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sales2099 on 05 February 2020
DonFerrari said:
sales2099 said:

Isn’t FF7 a timed exclusive? Regardless the first step is matching their capabilities. With the exclusives gap this gen, this is a milestone in itself, that’s all I am saying 

Now this is preference, but the only Horizon worth a damn this gen is Forza Horizon 4 ;)

Having same number of studios is nowhere the same as matching their capabilities, not even in the number of developers, much less on the experience and quality of the team.

Right, as I said given the gap this is a win in itself. At the very least it’s progress, can’t deny that. 



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DonFerrari on 05 February 2020
sales2099 said:
DonFerrari said:

Having same number of studios is nowhere the same as matching their capabilities, not even in the number of developers, much less on the experience and quality of the team.

Right, as I said given the gap this is a win in itself. At the very least it’s progress, can’t deny that. 

Yes it is progress and I'm very interested on the output and for sure would like that they do very well. May not like Halo for example (not a FPS fan or multiplayer person) but it is a very important franchise with a lot of fans that deserve to be well served.



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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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KBG29 on 05 February 2020

Sony seems to be on a misson to kill everything I loved about PlayStation. The death of PlayStation Vue was already bad enough, now they have killed off their only 1st Party Studio dedicated to the creation of AAA PSVR titles.

This is just not the same company I bought into with PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3, Music Unlimited, PlayStation Home, 3D, PlayStation Move, PS4, PS Now, PS Vue, and PSVR. Sony has completely changed between 2017 - 2020, and I don't like this new direction at all. They have a few incredible, industry leading AAA titles coming out of SIEWWS, but they are under delivering in every other aspect. Very disappointing.



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DonFerrari on 05 February 2020
KBG29 said:
Sony seems to be on a misson to kill everything I loved about PlayStation. The death of PlayStation Vue was already bad enough, now they have killed off their only 1st Party Studio dedicated to the creation of AAA PSVR titles.

This is just not the same company I bought into with PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3, Music Unlimited, PlayStation Home, 3D, PlayStation Move, PS4, PS Now, PS Vue, and PSVR. Sony has completely changed between 2017 - 2020, and I don't like this new direction at all. They have a few incredible, industry leading AAA titles coming out of SIEWWS, but they are under delivering in every other aspect. Very disappointing.

Studio dedicated to releasing exactly 0 games.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

mjk45 on 06 February 2020
Machina said:
shikamaru317 said:
This makes the 5th UK first party studio that Sony has closed in the last decade. The other 4 are Guerrilla Cambridge, Evolution Studios, Studio Liverpool, and Bigbig Studios.

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Those two still hurt, especially Studio Liverpool, since that effectively killed the WipEout series. Sent out to die by being drafted to work on a DoA-in-the-west handheld. They hadn't made any bad games either.

long live Psygnosis .they should bring studio liverpool  back in that guise I well remember their  8 and 16 bit games under Ian Hetherington and like you said wipeout.



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