Why Sony is Surpassing Nintendo in Game Development?

[wholikeswood]

NJ5 said:

wholikeswood said:

NJ5 said:
Let's see how this list looks by the time Sony finishes reorganizing its games business.

If you're suggesting that their reshuffle is going to see the end of lots of studios, then I find that unlikely.

SCEWWS is the only profitable sector; why hurt it?

I can see them closing some of the studios that aren't really active anymore, but I don't see the landscape being completely changed.

 

SCE has way too many employees, more than Nintendo in fact. Probably a legacy of the PS2 years. I don't think that number of employees can be justified now, so we'll probably see merged/closed/smaller studios and perhaps less focus on new IPs, and more focus on the sure hits (i.e. Sony's biggest franchises).

 

I really doubt they'll stop developing new IPs, considering the success of franchises like Resistance, Uncharted, Motorstorm and other new IPs like LittleBigPlanet.

After all, they need to keep coming up with new ideas to discover new megatons - new franchises that can rise to the greatness of GOW, etc.