Neodegenerate said:
SuperBott said:
Sony has closed Evolution Studios, Guerrilla Cambridge, SCE Studio Liverpool, Bigbig Studios and Zipper Interactive in the past few years.
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And yet they still manage to have robust and respected first party studio offerings. That is the key difference.
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Beat me to it, but yeah. Essentially while managing multiple studios it's inevitable that some will be closed, either because of reshuffling, disappointing sales, redundancies etc.
However to close a studio of the level of Lionhead, which has been more historically relevant to the industry than any that Sony closed, after trying, and failing, to turn Fable into a game as a live-service, is quite disheartening.