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poklane on 22 March 2016



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GribbleGrunger on 22 March 2016
JRPGfan said:
Weird choice... they couldnt really have been loseing money on the studio (drive club sold well enough right?).
Maybe the future game development just didnt look intresting enough?

"We have too many raceing games.. lets put these people to work on other stuff."
^ my thinking.

I don't think that's how it would have gone down. Evolution specialised in racing games. It was their passion.



 

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JRPGfan on 22 March 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
Insider over at GAF:

'Hope everyone lands on their feet.

For what it's worth, spoke to someone close to the studio, mentioned to me there's positive news coming out of this.'

Everyone is put to work, on gran turismo?



Nautilus on 22 March 2016

This must be result of Driveclub poor performance overall, and since Sony as a whole is still recovering from its recent struggles.Still sucks since Sony dosent have alot of first party studios



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Qwark on 22 March 2016

Oh well it was expected anyway, British developers are nowhere near certain of a job.



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konnichiwa on 22 March 2016

Similar like Lionhead. It just makes more sense to go to a third party and ask them to make a game for you also better for the game industry. It is sad for the people working at evolution studios.






GribbleGrunger on 22 March 2016
JRPGfan said:

Everyone is put to work, on gran turismo?

That's almost too obvious that it's likely what will happen. That will be the good news.



 

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poklane on 22 March 2016

An update was/is scheduled to release today as well...

Nautilus said:
This must be result of Driveclub poor performance overall, and since Sony as a whole is still recovering from its recent struggles.Still sucks since Sony dosent have alot of first party studios

Troll post?

1. Japan Studio (can work on multiple projects at the same time)
2. Polyphony Digital
3. Naughty Dog (can work on multiple projects at the same time)
4. Bend Studio
5. San Diego Studio (can work on multiple projects at the same time)
6. Santa Monica Studio (can work on multiple projects at the same time)
7. Sucker Punch Productions
8. PixelOpus
9. Guerrilla Games Amsterdam (can work on a full project + prototype at the same time)
10. Guerrila Games Cambridge (based on job ads they have at least 2 projects in development)
11. London Studio
12. North West Studio
13. Media Molecule



Qwark on 22 March 2016
Nautilus said:
This must be result of Driveclub poor performance overall, and since Sony as a whole is still recovering from its recent struggles.Still sucks since Sony dosent have alot of first party studios

 

They got plenty, just not in Europe anymore they still have media molecule and guerilla games (Amsterdam and Cambridge) in Europe. And housemarque which produces practically exclusive Sony titles. In the US Sony stI'll has sucker punch, Santa Monica, Naughty Dog and a few others. Not to mention second party deals Sony has at this moment.



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GribbleGrunger on 22 March 2016

Having read a little more, I don't think this is the end of DRIVECLUB, just a new driver in the cockpit.



 

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