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| DekutheEvilClown said: Drive Club was a 71 on Metacritic and that studio was on a downward trend. There's some evidence to suggest that Sony value critical reception highly. One of the big issues for Days Gone was that it reviewed poorly. |
I think its a combination of many things including portfolio diversity and team expertise. I'm not a racing genre fan so this opinion may sound reductive but Sony did not need Drive Club when they had GT. At least I think that was a major part of their thinking. All the meanwhile the kind of arcade racing Evolution did previously was not in trend/popularity at the time.
It's such a shame because suddenly Forza comes along and shows that having an epic environment focused/open road racing game does in fact have huge potential. Again I'm not a racing fan but the only 2 recent games that peaked my interest were the first Motostorm and then Forza Horizon 5. I think Motostorm could of had an incredible reboot on PS4 if they grounded it a bit more, the direction they went for 2 and 3 was maybe a bit too arcade-y.
Ultimately I think Sony shuts down established teams when they stop seeing potential in them to making a "hit" relative to their size. Also why I think Japan studios was shut down. They never had an issue making new IPs in the past, they were just all unssuccessful (
