Team Ico is working on this game in tandem with Sony Santamonica. Its still coming.

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I side with the company that makes the most quality titles. Generally thats all based on opinion, but Sony's scores on their first party speak for themselves. Rarely anything lower than a 7 and a lot of their games are starting to have replay value beyond single player mode. In my opinion Microsoft is a great business company, not a great game company. They have changed gaming through OS, yes this is a fact, but other we could say that started with them helping Sega with the Dreamcast. Halo is a great shooter, but its all Microsofts got. So if Microsoft never bought Halo from under Apples nose would you play the game on a mac? Gears is finite and cannot be put on the same pedestal as Mario whom can have infinite games because the focus of the game is simplicity not a drawn out story. For sophisticated stories they must eventually all come to an end unless its tailor made to expand. The Halo world has a set universe and everyone thought it would end at 3, but I am guessing it will get to six. The halo universe will eventually run out of gas as well. Sony knows some of their games will run out of gas so why not make more experiences. When you watch the "Long Live Gaming" sequences you see what Sony is all about. Microsoft has admitted they dont take risks in making new IP's. Smart, but even then the tried 90% of the time they failed. Sony has quite a few games that have come out this gen that will be stuck in the minds of Playstation owners. Microsoft will still have Halo and Nintendo will relive the late 80's and 90's every gen until they create characters for a new generation. Again...all of their top games are top games for a reason, but when its all said and done Sonys always the last company to leave.

nah it really is not that big of a deal...trademarks expire all the time (last year apparently versus trademark also expired). Someone here explained it really well..forgot who tho. Long story short, they have a certain amunt of time (I believe until next year) to prove they are still gonna use it in a meaningful way. No one can just buy the trademark just for the heck of it, they need to show valid reasons as well. So unless sony wants to change the name it's all good

besides sony confirmed the game is still in development post this news also

And to reclaim the trademark rights Sony will have to pay for it again. And these are again unnecesary expanses.

I don't think the expenses related to something like this is significant enough for sony to worry :D Team Ico will be around in the future as well I think. Sony japan needs some big changes. Sony understands this too, hence why they sent that guy who was in charge of santa monica over to Japan studios. So I'm hopeful. IF Team Ico can expand, and bring out games every 3 years or so, it will be a huge strength to sony.

Significant or not, if something loses money its bad. But it is not out yet so we don´t know.

well to be fair, it's a small team. I would also be very interested to know how much the game will end up costing to make and if it brings profit. This is the kind of game that will move hardware too so it might be hard to judge but yeah. Hope everything ends up ok. I don't mind seeing this as a ps4 title either at this point, as long as it comes out good