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Why NetEase and Quantic Dream are teaming up for games on multiple platforms
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mckmas8808
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Looks like Cage felt the heat of all the issues he caused last year with the sexual and verbal harassment claims and realized that he needed to get guaranteed funding as fast as possible, instead of hoping Sony would forgive him for their poor work environment.
I do not know how to feel about that. With Sony they had a free pass and could create what they wanted now it will probably a bit different but we will see, with their next game
Not only do I think that Detroit was their best work yet I also would put this easily in my Top 10 GOTY list.
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Threeshotgamer
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Don't you guys have phones? This will probably lead to a mobile game announcement at E3 i'm sure
mckmas8808
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Except they always made games.
FF:Enhanced_Reality
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Crying shame about their decision. Sadly I think Sony might have wanted to distance themselves about the allegations made against the studio.
bitbydeath
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That’s disappointing, no way they’d receive the same funding as they had from Sony to make games, quality is going to dive.
mckmas8808
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This is the 2nd thing I thought of.
mejin
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Welp, Telltale is not alive to tell a tale anymore. lol
They still can make good games with less money, but Cage will miss Sony Worldwide Studios support no doubt.
mckmas8808
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That marketing, stage time, and 1st party toolset help they got is almost impossible to calculate how valuable that all was. What is QD without the long dev time leach, research, and money they got from Sony?
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bitbydeath
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Sure but we’ve seen this before from Evolution Studios to Supermassive Games. The graphical quality suffers moving away from Sony.
RavenSan
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Isn't that like, everything at this point (tencent)
Virex
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luckily not everything
mckmas8808
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Great point! The point couldn't be more clear with those two studios. It's overly clear the help Sony's money and research on tech does for those companies.
I'd say we saw a similar thing with Ready at Dawn too.
They went from this.......
To this........
Salty Popsicle
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Now that Sony has decided to forgo E3, you can check "stage time" off your list of resources that Sony provides. I think QD is making a good choice here honestly. With a 90 million PS4 install base and only 2-3 million copies of their latest game sold, that is a horrible 2.8% attach rate. Multiplatform is the way to go.
Shmunter
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I’m forever stunned Sony is letting devs like this slip through their fingers. QD defines the PS brand.
Closing Evloution Studios, sayonara arcade racing exclusives. Not locking down What Remains of Edith Finch or Rime was also a head scratcher.
To Sony: you’re diverse, high quality line up is why many are attracted to your platform. The 3rd person over the shoulder games are great, but it can’t be all there is. This won’t end well.
Closing Evloution Studios, sayonara arcade racing exclusives. Not locking down What Remains of Edith Finch or Rime was also a head scratcher.
To Sony: you’re diverse, high quality line up is why many are attracted to your platform. The 3rd person over the shoulder games are great, but it can’t be all there is. This won’t end well.
Vawn
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Good graphics, acting and storytelling confuse certain gamers and they literally can't believe what they saw videos of aren't actual video games.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Great Hair
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Good gfx check
Good acting ... wut?
Good story telling ... wut?
Let´s all move to canada! Androids are Welcome here ... Denied Citzenship Welcome to Canada,
"Female US President witness how 2x androids make out on Live TV"
"STOP THE WITCHHUNT!!" "they are clearly capable of empathy!" "they can even sing!"
The schematic gameplay of Detroit was a chore ... rewind please, replay the scene for some "tangible" change. What a load of horse radish ...
Panajev2001a
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If there is a big reason another console base would live it more perhaps. I do not think Beyond sold badly, but if you think it does then there are other problems that spending money to port it to other consoles. QD enjoyed having PS4 HW access before many others and thus more time to fine tune their tech and product around that HW. Going multiplatform for them means rising cost to get the same quality or have to take a hit in their ambitions.
Sad to hear that a story and character based developer did not continue working around a single lstform and making it sing really well but happy more people will get to enjoy their games (sad that it will be the only way for some of those additional gamers to give QD a bit of respect... see NMS right before it became multiplatform and now... a lot less rage
).
Thiagosc777
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NetEase? Can we expect microtransactions in their games now?
mejin
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oh come on, now...Sony will come back full force on 2020.
Agent_4Seven
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hariseldon
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In a way it's a real shame they didn't continue in the direction they started out in with The Nomad Soul (aka Omikron). The first act of that is brilliant, albeit the shooting section is fucking horrible. Nomad Soul feels like a game that could have been amazing with a bit more time in the oven.
HaveButOneLife
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Show me where the gameplay is because most of the time it's either cutscenes or sit back and hit whatever button pops up on the screen.
If you can watch just the cutscenes to get a feeling for how the game may turn out, that's a problem. Only QD could make gamers debate against what constitutes as a game or wannabe movie.
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hariseldon
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This is my problem tbh - Nomad Soul was a game, and it was bloody good (if unfinished). The later stuff, to me, was just QTEs.
Ar¢tos
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QD is not just a gaming studio, they are also one of the best motion capture studio in Europe providing services for cinema and TV. Maybe they will start using money from that area to help fund their games.
mckmas8808
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Sony are really screwing themselves on that E3 decesion.
But on QD, don't forget that xDev has been helping them create QD's games. Who is xDev? They collaborate with independent development studios across Europe to publish content to PlayStation platforms all over the world. In addition to funding projects, XDev offer full production, project management and game design support. Titles are also supported with community management, online production and dedicated outsourcing management facilities. XDev work directly with Marketing and PR teams in all Sony territories to promote and publish games worldwide (per their website).
This is xDev's pinned tweet on Twitter.
They were the research muscle behind the creation of what we seen in Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, and Detriot. I have zero clue what QD can do "technically" without them.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
David Cage: NetEase deal "was about starting a new journey"
Quantic Dream and NetEase joined forces earlier this year, and Cage talks to us about what this means for the studio.
DigitalScrap
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I wouldn't assume that this change would automatically mean less funding for QD. I'm surprised that so many don't seem to realize that Tencent's market cap is MUCH larger than Sony - $429B for Tencent vs.
$65B for Sony. Tencent has PLENTY of money. We'll just have to see what this translates into. QD could have MORE funding with this deal.
EDIT: OOPS. I have no idea why I thought it was Tencent. Carry on. I will leave my post here so everyone can laugh at me.
EDIT 2: Wait, I just looked. Netease has a cap of $836B!? Okay, my original post is valid even more so now that I know how much money Netease has! They have more than 10x the market cap of Sony!
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DynamiteCop!
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They have a $34 billion market cap, where on Earth are you getting $836 billion?
DigitalScrap
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That makes a lot more sense! I really haven't looked into Netease previously. But this is what came up when I did an initial search:
But after seeing your post, I did a search on Bloomberg, and got $33.4B cap. So that initial result that shows up is seriously wrong!
mckmas8808
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That makes a lot more sense! I really haven't looked into Netease previously. But this is what came up when I did an initial search:
But after seeing your post, I did a search on Bloomberg, and got $33.4B cap. So that initial result that shows up is seriously wrong!
Also keep in mind that it's also not about how much money a company has, but how much they give to David to make a game. Are we sure Netease will believe in David the way Sony did? Sony darn near have David a blank check and almost unlimited time and freedom to make his games.
Will Netease do the same?
Silent Viper
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I used to hate QD games but Detroit become Human completely changed how look at QD now coz i was really impressed by Detroit.
Vastly improve game compared to previous QD games.
Vastly improve game compared to previous QD games.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Quantic Dream's PC Releases Signify a Major Shift For the Company
Quantic Dream's PC ports signify the company's intentions to be become a multiplatform developer and "boutique publisher."
www.dualshockers.com
Shmunter
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I’m the opposite. Heavy Rain #1