Sony doesn't make sense

[DivinePaladin]

JustThatGamer said:
It's ridiculous how Sony treat God of War and SMS like a second-rate shit.

The God of War series is way bigger than Uncharted, significantly more popular and beloved, just check the size of fan pages on Facebook or Google Trends. Uncharted is a series that owes it's popularity to bundling, holiday releases and huge marketing campaigns.

God of War released towards the end of the PS2s life and it had no support from Sony, the games quality is how it made a name for itself and through word of mouth alone it has become a huge series.

If Sony wasn't ran by a bunch of fucking morons they would've remastered the God of War trilogy ala MCC and made GoW 1 & 2 look more like GoW3 and then when they inevitably announce GoW4 at E3 (they better) they could've announced a demo of GoW4 exclusive to that package.

Bollocks to Sony.

Sony, treating Santa Monica like shit? It's about time! Santa Monica IS the studio, after all, responsible for the lack of support and failure of several incubated titles from 2007-2013, because they pulled a Gearbox and focused their efforts and budgets on their own games rather than helping the incubated teams. 

 

SMS is the studio that lied for five months about the final PSASBR patch, saying it was in development for that long before allocating one person to the patch development for the next five months. This, in the same breath as announcing more GoW: Ascension micro-DLC, when by that point PSAS was still more popular online. This is the same studio that spend six months delaying Twisted Metal's much-needed patch. The same studio who botched Warhawk and Starhawk's mid-term support. The same studio who somehow spent $60 million on Ascension, a game meant to give the main character personality but according to nearly every review just made him boring; a game that had a fairly short story and mediocre-at-best multiplayer despite the inflated CoD-size budget. This is the studio that somehow developed GoW II for PS2 even though they had working PS3 devkits for years, because making a game easier to develop for them is paramount to Sony needing a strong first party PS3 title. This studio thrives on ruining incubated games and developers.

 

So I say THANK Christ if they're getting shafted by Sony. Naughty Dog, despite being just a tad overrated and having some coup problems in Uncharted 4's development, is infinitely more talented and worthy of a trilogy release than SMS.

 

Not to mention the fact that anybody who missed GoW on the PS3 because they jumped to Xbox already likely played 1 and 2 on the PS2. Because, y'know, everybody had a PS2. Or the fact that the hack/slash genre has experienced a massive drop in sales since GoW3 launched, making them harder to justify a high budget for, while shooters have stayed just as popular. And, y'know, Uncharted 1-3 already having 1080p models and textures because ND develops high-res and downscales.