| RAZurrection said: They've already started marginalising their IPs from last gen. WipeOut HD is an upscaled PSP games and Socom has done away with the singleplayer, The Getaway 3 was canned and isn't likely to surface ever again, they did away with the F1 license. god of war 3 is the last one and Jaks/Sly Coopers' are dead franchises and Insomniac keep hinting they may go multiplatform. At the end of the day with IP's that aren't really sticking to the markets wants and needs, they need to get some better ones or cut back on staff. |
The issue is not with IPs from the last gen. Its with the studios that created them. The studios that created those IPs are universally fantastic (they all proved they weren't one-hit wonders), and there's no reason to believe that Sony would want to get rid of any of them -- unless they had plans to axe some of what are probably Sony's most profitable 8000 employees (SCE) -- of the some 150000 that make up Sony, as a whole.
Sony axed 8000 employees recently. 5% of their workforce, most of them in the flailing electronics division, which is bleeding money. SCE's software studios are *making* money. Why would Sony axe them? They might call for a 5-10% workforce culling across the board, but they will *not* close any studios. They'd be foolish to do so.
Most of Sony's 1st party studios are having a release this coming year. As a matter of fact, if "Ico 3", M.A.G., and God of War 3 all ship in 2009, ALL of them do (unlike previous years). If Sony plans to axe studios, it likely won't be until 2010... and frankly I doubt they would do so, even then.
