Sony personally helped porting Sea of Thieves to PlayStation

[John Elden Ring]

According to Joe Neate, the game's producer, throughout the port's development, Sony helped the team a lot, holding meetings with Rare staff and even providing their own employees whenever they needed them.

Even when the project was still a secret, Sony was already working closely with Rare to make it possible. "If we went to visit their studios, we had to go without wearing a Sea of Thieves T-shirt, as you can imagine why," commented the producer.

“This is the first time in Rare’s 40-year history that we’re developing on a Sony platform, which is incredible. It was quite surreal for us, getting on a call and being presented with a set of slides about a platform that we never thought we would get an opportunity to go ship on. But honestly, for our tech team, it was like: ‘Let’s just get kits in and start experimenting and figuring this out.’ We had them hidden away in a secret part of the studio with frosted windows and no one could peek in. It was excitement as much as anything else.”

via TheGuardian

 

[Cool hand luke]

If people think Rare and other development studios at Xbox got PS5 dev kits just to port over one game then booooy have I got news for you.

 

[panda-zebra]

Season 11 of the game, which launched in January, was developed with the knowledge that PS5 players would be joining soon

 

[Zzero]

If people think Rare and other development studios at Xbox got PS5 dev kits just to port over one game then booooy have I got news for you.

Thats awfully optimistic of you to think they'll get Ever Wild out this gen.

 

[kuzon]

Do these seasons cost or are they just free content updates?

 

[Entropi]

Whatever happened to that pretty cel-shaded game Rare announced many years ago?

I was getting it for my Xbox, but I’m glad I will get to play it on PS5 instead if it ever comes out.

 

[JAHGamer]

I would've got this if it had a physical release

Whatever happened to that pretty cel-shaded game Rare announced many years ago?

I was getting it for my Xbox, but I’m glad I will get to play it on PS5 instead if it ever comes out.

Everwild, it was (is?) in development hell. The game got rebooted twice in development, and the team had no idea what they even wanted the game to be lol.

Everwild Development is Reportedly 'A Real Mess'

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[Gods&Monsters]

Good for Rare devs for finally being able to deal with a real gaming company but, as usual, Sony is way too nice with Microsoft after they publically trashed them for over 2 years and hoped for their bankruptcy.

They better have in writing MS is pulling out of the console market and they won't go after them in the future for a better cut on PSN.

 

[Nhomnhom]

This is probably why Sony felt so comfortable just coasting and taking no risks, canceling so many games, not announcing anything, they have known Xbox is dead for a while. Shame.

 

[Danja]

Sony getting cozy with the enemy. I hope they realize what Microsoft end game move is and don't get complacent.

 

[JAHGamer]

Sony getting cozy with the enemy. I hope they realize what Microsoft end game move is and don't get complacent.

their end game is to go full 3rd party MS is barely an enemy anymore, they've surrendered. Sony's only real enemies are Nintendo and Valve

 

[Danja]

their end game is to go full 3rd party MS is barely an enemy anymore, they've surrendered. Sony's only real enemies are Nintendo and Valve

Yah the end game is the go full 3rd party and eventually eye more big publishers.

 

[JAHGamer]

Yah the end game is the go full 3rd party and eventually eye more big publishers.

I don't think Sony cares as long as they all end up on PlayStation. And if regulators won't stop it then there's nothing Sony can do about that anyway.

 

[Danja]

I don't think Sony cares as long as they all end up on PlayStation. And if regulators won't stop it then there's nothing Sony can do about that anyway.

As long as Microsoft has a console hardware they need to care and it seems they still are keeping them at arms length so that's good for now.

 

[Gediminas]

Good for Rare devs for finally being able to deal with a real gaming company but, as usual, Sony is way too nice with Microsoft after they publically trashed them for over 2 years and hoped for their bankruptcy.

They better have in writing MS is pulling out of the console market and they won't go after them in the future for a better cut on PSN.

more like 20 years.

 

[ethomaz]

So Sony was laughing for months with all the rumors

 

[xollowsob]

If there was any doubt about Microsoft not going third party, it has just been kicked out of the building.

Imagine Microsoft putting games on PSVR2. Or am I an Xbot for wanting that? Avowed and Indiana Jones did look like VR games then again Sony would have to open PSVR2 to PC-like architecture. But there's no plans for that...

I hope Sony isn't coasting though.

 

[Entropi]

I would've got this if it had a physical release


Everwild, it was (is?) in development hell. The game got rebooted twice in development, and the team had no idea what they even wanted the game to be lol.

Everwild Development is Reportedly 'A Real Mess'

Rare's Everwild was announced back in November 2019 at X019. Everwild executive producer Louise O’Connor last year said the most [...]

www.vgchartz.com

Damn, why even show something lol. Bummer.

 

[Bryank75]

Thats awfully optimistic of you to think they'll get Ever Wild out this gen.

Haven't you read the threads around here? We are a forum of optimists.

 

[Kokoloko]

Good for Rare devs for finally being able to deal with a real gaming company but, as usual, Sony is way too nice with Microsoft after they publically trashed them for over 2 years and hoped for their bankruptcy.

They better have in writing MS is pulling out of the console market and they won't go after them in the future for a better cut on PSN.

Agreed. More like a decade+ of trashing lol.

Id say it started heavy when Xbox 360 came out and the media was full on against Japanese companies and how Sony was dying.