Why doesn't Sony just open more Naughty Dog studios and close all non-Naugty Dog ones?

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Vena said:

JS are on a whole other league in terms of developer talent and creativity when compared to ND. ND is more of a technically superior dev since they work machine rather than devkit.

ND makes competent, linear third person shooters that just about any studio could spit out all the same. They simply have a much better writing group than most studios, and a wizkids working on resolutions/graphics.

Nah. If anyone could spit out the kind of games they make, then I think there'd be, oh I don't know.... other games like them?

 

I do agree that their controls are not THE BEST, but they are (like you said) very proficient with optimization, writing/storytelling, and in my opinion the biggest one, platforming.  It all started with Crash Bandicoot, which evolved into Jak and Daxter, which then progressed into Uncharted, along with TLOU.  You can literally look at each console generation and see how they've consistently pushed and expanded their fundamental elements that make them unique;