Journey cost “multiple millions of dollars”, no royalties for a year

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badgenome said:

Dgc1808 said:
"It’s actually very similar, we are always ourselves, and no one is really messing around with us. With Sony, it was the same thing,” he said."

So.... WHY???!!! These guys were the ones talking about leaving SONY after the contract was up. Go through this just to go multiplat? Or did SONY not want to employ them anymore? If so, then I get it. It does sound like their cost/output ratio seems unreasonable and SONY may have not wanted more after the deal was up. If that's not the case and they just wanted to go multiplat, then damn.... interesting business decision.

They've said that they just wanted to reach a bigger audience than they could only on Playstation. But after seeing how financially inept they have been and how many of the top people left immediately after Journey shipped, I think thatgamecompany may be pretty much done for. They seem to have achieved Team ICO levels of perfectionism and self-indulgence (albeit while actually releasing games), and I just don't see whatever publisher they're working for now being willing to bend over backwards for them like Sony did.

Agreed  they really need a dose of reality , then again it could be a dose of anti reality and they are aiming to join forces with Fumito Ueda .