Don't you think Sony First party studios spend too much time & money on ...

[infamous8]

Noobie said:

As far as i believe every Sony first party game studio spend considerable time and effort on first developing a game engine and than a game. and most of the time only two or three games and then either the series is droppped or Sony release a new console.

See the list of Engines

- Infamous developed new engine (only 1 game on it so far)

- GG developed special engine for KZ2 (developed only 1 game on it)

- ND developed engine for Uncharted, (now developing second game on it)

- MM also developed special engine for LBP ( only 1 game on it)

- i think Insomniac also developed special engine for resistance (2 game on it)

- Polyphony i think is developing a new engines for GT5 from scratch..

and many more

the problem i see although few of these engines were necessary but others i feel could be avoided. the most i fear is that many of these engines will become useless when Sony will launch PS4.

So i think Sony waste too much resources on developing the platform/engines which become obsolete or which have to be discarded every generation. PS2 engines can;t be updated to use PS3 Cell Chip.. similarly i believe PS4 will be a totally different architecture (seeing the last three playstations). so if sony can somehow get a way to make its first party game studios to make fewer and better game engines and spend more resources and time of these game studios to crank out games, than it will definitely help Sony a lot. or better yet Sony can develop an ISA for its platstation chip so that atleast these game engines just need updates or modification, and old engines are not discarded at the end of every console generation.

What are your opinion.?

ps. this is just my opinion based on some observation.. and being a naive abt game devleopment i may be technically totally wrong..

Dont worry.

Uncharted engine has been put to good use and Uncharted 2 is coming out this year. I wouldnt be surprised if they release a new Jak and Daxter game using the Uncharted engine.

Ratchet and Clank, as well as Resistance (both from Insomniac) have been put to good use. How many more Resistance games do you think is appropriate on a console that is not even 3 years old. There's already 2 Resistance games. Then there is 1 Full R&C, R&C: Quest for Booty, and another R&C coming out this winter.

I'm sure we will see KillZone 3 by Q4 2010 now that the engine is fully developed.

 

If we're talking strictly engine recycling...CAPCOM is the best (or worst, depending how you look at it). They're using the same engine for Lost Planet, Dark Void, and Bionic Commando. All the games will play the same, but with different characters/weapons/environments. They did the same with Resident Evil and Dino Crisis/Devil May Cry as well. CAPCOM recycles very well, but I appreciate Sony's originality.