The Guardian got a peek into what Sony London is up to. Some tidbits in there, most notably that contrary to rumour, Eight Days is in fact ramping into full production now. The Getaway is in pre-production, and will go into full production once Eight Days is complete.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/28/sonylondon
The torch and ball demos just sound like the old demos they've had for ages..but the whole drawing stuff (ala that tank game) could be neat if it made its way into a full eyetoy game.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/28/sonylondon
Haigh leads us on a tour of the London Studio, starting on the second floor, where the Eye Toy team resides. Sony hasn't yet confirmed it is making a version of Eye Toy for the PS3 and its new PlayStation Eye camera, but heavy hints are dropped, suggesting that in the "medium-term" just such a game will be released, and we see some interesting technology demos that use a torch and polystyrene ball as a pointing device, and also recognise pictures that you draw this, the team points out, would let you use Eye Toy to create your own landscapes and environments.
The torch and ball demos just sound like the old demos they've had for ages..but the whole drawing stuff (ala that tank game) could be neat if it made its way into a full eyetoy game.
Moving up from floor to floor, we see Eight Days which is just ramping up to full production. To get an idea of the scale of development required on next-gen consoles, the team, currently numbering 63, will expand to about 80 with
a further 40 or so outsourced workers. A small team is working on pre-production for the next iteration of The Getaway, in preparation for being joined by the bulk of the Eight Days team when the latter is completed.