Sony turned a lack of Exclusive Multiplayer Games to a Strategic Play...

[forevercloud3000]

twintail said:

forevercloud3000 said: 

Sony has purposely not had too many MP only endeavors in their coffers of Exclusives this gen, and it strangely has given them an advantage. I will explain.

Early in this gen there was a rumored Scifi Multiplayer title brewing at Sony Santa Monica. The game was Cory Barlog's dream game supposedly, with a lot of behind the scenes hype about it. 

I think you are giving Sony a little too much credit but they have indeed worked very quickly at letting MP offerings being mostly 3rd party based after many of their PS4 MP games failed to gain much traction. 

 

And it Def works by having their studios more SP focussed. 

Also that wasn't Cory's game. It was Stigs. It was cancelled because it was failing to meet production goals, not because it was similar to something like Destiny.

You are right about it being Stig, not Cory. I will correct that in OP. I do distinctly remember reading that reasons were varied for it's cancellation. Not meeting goals but goal was to differentiate itself from Destiny and or other games(looking at leaked Concept Art that other game would be Horizon Zero Dawn). I can't seem to find any of the original articles with quotes from the ex developers who got layed off that mentioned it.

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-17-art-allegedly-from-sony-santa-monicas-cancelled-sci-fi-ps4-ip-emerges

 

Looking at this concept art now tho has me really bummed they didn't release this game. I think I would be far more interested in this title than whatever Destiny is :(