Then go and buy Sly collection.

That really doesnt mean anything. Castlevania Lords of shadow 2 had DLC and wasnt sucessful. Theres plenty of examples i'm sure.

Infamous 2nd son was a next-gen title that had very atractive graphics. I can only assume that for it to break even without DLC it would have to sell 2 or 3 millions. Since it didnt hit those numbers, i question if it was sucessful enough to warrant a sequal. 

Though its quite possible that Sony was willing to take losses on it to sell PS4's, Shu has admited that they dont make a profit on most titles. Anyways its my opinion, i can tell that this back and forth wont lead anywhere. :)

Oh come on ! I missed so many games, dammit !

Now that you're at it, why don't you buy Ratchet and Clank collection as well (unless you have it). But did you not know that Sucker Punch made Sly o_O

I'll buy it towards the end of the year I think (Ratchet & Clank)

And yes, I actually knew they made it, but I kinda forgot, sorry !

Well Naughty Dog got some layoffs lately but how come they increased in size. Sony Santa Monica layed off a lot of people just to hire a new team. A lot of the times when a project is finished there'll be a lot of people leaving the company and fresh meat gets hired. But in this internet world a dozen layoffs mean DOOM and FLOP and FAIL for some reason. Currently Naughty Dog (22) , Sucker Punch (2), Guerilla Games (30), Santa Monica Studios (7), Polyphony (6), REady at Dawn (15) and many more are still looking for new employees. 

Now let's use our brain for a second. 

As you can see Guerilla Games is looking for the most people. Guerilla Games new game moved from pre-production to production which means that they have figured that they need a certain amount of extra people (perhaps with different skillsets) to work on their new game. If they'll use the same engine as Killzone SF which I'm nearly sure off this would mean that they are not in need of that many engine programmers so some of them will get fire or their contract ends and move on to another project (perhaps at SWS or somewhere else). Seeing how Killzone ended Guerilla Games probably figured out that they'll need more gamedesigners and artists to bring their new game to life. 

The reason that Sucker Punch only has 2 open sports probably means that their next project has lifted off or they'll need fewer people to do the Job. They have never been big in the first place and usually range around 100 employees. 

Ready at Dawn and Naughty Dog have a game mid-production that will release within a year. So they'll probably still look for people for their current games and future games. ND has 3 games in development currently.

Evolution Studios has no job offerings currently, why hire people if the project is nearing it's end and pre-production of the next game is still in progress? I bet people will write doomscenarios that they got hit with layoffs after a few months when DriveClub releases when this is something common in every industry. 

It's only been like 5 months, yet you say it will sell bad? It has almost already passed the sales of it's predeccesor, and in only a tenth of the time, fer cryin out loud! It'll be close to, and maybe pass, 2 million by the end of the year. Assuming Sony earns 30 dollars (which is low-balling as they are both the platform holder and the publisher) that means 60 million dollars earned. I'm pretty sure that covers the dev-cost of this game.

Also, 1.5M units sold (retail only, probably around 1.8M with digital) in 5 months on the current PS4 install base is not a bad thing at all.

That's 15% of the PS4 owners owning the game as well. So yeah, Second Son is doing pretty good, no matter what he says.

And after that you must get the Future Trilogy if you don't have it already (Ratchet and Clank)

You said you would totally buy a platformer from these guys, so I'll hold you to that statement, you will totally buy Sly!

I didn't say when :P But yeah, I'll probably look into it ! They look like a lot of fun.

It will depend on how much I liked the first trilogy of R&C games I think, but well, it's not like we're getting a lot of high quality platformers lately, on consoles...

I would love SP and/or ND to make a new big budget platformer. Because yeah, Knack isn't THAT bad and all, but it's not exactly good either...