That cant be good for Robot Entertainment & Supermassive, can it?
*edit: That ll teach me to not read more than the first page...
shikamaru317 said:
To clarify, these studios weren't acquired by Google, they just signed a deal with them to make some 2nd party exclusives for Stadia. Think of the situation like Asobo signing the deal with Microsoft to develop Flight Simulator, even though Asobo signed a deal with Microsoft for that game, they were still working on other games at the time like A Plague Tale. Another example would be Sumo signing the deal with Sony to develop the new Sackboy PS5 game, even though that game is PS5 exclusive, Sumo has many other teams and those other teams are free to do whatever they want, make 3rd party multiplat games, make 2nd party Microsoft games, etc. As far as we know currently, Supermassive can keep making their 3rd party multiplat Dark Pictures series for Namco Bandai, and the others can also still sign deals with other publishers if they have multiple teams. So this shouldn't kill any of these studios, I'm sure that Google paid them pretty well. If their Stadia games flop, which they probably will, they were still well compensated and can go back to making 3rd party multiplat games in the future. |
So just 2nd party deals for next games... okay then, its not nearly as bad then.
This feels like a waste though, good games are gonna end up dying on Stadia.... unless they do ports to PS5/PS4/XB1/XSX+Y lateron?
