| Mystro-Sama said: I mean am I the only one to notice? They help all these little indie studios because sooner or later they will be big AAA studios and will always remember that Sony gave them their first big break into the industry which means more exclusives for Sony. And if the talent is too good to pass up they can just buy them for cheap before they get too big and expensive. I even heard Sony acquired ND when it was still and indie and now they make some of the best games in gaming. |
Sony and ND relation is quite unique and interesting. ND aproached Sony with the idea for Crash, Sony bought into that and gave them all the suport in the world and they released the first Crash Bandicoot wich was a major sucess and became the Sony mascot to "fight" Mario. ND than decided to aproach Sony and offer more than just a partnership, they wanted to have the background of a hughe publisher to have more resources to develop theyre games so they proposed that Sony bough the company, Sony did so and decided the best course of action was to just let ND be ND and just found theyre projects, so they stayed mostly hands off anything the studio developed (since that worked for ND Sony applies this aproach with everyone of theyre first parties nowadays, founds theyre ideas but stays hands off mostly letting the studios do theyre own thing).
Sucker Punch shares a similar story, they aproached Sony and ofered to sell after the sucess of Infamous 1, rather than the other way around.
