| PayaV87 said: C) Bend is working on a Vita title and The Last of Us port. |
LoU ported to Vita and PS4?
| PayaV87 said: C) Bend is working on a Vita title and The Last of Us port. |
LoU ported to Vita and PS4?
RolStoppable said:
Best. Pun. Ever. |
ROFL. I did it by mistake. It was TYPO. But its hilarious. lol.
| the-pi-guy said: Why do you feel that way? |
I'd say PS3 had arguably the strongest year of its entire life this year; which is great, except it seems to have come at the expense of early support for the PS4 and any support at all for the Vita. PS3 didn't need as many games at it's gotten this year; it's been complete overkill. Which is great for me as a consumer, but not great for Sony as a company.
I just feel his priorities are wrong. He's happy to give Naughty Dog; SSM etc. a free pass on not developing anything for handheld consoles; which would be fine if he were mandating other studios to focus on them. But he isn't. Bend apparently are now switching to PS4; Studio Liverpool & Zipper Interactive both got shut down after making Vita games.
It's just a mess, imo. The Japanese arm is now bombarding Vita next year (Soul Sacrifice; Over my Dead Body 2; Freedom Wars; Gravity Rush 2) after neglecting it for 2 years; yet they've got nothing in the pipeline for PS4. Meanwhile, western studios are all clamouring to get games out for PS4 despite most of them missing the launch; and not one of them has any Vita projects on the go.
| Kresnik said: Bend are only a ~ 60 person team. That's enough for handheld games; but they'd struggle to make an AAA console title with that amount of people. Strikes me as a strange decision. They might just be assisting Naughty Dog with a PS4 project in the same way that Guerilla Cambridge will have been assisting the main GG team with Killzone Shadowfall. Unless they're rapidly expanding, of course, but they'd still need to about double their team. |
Weren't Guerilla Cambridge being HELPED on Mercenary?
I am very dissapointed if this is true. Sony already have action/adventure games from ND, SCE Santa Monica and Ready at Dawn. Make some Vita games!
Wasn't LBP made with like a team of less than 20 at Media Molecule? I think its very possible to create a AAA game with a smaller team, it really all depends on what they are doing.
Bend is pretty versatile as a dev. I wouldn't mind a full on Syphon Filter reboot on PS4. Would not be opposed to them working on Uncharted 4 either if it means Naughty Dog is freed up to make TLOU2 or a new IP. I think they were proven worthy.
I will be sad if they are not also working on a Vita title (whether it be another Uncharted or something else). Sony needs more core teams that actually pay attention to the handheld. They really should be forming similar systems to what they did with Geurilla and Cambridge. They unified them, so while one works on PS4 the other works magic on Vita, and they both still feel cohesively connected. Killzone Mercs feels like a KZ game no doubt. I'm sure being tied to GG they had a better focus. Bend should get tied to ND in the same Little Bro fashion.


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One less vita developer then. I mean, it's a good decision. All of us know that the PS4 doesn't have enough games, and that the Vita has loads of them.
| IsawYoshi said: One less vita developer then. I mean, it's a good decision. All of us know that the PS4 doesn't have enough games, and that the Vita has loads of them. |
the PS4 doesnt have enough games? what are you talking about?

That's cool, they've been kind of rebuilding themselves on handhelds the past couple of years. I was hoping they would do another Uncharted Vita game, maybe Naughty Dog will make a Vita handheld game!!!! Wishful thinking I know.

Kresnik said:
I just feel his priorities are wrong. He's happy to give Naughty Dog; SSM etc. a free pass on not developing anything for handheld consoles; which would be fine if he were mandating other studios to focus on them. But he isn't. Bend apparently are now switching to PS4; Studio Liverpool & Zipper Interactive both got shut down after making Vita games. It's just a mess, imo. The Japanese arm is now bombarding Vita next year (Soul Sacrifice; Over my Dead Body 2; Freedom Wars; Gravity Rush 2) after neglecting it for 2 years; yet they've got nothing in the pipeline for PS4. Meanwhile, western studios are all clamouring to get games out for PS4 despite most of them missing the launch; and not one of them has any Vita projects on the go. |
I've been bitching about this for a long time now. Every single 2013 PS3 first party game should be a Vita game. Every single one. If they did that, Vita would be in a totally different place now, with millions more in the wild and 3rd parties actually having a market there. Instead they overkilled the PS3 with so many games that in most cases they couldn't even sell as well as they should. Stupidity, the guy responsible for this should be fired.
OT: This is sad news for me. I love U:GA, it's my favourite Vita game and I was looking forward to the next Vita game from Bend. I guess now there really isn't that much to look forward to. Just the two late ports of a mediocre Spiderman and Borderlands 2. Wow! That's bound to move shitloads of hardware.
Seriously, how can Sony still allow their teams to ignore Vita the way they do? And after that they are surpriced we aren't buying Vita? They need to give us 8-10 AAA first party games in a single year. I understand that the nearest future is going to be PS4 focused, since they hold MS by their balls, but they have to return to Vita at some point and sooner rather than later, so they better have some Western support coming.
Either way, I still feel that remote play will kill any form of support for the console.
Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!
My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/
My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.
pezus said:
Vita has loads of them? What is he talking about? Kidding. Vita actually does have loads of games! |
misread what he said, now i look like a dork :/
