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twintail on 25 March 2026
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BraLoD said:

I don't see why Sony would have 2 racing games, to me it was clear as they knew GT6 being a PS3 exclusive it would be ok to have another game on PS4 as it would be a while for GT to be there, but once GT was doing good there then it really doesn't make much sense to keep both.

DriveClub didn't sell well when average revenue is taken into account; that was the problem. Evolution having a sales dud with the Motorstorm before it didn't help.

Otter said:
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. 

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 (

DriveClub and GT are 2 completely different racing experiences. They don't look the same, they don't play the same, their overall gameplay loop is not the same. Saying Sony probably didn't see the need for 2 completely different racing games would be like saying Sony doesn't see the need for 2 open world 3rd person action games, and yet they have many of those. 

if DriveClub has been the success they were hoping it to be, Evolution Studios would still be around and DriveClub would probably be on it's second or third game by now. It's strange seeing people look back at DriveClub with rose-tinted glasses: the game was incredibly poor at launch and that is what hurt any momentum it had. Evoultion did a good job patching it up, but the damage had been done at that point.

Japan Studios is a different conversation though. But yeah, they were closed when they failed to be turned into a more traditional first party studio. Japan Studios was mostly a support studio who helped other studios co-develop games. And very few of their successes came from them, but rather other studios.

konnichiwa said:
DekutheEvilClown said:

Housemarque make games. Bluepoint made two remakes using the original base code with new art assets in a new engine. 

Obviously; bluepoint felt atleast as an 0% anyway it better stops here with closures.

I mean, it's not a very good comparison being made in the first place if you ask me.