The spin is strong in this one.

Jeebus Sony. At least Nintendo had the sense to regulate teams of 6 people to games like Brain Training while still delivering Zelda/Fire Emblem/Battalion Wars/Metroid/Mario within the first year.

Sony just up and canceled everything for EyePet. What a way to abandon the hardcore.

At this rate Resistance 3 will be a chimera pet simulator.

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well is this really suprising? since alot if the success of the ps2 especially in europe was based around eye toy series of games and the singstar franchise, seriously every gilr i knew who had a ps2 all loved singstar and eyetoy guess what there all buying wii's now, although i really was lookibng forward to eight days im afraid the virtual eye pet is the first full proper pseye title and its what sony need rright now to push ps3 inot the casual market, games like little big planet( also appealing to the hardcore gamers due to its creative design), singstar, buzz quiz tv, virtual eye pet, afrika are all meant to dent the wii's success, but its not all doom and gloom look at all the other titles like resitance 2, ffv13, ff13, motorstorm pacific rift, killzone 2, naughty dogs next project, a new ratchet in 2009, heavy rain, socom confrontation and of course gt 5

Look at what Sony London made last gen:

SingStar series - Very well received in Europe.
EyeToy series
The Getaway series - Their only major hardcore titles, looked upon as mediocre by most hardcore gamers.

Casual seems to be all they're good at, so it's no surprise that Sony would have them focus on that area, rather than invest millions on Eight Days.

Okay, all fighting, trolling, flaming etc. in this thread stops NOW!   If you can't be civil, then don't post at all.

No, Sony is NOT abandoning the hardcore. Sony London has always focused on casual games since the ps1 era. This is normal. The only thing you could be mad at Sony for is announcing a title then canceling it, but you should be over this by now, since the game was canceled months ago.

And no, Nintendo is NOT abandoning the hardcore. The titles they've released so far easily prove this (though I admit, I wish they'd announce more stuff soon, just to appease my paranoia - honestly, they've announced almost nothing really compelling in quite some time, but I know they have stuff in the works - just let me see ;_;).

And yes, LittleBigPlanet, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. are ALL casual. But they are also ALL hardcore. They are easily enjoyed by everyone, yet provide real depth should you choose to invest the time (particularly SSBB and LBP). Of course, Mario Kart really leans on the casual side, while SSBB leans heavily on the hardcore side. They have their elements of both, however.

It always begins with one game. Next year it will be more from Sony and maybe even Microsoft will cancel a game. That's truly a vicious cycle.

London Studio developed the PS2 Emotion Engine emulator for PS2 BC in the old 80Gb model, I wonder what the chances are that Eight Days & The Getaway were cancelled so they could work on emulating the PS2 Graphics Synthesizer. Probably not too high after everything Sony have said regarding PS2 BC, but London studio are obviously working on more than just EyePet.

Yeah, they certainly don't have 225 people working on EyePet, lol.