PlayStation Nation |OT| Playing Astro Bot on the Horizon Until Dawn

[GymratAmarillo]

It's funny to see people freak out because of the news of PS opening a new studio that will help other studios who are developing services.

First of all they already have 3 studios that help other studios. San Mateo, Malaysia and XDEV. They have 4 if you include nixxes, they were very involved in the Horizon remaster but I personally still haven't seen a description that says they actually went beyond porting and optimizing. Second, even after restructuring they still had 4 services in development by Media Molecule, Bend, Guerrilla and Haven. After Bungie acquisition and the COD guy joining Sony they had 7. Marathon from Bungie, COD guy game (assuming it's a service) and the MOBA from the new studio that is build with people Bungie needed to fire but Sony didn't let go. Those games were already there before Concord and Astro, if there is a change of any direction it will happen at the same time of those games releasing.

I actually see this as a good thing for two reasons:
- This team can help to get the games out earlier.
- Taking people from Bungie actually takes economical pressure from them, creating the chance of stopping Bungie from firing more people and those that now work directly for PS will still work for Bungie.

So if people were talking and lamenting about the industry and people being fired then this should be good news. I like to see things from a human perspective but also from the developer perspective because I'm a developer and I still think Concord was a total miss yes but this wasn't Sony fucking up a good game like some influencers want to sell *cof* Maximillian dood *cof* Concord is/was just a mediocre game made of terrible ideas, plain and simple. That is a situation where the developer actually failed and If someone has to be accountable about it, it has to be the devs just like many of us have paid in the past for our own mistakes at work.