Why Sony is Surpassing Nintendo in Game Development?

[NJ5]

wholikeswood said:

NJ5 said:

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.

 

I didn't say they'd stop entirely, just that something has to give. They will most likely reduce the number of employees, the question is what the impact will be (i.e. how many and which studios get closed/merged/downsized).