How many games of the China Hero Project have actually materialized? That makes me a bit worried, I'd rather see them working more with SEGA, Capcom, Square, etc. again...
SIE is looking for business partnerships with Korean companies, collaboration / investment options with Pearl Abyss, Neowiz, Com2uS, and NCSOFT etc
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I agree with that, and if Sony are being smart they will be looking to established players with valuable IP as well, not just upstarts with no IP.
Thanks for the info! That's more than I expexted. I feel like some time ago Sony just suddenly stopped talking about this project.
If you haven't checked them out, both anno mutationem and forged in shadow torch are solid 8/10 indie/single A level games. Both are action sidescrollers, although anno is a bit more unique and FIST is more traditional
I'm all for Sony branching out. The less dependent on western pubs the better for them.
Ncsoft was rumored to be working on a larger mmo horizon mmo. Guerilla was said to be working on a horizon multiplayer game those might not be the same project. If a horizon mmorpg type game is in development doubt Guerilla would handle that themselves if it were smaller scale like a monster hunter type game they probably would keep that in house.
I'm really looking forward to the Chinese and Korean attempts to make a COD killer....
First up.... Call of Communism
Second.... Call of Communism Korea
Disclosure: I started from the acronym and worked backwards.
First up.... Call of Communism
Second.... Call of Communism Korea
Disclosure: I started from the acronym and worked backwards.
FYI south korea isn't communist
That said a korean gaas studio making an fps would probably be more aptly named Call of Creditcards: Infinite Chargebacks
The china hero project is just about cultivating local Indy talent Sony isnt pumping all that much money into it. We are talking about less than 200k in the small projects. It’s worth even just as a source of good pr.
Sega is garbage forget about them they milk a couple of ip they pc business isn’t doing so good most of their high profile talent left and went over to netease. Capcom on is taking billion from the Saudis who have a stake in them now. Sony should focus on square, buying Konami ip, from which is wasted by kodakawa. Sony should also buy level 5 and turn them loose on the back catalogue of jrpgs that’s an untapped nostalgia gold mine.
Sony is looking for ways to keep its revenue if they lose CoD.
I don't like it but it makes sense.
I don't like it but it makes sense.
I know, I am a blackbelt in ITF Chang hon style Taekwon-do.... where we have to study some history of Korea too.
But, yeah...I know a fair amount about things like the DMZ, 38th parallel and pretty obscure stuff to westerners like Juche etc.
What IPs are we talking about? Cod and gta and that type of garbage? How many actual older ip are still relevant today? I’d rather ps build up new teams make new ip. Diversify by branching out into other genres or studios/publishers with unique skill sets.
Shift UP is only the parent who own the actual developer of Stellar Blade (Eve studio).
I could see Sony pull off the same move they did to buy out Firewalk from their parent company.
Neo Wiz could be also interesting for Sony. I played the demo of Lies of P, and it was quite astounding. Neo Wiz has potential. Also it would be good to secure some Korean Studios for PlayStation studios, would make them more popular in Korea.
I could see Sony pull off the same move they did to buy out Firewalk from their parent company.
Neo Wiz could be also interesting for Sony. I played the demo of Lies of P, and it was quite astounding. Neo Wiz has potential. Also it would be good to secure some Korean Studios for PlayStation studios, would make them more popular in Korea.
Tencent alrdy has a stake in shiftup. they developed a mobile game for them and I think recent would move to squire them first to utilize them on future projects.
It doesn’t matter. Shift Up is only the parent company where Tencent has stakes in. Sony can still buyout the developer studio (eve studio) from Shift Up.
As far as we know, Stellar Blade isn't a GaaS.Yay. More GaaS crap.
Yes, but there's also rumors of Miyamoto developing Knack 3 as Xbox excllusive.
Now seriously: NC Soft collaborating with Sony/Guerrilla to make an Horizon kinda MMORPG makes a lot of sense, helping them to grow in GaaS and Asia via mainly PC or mobile, But as of now it's a random rumor from internet that as I remember came from a weak source.
