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

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PotentHerbs said:

Lost Souls Aside being bomba of the year is the reality of game development.

Not everything Sony develops/publishes is going to be a smash hit or critical darling. Whether it be a single player game or a multiplayer game. But I'm glad Sony is taking these sort of risks if it means the China Hero Project gets off the ground running. I feel the same about their live service failures that lead to a few quality franchises like Helldivers 2 and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.

China Hero is already a success, the whole point back in 2016 was to for a relationship with the chinese market and industry and these days that's already a reality. Obviously getting a hit would be a great bonus but that will come with time. The third generation looks very promising but still no games have been announced to be under the PS publishing label other than Convallaria from the second gen. 

The best part of all of this is that LSA doesn't affect PS at all. XDEV weren't involved and the money wasn't taken from PS Studios, even better the money used for the project doesn't come from SIE alone, Epic and other companies are partners of the project so the good ol "They could have used that time/money/developers to make ..." doesn't apply here. 

I'm looking forward for Lokko from the India Hero project, it looks super raw and it isn't under the PS publishing but I like the idea of Sony investing in platformers. It was part of their booth at BitSummit this year.