Roughly half of Evolution Studios (Driveclub) faces redundancy.

[Qwark]

kitler53 said:

Qwark said:
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I wouldn't call anything above a million made by a not so big studio a poor performer excluding digital ofcourse. Motorstorm 1 and Motorstorm 2 where pretty awesome and more important pretty unique, with so many diciplines blowing yourself up volcano's and water. Driveclub is also pretty great at least now it is and it has some pretty good sales. 

To simply put it if evo is done making racing games, there is not a single studio to fill the gap, since liverpool is also closed. PD is only making GT and since GT is not arcade that studio doesn't count. It's not always standard to ditch people after you're done most of the time you start up a new project. Especially considering the people who where fired wheren't just freelanchers but also employees who worked on Sly at cetera. 

ms apocolyse wasn't a million sellar and 2008 is an aweful long time ago to have to go back to their most recent "sucessful" game.

...and regardless of gameplay in your opinion, GT and DC have a too much overlap to justify both.

Since GT isn't coming out anytime soon DC has as much right to be alive as any other Sony game, although Driveclub 2 wouldn't be that smart surely 2 studios who focus on racing games can survive. And since Driveclub already outsold every motorstorm game except one I wouldn't call the studio unnecesary since Driveclub is a succesfull game critically and comercially it has some reputation problems but that didn't stop it from generating sales. Unless you think Apocolypse is moe succesfull than Driveclub, the franchise got overused.

But after 5 years in the freezer a new chapter in the form of part 2 could defenitly make a succesfull game since there isn't anything like it yet. The last mororstorm dates from 2009 and sold a million, so it isn't that bad of a franchise. Concidering this game isn't going to be made anytime soon is a shame, because even though layoffs happen 55 people at once is pretty much.