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RPG on 09 December 2008
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Gamerace on 09 December 2008

I'd put DC Online as Moderately Unsafe. It costs a lot to hosts MMOs and since consoles have never really had any MMOs this is a higher than normal cost risk. DC is high profile, yes but Marvel is bigger yet and their MMO is already cancelled. Plus videos of this game have been far from impressive so far. Old MMOs like Guild Wars look better than this does IMO.

M.A.G. may be unsafe for similar reasons. I don't know if it'll cost more to host a 256 person game or not. If it does then I expect them to re-evalute this one too.



 

Rainbird on 09 December 2008
RPG said:
Rainbird said:
How would the deal with Eat Sleep Play become a burden to Sony?
And the only titles I see as unsafe are Eyedentify, Eyepet and the games we do not yet know of (which is why we don't know them, as Sony still has the option of canning them)
If any of the other titles you mentioned go, Sony would be throwing too much money out of the window in terms of development expenses.

 

But think about it, tthe games you just mentioned must have tiny budgets compared to other games, no way would Sony drop them because so little money is being spent on it.

Don't get me wrong, I only think Eyedentify could go because we saw it at E3 '05, and Sony could have easily just phased it out. Which also seems to me what they have actually done (instead of actually announcing it, like they did with Eight Days). And if Eyepet were to go, it would be because Sony wanted their studio workforce to be working on something else, in other words, the game is expendable.



DKII on 09 December 2008

Most games that get canceled are ones we've never heard of.



Rainbird on 09 December 2008
Gamerace said:
I'd put DC Online as Moderately Unsafe. It costs a lot to hosts MMOs and since consoles have never really had any MMOs this is a higher than normal cost risk. DC is high profile, yes but Marvel is bigger yet and their MMO is already cancelled. Plus videos of this game have been far from impressive so far. Old MMOs like Guild Wars look better than this does IMO.

M.A.G. may be unsafe for similar reasons. I don't know if it'll cost more to host a 256 person game or not. If it does then I expect them to re-evalute this one too.

I think it would be too late for Sony to can MAG, it would hurt their image, considering they made a big deal of it at E3 '08.



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Star Scream on 09 December 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
This is legend's second thread in 2 days predicting doom of SONY's or a stealthy predictions of doom for sony

 

Yeah, he's been posting a lot of anti-Sony rubbish lately...



Munkeh111 on 09 December 2008
DKII said:
Most games that get canceled are ones we've never heard of.

Indeed, I would assume Eight Days and the Getaway were just the tip of the iceberg in terms of cancellations, though I would assume those two got much further that most of the other cancelled games



Loud_Hot_White_Box on 09 December 2008
RPG said:
Which games from 1st/2nd party have Sony lost money on? I see some melodrama is going on upon hearing about the job cuts, a whole 5% of the workforce to be gone by April 2010. :O

No studio is going to be sold off, especially when just one game (GT5) would pay off any dev costs of the other first party games in development.

 

+1.



Zucas on 09 December 2008

Yea more than likely it'll be titles they haven't shown us.



Darc Requiem on 09 December 2008

It doesn't make sense for Sony to axe 1st/2nd party titles. These titles are the easiest to make money off of. Instead a $10 per game licensing fee, 1st/2nd party titles around $35 per game. I can understand Sony cutting back on third party exclusives but they'll need their 1st and 2nd party titles to pick up the slack.