Krusenstern
Banned
I sincerely hope that was a God of War game they cancelled and not a new IP.
Yeah, refuted pretty hard by someone in SSM.
Good luck to those guys affected, really sucks to see this.
Best to those that were laid off.
Probably the group helping out with The Last Guardian.
"This is a result of a cycle of resource re-alignment against priority growth areas within SCE WWS"
Sounds like they canceled a Vita game.
Sanzaru
It feels like people are laid-off or a studio is closed in the West by Sony every six months, but when was the last time someone from that uselessness that are the SCEJA studios has received as much as a slap on the wrist?
Also, how the hell the same budget as GOW3 was given to Ascension? Someone must have sent the memo to Sony Pictures. That's one surefire way to get your stupid ideas approved.
What is Shuhei Yoshida doing?!
So not everything is peachy over at Sony, even with the success of the PS4. Pretty sure they worked on a PS4 title.
He is really a destroyer of worlds
Studio Liverpool and Zipper still hurts so much.
Yeah that guy had alot on his plate.Amazing how much confusion there is around this.
Alan Becker (not sure I got the name right) was assigned to SCEJ (which includes Team ICO) to sort shit out. That's all there is to it.
http://kotaku.com/how-sonys-most-cr..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=SocialflowWhen Becker came back, there were over 40 titles in development at the Japan Studio. Becker had to make the tough calls.
"In some sense, it was great that everyone got to do what they wanted to, and there was this sense of a creative playground," said Becker. "And nothing was getting done. And nothing was selling."
Becker stopped. He said he didn't want to get "too negative." He was not sugarcoating, and this wasn't typical video game PR speak. He explained the situation that he walked into. His honesty was refreshing.
Heh RAD is working on that game not SSM.Lol the hyperbole on twitter. One guy even thinks they canceled The Order 1886.
Hopefully the canceled game was GoW 4.
Getting sick of Kratos, and his story is done anyways. No need to flesh it out with backstory prequels.
hey need to hang him up and move in a new direction with a new protagonist.
I sincerely hope that was a God of War game they cancelled and not a new IP.
Uh, GoW3 was the best selling GoW ever, it only went downhill with the last game (Ascension).
It was probley a low budget PSN ip, people are overreacting(as usual)I sincerely hope that was a God of War game they cancelled and not a new IP.
Reading between the lines this sounds like it is the case unfortunately.I'm actually assuming the project they kept is God of War 4 by Cory Barlog, since I got the impression that Stig's project was just in pre-production for ages while most of the studio made God of War: Ascension.
Ascension was disappointing but that couldn't be the reason, right?
SSM still have multiple PS4 games in the works.
Horrible news. We need MORE PS4 games, Sony, not less. Ugh.
Sure Sounds like the Vita"This is a result of a cycle of resource re-alignment against priority growth areas within SCE WWS"
Sounds like they canceled a Vita game.
Sorry, remaining staff have all been merged into the new God of War transmedia trilogy with Sony pictures and Sony television. All Kratos, all angry, all the time.
I sincerely hope that was a God of War game they cancelled and not a new IP.
Amazing how much confusion there is around this.
Alan Becker (not sure I got the name right) was assigned to SCEJ (which includes Team ICO) to sort shit out. That's all there is to it.
Don't forget the 1886th Order. The milked to the max Knack (probably because of the UK where it's destroying Mario.)Yea I agree with you but something tells me they cancelled the fresh IP in favor of yet another fucking God Of War. It would definitely match up with Sony's MO at the moment of releasing the same shit again another Killzone, infamous, uncharted, etc.
Very unlikely.I sincerely hope that was a God of War game they cancelled and not a new IP.
Hopefully it's a Vita game, the platform is dead and shouldn't be supported instead of the PS4
Sorry Vita Bros
It feels like people are laid-off or a studio is closed in the West by Sony every six months, but when was the last time someone from that uselessness that are the SCEJA studios has received as much as a slap on the wrist?
If even Bend shifted to PS4 last year, I doubt SSM would have kept a Vita project in development through early 2014.
We don't even know if it was a PS4 game. People keep speculating about Stig and Cory's games because those are two we know about, but companies often times have games in development that are canned that people outside of the company never know about unless it's mentioned later down the line. A good example of that is Naughty Dog and Jak PSP. Was it ever even rumored that they were working on that? I sure can't remember it, but it was and Neil Druckmann was on the project. But Uncharted was hitting a rough patch so they quietly canned it and the people slid over to help with that game.
I find the notion that SSM had a team that was working on a Vita-only game a bit odd, but weirder things have happened I suppose.
He is really a destroyer of worlds
Studio Liverpool and Zipper still hurts so much.
Yea I agree with you but something tells me they cancelled the fresh IP in favor of yet another fucking God Of War. It would definitely match up with Sony's MO at the moment of releasing the same shit again another Killzone, infamous, uncharted, etc.
Didn't that Jak game become High Impact's The Last Frontier?
That'd just confirm more ports! YayyWould it help you if it never started? Seems the more likely explanation regarding Vita projects.
And every year. I damn hope I'm wrong.
It could be a Vita game.
Hopefully it's a Vita game, the platform is dead and shouldn't be supported instead of the PS4
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Sure Sounds like the Vita
Sorry Vita Bros
Pray that Seth Killian is safe.
I can't understand first-party closures/downsizing. Sony's got three platforms they're trying to support - don't they need all hands making as much content as possible?
If it's in response to Ascension - the problem with that game was not with the developer, it was with a franchise that had seen its logical conclusion and was fatigued.
Kratos is to Sony what Mario is to Nintendo what Master Chief is to Microsoft.Even in jest, I'm getting little nervous that Sony are about to double the fuck down on baldy rage head, and break are hearts on the big e3 stage.
seriously and I am betting The Last Guardian wont' get good reviews
Damn, more than I expected.