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John2290 said:
DonFerrari said:

Let's see how this will play out and if Sony will buy the studio or not. Because I doubt even Kojima being as respected as he is that if Sony didn't basically sustained the studio from the day he left Konami that he would have been able to even start the studio, much less develop this game (where Sony also paid the cost for him to travel the world and research the engine, that funny enough will be on PC, not sure how much tweak he will need to do to make the engine run well on PC).

I guess we'll see Thursday week how it fairs and in in time if KJP will even agree to going first party with success on their hands.

Besides, Sony are targetting timed exclusives and battling MS on the PC side more and more, this is their strategy for a while now. Gain the imediate benifets and perception and then let 2nd party exclusives off to do more benefit and gain them more traction on the PC side. The problem is that this announcement is a slap in the face coming three weeks before the console release. I can't imagine Sony signing off on this unless they expect the game to be a flop and are trying to distance themselves from it which could be the case but I highly doubt it. Kojima has been snubbing people left and right since MGS5 and his head has grown to such massive proportions that he ends up stepping on people, looks like he isn't above stepping over companies that pull him and his team from certain erasure from the industry, AAA side. 

I would say Kojima just decided by himself to give this information on his on and probably in breach of contract. Because if it was supposed to say it will release in PC then they would have said it 3 years ago.

About the other games that are going PC, probably never had in contract that they were permanent exclusives or had some threshold of sales or time that they could release in PC, when QD was basically bought by a publisher it wasn't Sony that made the decision to release the games on PC to combat MS.

twintail said:
DonFerrari said:

Let's see how this will play out and if Sony will buy the studio or not. Because I doubt even Kojima being as respected as he is that if Sony didn't basically sustained the studio from the day he left Konami that he would have been able to even start the studio, much less develop this game (where Sony also paid the cost for him to travel the world and research the engine, that funny enough will be on PC, not sure how much tweak he will need to do to make the engine run well on PC).

Sony arent buying a studio built around a single person who is not in his in young adult days. 

It's such a bad buy that sustaining the relationship makes more financial sense in the short and long term.

But it could happen, though I doubt it would.

He is still quite young and legendary. As long as this game have a high reception and sales it isn't unlikely. No one expected Sony to finally close the deal with Insomniac after so many refusals since PS2, but they did anyway. And who is to say that the rest of the collaborators of the studio haven't learn enough to in a decade steer the ship?



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