Started on Ratchet and Clank A Crack in Time yesterday on PS3.

Game feels pretty refreshing - was the game built on a completely new engine from Tools of Destruction? Cause everything looks and feels (control wise) better.

Also Quest for Booty felt like a downgrade overall but A Crack in Time is hitting all the right buttons for me.

I have a Thrustmaster that was the official GT5 wheel (T500RS), and it still works fine for GT7 (on PS4 version) and GTS, so you should do fine with G923.

I think SIE is in a really incredible place right now. 

A lot of growth studio wise (Housemarque, Nixxes, Bluepoint, Valkyrie, Firesprite, Savage Game Studios, Haven, Bungie)

I think they're doing more experimenting than they have since probably the PS3 era. I think the PS4 era was missing a lot of partnerships. There are some notable examples like Bloodborne, Death Stranding, and a few others. But I feel like outside of those, they didn't have any amazing second party titles. I feel like the PS3 era was a lot broader in that regard. Japan Studio, San Diego, Santa Monica helped out with tons of third party games during the PS3 era. 

I feel like there's a much bigger push to get that back this gen than there was last gen. We have Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, whatever that scifi RPG is. Partnerships with Firewalk, Deviation Games. 

And it feels like there's even more to come.

Not to mention a ton of expansion amongst Sony's first party. Santa Monica working on something new. Sony Bend working on something new.

Neil Druckmann interview.

Some notable things:

He was talking about that he was interested in telling stories more through gameplay and less through cinematics. (He specifically brings up Elden Ring and Inside, but he talks about those moments in The Last of Us.)

He also talks about how ND likes to move on and not get stuck working on the same IP.

I fully expect Factions 2 and TloU3 will be the last games in the series. If the former is successful they can continue on story that way.

But I'm excited for what ND do next. A sci fi version of UC world even be enough for me

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-last-of-us/season-1?ref=hp

First genuinely good live action game adaptation, baybee!

I wouldn't be surprised if more games get made, but I think at that point, Naughty Dog will pass it off to someone else. 

I feel like Neil is setting up the expectation that their next game will be something new. I feel like we'll see TLOU Online => New IP => TLOU 3, and Uncharted reboot from a partner studio somewhere in there.

Some of the leaders behind the Forza Horizon series have launched a new studio in Leamington Spa. It's building a open world AAA premium game for consoles and PChttps://t.co/BI0i1vKRTx

— GamesIndustry (@GIBiz) January 10, 2023

Some leaders at Playground games just split from MS to form a new studio called Maverick. They site a lack of risk taking at their former job as the main reason. This could be a nice buildup studio similar to Haven. Maybe Sony will do a partnership with them in the future.

Big chance of they using the window of opportunity of a lot of consolidation to make their studio and sell out in a couple years.

But 80%+ of Horizon's sales across Europe were not part of a bundle

— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) January 10, 2023