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Shikamaru Ninja

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• Jun 14, 2016

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Most will know that San Mateo, CA is the business and sales headquarters of SEIA, The facility also housed internal technology groups and even Pixelopus. However, SIEA has made it official that SIE San Mateo Studio is now officially handling game production (link) with Spider-Man (with Marvel and Insomniac Games) and Farpoint (with Impulse Gear).

It looks like SIE San Mateo and SIE Foster City are mainly production / co-development studios. But nonetheless this is the first time SIE San Mateo Studio has been named as s full game production studio.

 

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FelipeMGM

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #2

So they are oficially an external development studio now? That is really sweet.

Isnt Pixelopus also housed inside San Mateo offices?

 

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Toki767

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #3

It's cool to see them developing there again. I miss 989 Studios.

 

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Shikamaru Ninja

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #4

FelipeMGM said:

So they are oficially an external development studio now? That is really sweet.

Isnt Pixelopus also housed inside San Mateo offices?

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Yes. Pixelopus is housed in the same facility. They are working on some type of game. Probably another indie like project.

 

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Sangetsu-II

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #5

Basically the Western Version of XDEV

 

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eFKac

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #6

Nice.

Wonder if Pixel Opus is still around? Haven't heard anything for a long time now.

 

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Nightengale

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #7

In many ways, I imagine it's just giving a name to something that's already there.

Some Sony external games do not credit any ex-dev teams, and I imagine that was because it was San Mateo handling it? Like Ratchet.

 

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Nightengale

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• Jun 14, 2016

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eFKac said:

Nice.

Wonder if Pixel Opus is still around? Haven't heard anything for a long time now.

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They are. Scott Rohde commented on them last year at PSX, I believe.

But that is a small indie team. And we've seen how long games can take for indie teams.

 

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FelipeMGM

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #9

Sangetsu-II said:

Basically the Western Version of XDEV

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San Diego and Santa Monica especially (they even publish these games) also do the XDEV part in NA, and they have been doing for a long time.

Shikamaru Ninja said:

Yes. Pixelopus is housed in the same facility. They are working on some type of game. Probably another indie like project.

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Yeah, I figure SIE San Mateo will get them some support on development as well

 

AudioEppa

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #10

Good shit, the future is looking mighty nice.

 

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SomedayTheFire

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #11

Not just a renaming of Pixel Opus?

 

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Shikamaru Ninja

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• Jun 14, 2016

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FelipeMGM said:

San Diego and Santa Monica especially (they even publish these games) also do the XDEV part in NA, and they have been doing for a long time.

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SIE is producing so many first-party games with external developers, that they have to grow their production studios.

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Not just a renaming of Pixel Opus?

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No PixelOpus isn't a production studio, but a small experimental developer with a relationship to Carnegie Mellon University. Almost like a USA Playstation CAMP.

 

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Kasper

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• Jun 14, 2016

• #13

I imagine this doesn't really change anything and just puts a name on the service they were already providing. However, hopefully this means that San Mateo will expand and get involved with more developers big and small.

 

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FelipeMGM

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• Jun 14, 2016

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Shikamaru Ninja said:

SIE is producing so many first-party games with external developers, that they have to grow their production studios.


No PixelOpus isn't a production studio, but a small experimental developer with a relationship to Carnegie Mellon University. Almost like a USA Playstation CAMP.

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Yeah, and I love this. So many games in so many different genres, SIE has been doing a great job on picking the projects this gen, we just need a bit more of them to launch lol.

Really hope that Wattam and Edith Finch are launching soon

 

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Shikamaru Ninja

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• Jun 14, 2016

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Kasper said:

I imagine this doesn't really change anything and just puts a name on the service they were already providing. However, hopefully this means that San Mateo will expand and get involved with more developers big and small.

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Might be relieving some of it from Foster City Studio (who was actually involved in a lot of the PS2 Classic ports).

 

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SomedayTheFire

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• Jun 14, 2016

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Shikamaru Ninja said:

SIE is producing so many first-party games with external developers, that they have to grow their production studios.



No PixelOpus isn't a production studio, but a small experimental developer with a relationship to Carnegie Mellon University. Almost like a USA Playstation CAMP.

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Didn't realise. Thank you.