What have the Playstation Studios been doing this entire time?

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Here's a comprehensive list of Sony's first-party studios, including both active and closed ones, along with the last game they released:

Active Studios​

  1. Naughty Dog
    • Location: Santa Monica, California, USA
    • Founded: 1984
    • Acquired: 2001
    • Last Game: The Last of Us Part II (2020)
    • Current Projects: unannounced projects? (gamesradar) (Push Square).
  2. Insomniac Games
    • Location: Burbank, California, USA
    • Founded: 1994
    • Acquired: 2019
    • Last Game: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023)
    • Current Projects: Marvel's Wolverine (gamesradar) (Push Square).
  3. Sucker Punch Productions
    • Location: Bellevue, Washington, USA
    • Founded: 1997
    • Acquired: 2011
    • Last Game: Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
    • Current Projects: Unannounced projects, likely a sequel to Ghost of Tsushima (Push Square).
  4. Guerrilla Games
    • Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Founded: 2000
    • Acquired: 2005
    • Last Game: Horizon Forbidden West (2022)
    • Current Projects: Expansions for Horizon Forbidden West and other unannounced titles (gamesradar).
  5. Santa Monica Studio
    • Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Founded: 1999
    • Last Game: God of War Ragnarök (2022)
    • Current Projects: New action-adventure title led by Cory Barlog (Push Square).
  6. Polyphony Digital
    • Location: Tokyo, Japan
    • Founded: 1994
    • Last Game: Gran Turismo 7 (2022)
    • Current Projects: Continued support for Gran Turismo 7 (gamesradar).
  7. Media Molecule
    • Location: Guildford, UK
    • Founded: 2006
    • Acquired: 2010
    • Last Game: Dreams (2020)
    • Current Projects: New unannounced project (gamesradar).
  8. Housemarque
    • Location: Helsinki, Finland
    • Founded: 1995
    • Acquired: 2021
    • Last Game: Returnal (2021)
    • Current Projects: Unannounced projects (gamesradar).
  9. San Diego Studio
    • Location: San Diego, California, USA
    • Founded: 2001
    • Last Game: MLB The Show 23 (2023)
    • Current Projects: Next installment of MLB The Show (Push Square).
  10. London Studio
    • Location: London, UK
    • Founded: 2002
    • Last Game: Blood & Truth (2019)
    • Current Projects: Recently Closed down
  11. Haven Studios
    • Location: Montreal, Canada
    • Founded: 2021
    • Acquired: 2022
    • Last Game: N/A
    • Current Projects: New live-service IP (gamesradar).
  12. Bend Studio
    • Location: Bend, Oregon, USA
    • Founded: 1993
    • Acquired: 2000
    • Last Game: Days Gone (2019)
    • Current Projects: New IP (gamesradar).
  13. Bluepoint Games
    • Location: Austin, Texas, USA
    • Founded: 2006
    • Acquired: 2021
    • Last Game: Demon's Souls (2020)
    • Current Projects: Unannounced project (gamesradar).
  14. Team Asobi
    • Location: Tokyo, Japan
    • Founded: 2021 (spun off from Japan Studio)
    • Last Game: Astro's Playroom (2020)
    • Current Projects: Unannounced project (gamesradar).
  15. Nixxes Software
    • Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
    • Founded: 1999
    • Acquired: 2021
    • Last Game: GOT PC Port 2024
    • Current Projects: Unannounced project (gamesradar) (Push Square).

Closed Studios​

  1. Japan Studio
    • Location: Tokyo, Japan
    • Founded: 1993
    • Closed: 2021 (reorganized into Team Asobi)
    • Last Game: Astro's Playroom (2020) (Wikipedia).
  2. Evolution Studios
    • Location: Runcorn, UK
    • Founded: 1999
    • Closed: 2016
    • Last Game: Driveclub VR (2016) (Wikipedia).
  3. Guerrilla Cambridge
    • Location: Cambridge, UK
    • Founded: 1997
    • Closed: 2017
    • Last Game: RIGS: Mechanized Combat League (2016) (Wikipedia).
  4. Zipper Interactive
    • Location: Redmond, Washington, USA
    • Founded: 1995
    • Closed: 2012
    • Last Game: Unit 13 (2012) (Wikipedia).
  5. Studio Liverpool
    • Location: Liverpool, UK
    • Founded: 1984
    • Closed: 2012
    • Last Game: Wipeout 2048 (2012) (Wikipedia).
  6. Bigbig Studios
    • Location: Leamington Spa, UK
    • Founded: 2001
    • Closed: 2012
    • Last Game: Little Deviants (2012) (Wikipedia).
  7. Incognito Entertainment
    • Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    • Founded: 1999
    • Closed: 2009
    • Last Game: Warhawk (2007) (Wikipedia).
  8. Manchester Studio
    • Location: Manchester, UK
    • Founded: 2015
    • Closed: 2020
    • Last Game: N/A (focused on VR projects) (Wikipedia).
  9. Pixelopus
    • Location: San Mateo, California, USA
    • Founded: 2014
    • Closed: 2023
    • Last Game: Concrete Genie (2019) (Wikipedia).
 
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They have less studios so have to prioritize quality...and quality takes a lot of time unfortunately. Even the GaaS games should be worthy and have longevity.
PS exclusives are full priced so getting atleast 85 metascore is critical for sales.

Unlike Sony, MS can afford to have flops. MS has so many studios and don't really care about selling console. They can release a mediocre game every quarter and say Game Pass if anyone questions the quality. But they have studios like Playground, Coalition, Rare that can make somewhat decent games... and can go multiplat for more revenue.
 
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Fenton said:
They have less studios so have to prioritize quality...and quality takes a lot of time unfortunately. Even the GaaS games should be worthy and have longevity.
PS exclusives are full priced so getting atleast 85 metascore is critical for sales.

Unlike Sony, MS can afford to have flops. MS has so many studios and don't really care about selling console. They can release a mediocre game every quarter and say Game Pass if anyone questions the quality. But they have studios like Playground, Coalition, Rare that can make somewhat decent games... and can go multiplat for more revenue.
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Maybe if they didn't shut down 10 of their srudios (including london recently) that wouldn't be an issue and Sony would have a stronger pipeline.
 
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Likely co developing the PC version in house lmao

It was wild seeing a Spider-Man 2 PC build when Insomniac was hack & SM2 was out for 1-2 month & the PC build was developed long enough for a bunch of random Brazilians got the game to be played on PC.

SM2 will be ported to PC in 2025, it’s comical when talking about PlayStation compared to there direct competitors
 
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Neversummer said:
Likely co developing the PC version in house lmao

It was wild seeing a Spider-Man 2 PC build when Insomniac was hack & SM2 was out for 1-2 month & the PC build was developed long enough for a bunch of random Brazilians got the game to be played on PC.

SM2 will be ported to PC in 2025, it’s comical when talking about PlayStation compared to there direct competitors
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They need to hire those Brazilians ASAP

I'm actually surprised we haven't gotten a Brazil Hero Project,
 
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They have been doing a lot of things:

- Porting games to PC.

- Reworking their scripts to please Sweet Baby Inc.

- Working on canceled GaaS.

- Working on pitches for movies and TV shows.

- Updating their resumes for when they get shut down.
 
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