remember_spinal
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Thats an insane amount of devs for a 3rd party game. Most studios aren’t even that big
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Around 150 people from PlayStation VASG + Malaysia worked on Callisto Protocol
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Thats an insane amount of devs for a 3rd party game. Most studios aren’t even that big
Heisenberg007
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If that many PS people contributed to it, it should have been an exclusive game, or at least a timed exclusive.
Perhaps PS is looking at a potential studio acquisition with this partnership.
Perhaps PS is looking at a potential studio acquisition with this partnership.
GhostOfTsu
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Sony really believes in this new studio and franchise...
lh032
I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
jimbo giving gamers more choices.
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vaibhavpisal
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Is this contractor work?
Outsourced by Striking Distance Studios?
If yes, hopefully they will use different brand than PlayStation. Else it will get diluted.
Outsourced by Striking Distance Studios?
If yes, hopefully they will use different brand than PlayStation. Else it will get diluted.
remember_spinal
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What will get diluted?
vaibhavpisal
Member
This looks like outsourcing work.
"PlayStation Studios Visual Arts"
Does not look like first party support or anything like that. Full fledged game development. Used to be work of no name studios so main studio stays in spot light.
Isnt Striking Distance owned by Krafton? Company behind PUBG?
remember_spinal
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I dont think sony is interested in purchasing them just seems like outsourcing work, they did it for ea and capcom also
The benefits of having so many good support studios in house
The benefits of having so many good support studios in house
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Yeah, was going to ask weren't they also on the ea jedi fallen order credits?
If The Callisto Protocol will be successful, good luck with that
I honestly don't think Sony is targeting devs like that with their future purchases. They will probably buy another "live service" studio.
vaibhavpisal
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If The Callisto Protocol will be successful, good luck with that
I honestly don't think Sony is targeting devs like that with their future purchases. They will probably buy another "live service" studio.
They should scoop up Square Enix ASAP.
This drama if Final Fantasy 7 R will come to other platforms is just BS.
Yeah. I totally forgot about SE.
But Sony does not need to buy them. SE is already Sony's bitch.
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Snowdonhoffen
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I've always thought marketing deals not always mean just paying some cash and call it a day, this is probably one example of it. Sony probably let them use their Visual Arts studio for free + some other expenses and in exchange they got that sweet marketing for the game.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
That only works if Sony pays you.
When you pay Sony the ball is in your court.
Just like with Jedi Fallen Order, this was outsourcing work.
Krafton have the money Sony have the staff.
PDSG will work with anyone on practically every part of entertainment if you provide the dollar or incentive.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Are there any news yet about NG+ and that it works like in Dead Space games?
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Heisenberg007
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I think it's a new independent studio.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
They do rent out the mo-cap studio to select partners, but I don't remember PS Studios developers actually helping me active development and being credited in games like this before.That only works if Sony pays you.
When you pay Sony the ball is in your court.
Just like with Jedi Fallen Order, this was outsourcing work.
Krafton have the money Sony have the staff.
PDSG will work with anyone on practically every part of entertainment if you provide the dollar or incentive.
Over 150 developers are too many, and that almost makes it look like a second-party game, e.g., Bloodborne (FromSoftware/Japan Studios).
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SSfox
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I mean this guy is the father of super iconic Dead Space.Sony really believes in this new studio and franchise...
Panajev2001a
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Death Stranding had a lot of Guerrilla devs, but I suspect Sony would want to keep VASG busy (internal or external, helps industry relations wise too, and helps pay the bills plus helps with employee retention as they keep working and being exposed to new projects and develop themselves) and happy (especially after TLoU Part I was mostly brought back in house at ND and not a VASG project only).
SSfox
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Nonsens and ignorant comment. There are a lot of SE games that releases on Nintendo and even some on Xbox. Even some of SE games are excusive or time exclusive for Nintendo since years.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Might want to look at the credits of Jedi Fallen Order.
Over 100 Sony developers worked on that too.
The Malaysia studio was setup as a support studio.
The PDSG studio(s) are straight up outsourcing studios.
You are going to be seeing more of the PDSG studios in the credits of games (both first, second and third party multiplatform) cuz Sony invested alot in them.
The Malaysia Studio is also going to be in the credits more until they earn their stripes and are able to do their own production.
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This is the new paradigm of AAA game development, studios are gonna be sharing resources constantly.
If you have ~100 employees free, and another studio asks for help, you will hand them over....and itll keep happening.
I dont expect to see MS and Sony studios working together.
But third parties are gonna use and be used constantly.
Which is what a bunch of devs were alluding too even when Crystal Dynamics came on the Perfect Dark project, people in the know have basically predicted relatively large studios are gonna be collaborating on projects because these projects are absolutely massive at this point, and having free empoyees is basically a waste of money (they still need to get paid and get work) they might as well be used by a third party to actually do something.
Crystal Dynamics had ~100 employees not actively working on any projects so they were lent to Microsoft.
PDSG will work with whoever effectively.
The Malaysia studio is a support studio and they werent doing anything or were contracted by Krafton.
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Lunarorbit
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Not really. It's a throw away post that shows how much disarray se can get in to. They are all over the place and Sony works with them the bunch especially since Nintendo fucked them in the 90s with ff7
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Heisenberg007
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Oh I didn't know. Thanks for the info and correction!
balls of snow
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Pretty much my thoughts yeah.
TrebleShot
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Hopefully some really good performance modes because of this.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Visual Arts Team doesnt work on optimizations.
And yet, when info was published that Eidos Montreal is working alongside Playground Games on Fable, people bitched, that Microsoft can't seem to get their first-party studios in order so they need to work with another studio and laughed away Matt Booty's suggestion, that collaboration between studios will be future of game development
Roman Empire
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That's interesting, to say the least. A lot more devs than I'd have given credit to. I guess they really needed that hand from Sony but who'd have thought it went to this extent? Now I'm more interested if this will set a precedent for more collaborations of this size with newer studios.
Thirty7ven
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It will become more and more common, Sony will own the ILM of gaming.
FoxMcChief
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I think it might be the other way around, with Sony paying for timed exclusivity.
DeepEnigma
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They'd be designated to mobile shovelware if it wasn't for Sony funding their console projects. They already sold off all of their western IPs and studios.
remember_spinal
Banned
And they’re beginning to take investors for their internal studios, its clear SE is terrible in regards to actual business. I doubt any of their big AAA games would be launching anytime soon or in the state their in without SIE’s “moneyhat”
FoxMcChief
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That’s kind of my point too though, they got Sony paying for content, with less out of their own pocket.
ChorizoPicozo
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Just be mindful those devs were paid with Call Of Duty's money.
Thirty7ven
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TGO
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That's kinda funny then
Tripolygon
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Kuranghi
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I think 30hz+RT@1440p and 60hz@1440p-1620p is likely after they showed the RT mode in a dev diary, but I hope it has a non-RT 30hz native 4K mode as well.
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