro.
Edit: this was the document, I don't remember in which page do they mention 2nd party and I'm lazy to search it https://dart.fss.or.kr/dsaf001/main.do?rcpNo=20240520000263
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Isn't this the aim of every publisher to continously release hit titles?
I'm filing this under "No Shit Sherlock"
I'm filing this under "No Shit Sherlock"
The culture wants smaller games that don't take forever to come out.
Seeing their output, it seems Xbox misread it and continuously releases shit titles instead.
Thats not true, they could publish the sequel through anyone. And since its one of their most successful games of all time its almost certainly going to get one.
That's what people don't seem to understand when speaking about 1st party and how IP ownership is the deciding factor.
SIE can ask any studio, including external ones, to make a sequel or spinoff to one of their games. It would still be a 1st party game.
Demon's Soul is the perfect example for this, as it was initially developed by a third party, but it's a SIE IP, therefore PlayStation was able to release a remake made by another studio, without asking From Software.
We got a lot of those this year, im not sure thats true
I think most people crave state of the art games that only naughty dog, Guerilla and Santa Monica can do