Anyone Else Wondering How Naughty Dog Got Studio of The Year?

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the_dengle on 08 December 2013

Of all the conflicting awards given, you choose this one? How about Assassin's Creed winning best Action/Adventure game over both GTA and The Last of Us? How about Brothers winning best Xbox game over three GOTY nominees, including the winner?

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Cj2i3 on 08 December 2013

Wright said:

Cj2i3 said:

Wright said:

ps3-sales! said:
Not really. Rockstar's studio has like 500 people. Of course they made the best and biggest game, they have the most man power.

Naughty Dog is less than 100 people. Therefore, they are an arguably more talented studio. They did as good work with less people.

There are around 300 people working on Naughty Dog xD How do you think they keep up the pace of switching from Uncharted to The Last of Us, and go back to Uncharted now for the Ps3?

EDIT: But in any case, they're less than Rockstar's manpower, that you are right.

300 people you have a source on that? I recall a video where Evan Wells(President of ND) specifically stated he would never consider making his studio that massive. They switch from Uncharted to TLoU by designating a small portion of the team to work on the later project, they don't cut the studio in half like some think.

Rockstar had 5 years and over a 100 million dollar budget to which Naughty Dog probably had half of that budget with 1/4 the size of workers.

GTA5, TLoU, Mario3D, and Bioshock Infinite were all deserving of the award.

Uhhh...I recall wikipedia saying it had 300 people...I could be wrong, though.

Y U TRUST WIKI?!?!

The number probably fluctuates they may only employs 150 at a given time while another 100 or so are on vacation after working tirelessly on a prior project.

idk let Evan explain how things work at Naughty Dog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4MhdJkx5S8

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oldschoolfool on 08 December 2013

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F0X said:
Because it's their award ceremony, and they can do what they want with it.

When did I say they can't? I said it doesn't make sense.

It's a silly awards show. Why take it so seriously. It doesn't have 2 make sense.

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NotStan on 08 December 2013

People still think voting makes a shit difference at these awards? How cute.

However. Rockstar have botched the GTA online launch massively, so they have dropped the ball there, and ND seem to support their games much better, so the award is sort of understandable, but most likely down to the fact that they don't want award domination from one game/studio.

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jakeh14 on 08 December 2013

They just want to spread the award. You should'nt take vgx awards too seriously.

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TheTruthHurts! on 08 December 2013

IMO, they deserve the award, and TLOU deserves game of the year as well. I, at least, enjoyed it the most in comparison to others. But I am not surprised at who the recipients of the awards were.

I never really cared for these awards anyway. Games are subjective to taste, personal interests, and enjoyment vice just sales and reviews.....but I am preaching to the choir.

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BloodyRain on 08 December 2013

Ya, they prob just wanted to award Naughty Dog because of The Last of Us. If they had two goty's then one would have gone to Tlou. Just think of studio of the year as similar to goty, but with a diff title.