Sony: Our first-party dev is as big as Microsoft and Nintendo's combined

http://www.vg247.com/2009/04/07/sony-our-first-party-dev-is-as-big-as-microsoft-and-nintendos-combined/

SCEA hardware marketing head John Koller has claimed that Sony’s first-party development division is as big as that employed by Nintendo and Microsoft. In total.

“Our development studios - the Worldwide Studios team - is as large as Microsoft and Nintendo’s combined,” he said, talking at GDC.

Koller said that Sony’s first-party roster for the coming years would feature a mix of fresh ideas and surefire successes.

“We have a tremendously creative group, and a line-up for the next few years that will bring a lot of new IP to the market, but will also being a lot of [tried and tested] franchises and new iterations to the PS3 in particular, but also PSP,” the exec added.

Koller didn’t give a figure on how many people were employed in Sony’s Worldwide Studio division.

Both PS3 and PSP’s first-party slate for 2009 is looking nice and healthy, with games like God of War III, Heavy Rain and inFamous already hoving into view for PS3, and a new MotorStorm, a LittleBigPlanet SKU and more on the way for PSP.

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i have to agree when all the development starts hitting its stride we will see amazing games from sony studios in coming years.

They just insulted themself....
Their first party dev is a lot bigger then Nintendo, but still Nintendo kicks their asses in the gaming department. Nintendo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sony IN making games. If a Nintendo game sells less then 3M it's a failure.... Unless it's a remake or something. There are a lot of great Ninty games in the work right now like a new zelda,sports resorts,sin&punishment 2, pikmin3, punch out, excite bots, new mario(there's always a new Mario...),etc.. Retro studios is also working on something big.

Ps: Sony is the most arrogant company I've seen in ages... I would say Microsoft as well, but I like Bill gates. It's not like he's evil.

That could well be true, and once studios like Guerilla really get going, the amount of SCE published games is going to be unbelievable, they ones that I can think of is:

America:
Naughty Dog
SCE Bend
SCE Santa Monica
Incognito
Zipper Interactive

Europe:
Evolution/SCE Liverpool
SCE London
SCE Cambridge
BigBig
Guerilla

Japan:
SCE Studios Japan
Team ICO
Polyphony Digital

quality >>> quantity.


talk about small penis syndrome.

I was thinking the same as Samus Aran

Keep development studios small to keep costs low and devleopment cycle relatively short. That've been said thousands time, including Ninty at GDC09. There's nothing to be proud of.

nintendo only have made galaxy zelda and smash bros that are any good. only the main core titles of nintendo are excellent games.

Thats True.

That's highly subjective. For me this gen Ninty 1st party > Sony 1st party, you may think different, that's your opinion. The objective criteria - sales - core and non-core Ninty franchises are selling a lot better than Sony's.

Sales does not equal quality. What is far more important than just the first party, are their second party studios:

Japan

• Level-5 – White Knight Chronicles, Rogue Galaxy, Dark Cloud
• Game Republic – Folklore, Genji
• Q-Games – PixelJunk
• Media.Vision – Wild Arms
• Pyramid – Patapon
• From Software – Demon's Souls

North America

• Insomniac Games – Resistance, Ratchet & Clank
• Sucker Punch Productions – InFamous, Sly Cooper
• ThatGameCompany – Flow, Flower
• Ready at Dawn Studios – God of War: Chains of Olympus, Daxter
• High Impact Games – Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, Secret Agent Clank
• Eat Sleep Play - Twisted Metal: Head On
• Slant Six Games

Europe

• Relentless Software – Buzz!
• Media Molecule – LittleBigPlanet
• Quantic Dream - Heavy Rain
  

N.B. I just got this list from wiki, so they are missing the ex-incognito studio, and there are some here that probably shouldn't