This is pretty pathetic. All of it.
Sony falls from some SJW journalists who unfairly criticized the game for not having black zombies, focusing on white male bikers and other insane things instead of actually playing the game themselves and looking at the fan feedback. It's a fantastic first game from a studio that typically only made portable games. Now that studio is a support studio???
No, they did support ND (decision taken before Herman was in charge, which also means DG2 pitch was rejected before Jimbo and Herman were in charge) but recently Herman greenlighted them to stop supporting ND and to make their own Bend Studio game instead.
The funny thing is that Death Stranding was a critical hit, but not a commercial hit so they didnt greenlight it either. So if the game wins the most GOTYs in 2019, it doesnt deserve a sequel either. Not sure wtf kinda metrics they are looking at.
We don't know if Death Stranding will get a sequel or not. We know the game was profitable in PS4 and the PC port is also profitable. Kojima will do whatever he wants after Death Stranding. A sequel, a brand new IP, with Sony, with MS or with any publisher he wants, or autopublishing it, etc.
Shocking that they are taking resources AWAY from like one of their 4 productive studios to do a remake that wouldve been done without their involvement. Who here will pick to have ND do a remake instead of a new game? It's shocking how poorly Sony is run right now. Herman Hurst is even worse than Jimbo. No common sense. This will delay every single Naughty Dog game on PS5.
According to the article TLOU remake was planned to be released packaged with TLOU2 PS5. That decision was made before Herman was in charge. The article says that when Herman saw the remake wasn't happy with it, thought they were investing too much on it and decided to reduce its budget and shifted its lead from the new San Diego studio (Visual Ars) to ND (who already were working on it but not as lead) to finish it.
This leaves Sony with like 5 AAA studios.
Naughty Dog
Santa Monica
Insomniac
Guerrilla Games
Sucker Punch
-All these studios are working on multiple games at the same time.
-According to the article Sony Bend is now working on their own game.
-Sony also has other studios like Polyphony or San Diego.
-Sony always had a strong 2nd party AAA output.
Now they are supposed to compete with Microsoft's 24 studios. Hilarious. The Sony as we had come to love it in the PS3 and PS4 era is gone.
- Zipper
- Evolution Studios
- Team ICO
- Japan Studios
- Sony Bend
- Incognito Studio
- PS All Stars studio
-Team Ico was one of the Japan Studio teams.
-Japan Studio continues, but now focused on Team Asobi, another of their teams.
-Sony Bend continues. After DG they did support a couple of ND projects and now are working on their own games
-All these other studios/teams were shut down because nobody bought their games, didn't manage to make a hit or at least be profitable during a ton of time.
3rd Party Studios making Sony IPs
- Ready At Dawn
- Quantic Dream
- KojiPro
- From Software
The Sony today is a shell of what it used to be.
-Quantic Dream mentioned they wanted to go multi but that weren't closing the doors to Sony, that they were open to continue working with Sony in the future.
-Sony published the most recent Kojipro game, which did use Sony's engine and was profitable. We don't know what Kojima will decide to do next, it will depend on him and not on Sony because any other publisher would be more than happy to work with him and will offer him whatever he wants.
-From Software's parent company recently made a deal with Sony, where they asked Sony to help them give their games a more global appeal and to use Sony channels to be more successful outside Japan. In exchange they gave 2% of the company to Sony.
-I loved RAD games including the The Order but that game got bad reviews and sales, and FB bought them.
-Sony now generates more revenue, sells more consoles, sells more games, sell more subscriptions and wins more GOTY awards than they or any other console platform holder ever did in gaming history. And they are in a growing trend, so will dominate even more in the near future