PlayStation Studios Development

[Legend]

I'm pretty tired of people assuming that since they remastered SotC and demons souls that their original game will have to be like those games.

why does copying someone else's code to make a remaster limit what bp can create for their first original game?!?!?

if bp is to be successful they need to find their own voice and not be a copy cat studio. 

Playing it safe is, well, safe.

Bluepoint will make whatever they make but most studios have a clear progression with their games. Returnal for example was very original but it has lots of housemarque dna.

[kitler53]

Playing it safe is, well, safe.

Bluepoint will make whatever they make but most studios have a clear progression with their games. Returnal for example was very original but it has lots of housemarque dna.

sure, returnal had DNA of their previous games,.. all of which were their original IP.   

bp only has remakes and remasters which have none of their "DNA" in it.   SotC isn't even like demon's souls in terms of the games they are remaking.  

[Legend]

sure, returnal had DNA of their previous games,.. all of which were their original IP.  

bp only has remakes and remasters which have none of their "DNA" in it.   SotC isn't even like demon's souls in terms of the games they are remaking.  

I feel like you're wanting to argue with someone else and just used my first post as a jumping off point.

Bluepoint might play it safe or they might not, we don't know.

[the-pi-guy]

Sony Interactive Entertainment filed trademarks for Astro Bot on August 25 in Europe:https://t.co/IoWZq9goTnhttps://t.co/7vSaTQ1SsY pic.twitter.com/U5d4rYkhoh

— Gematsu (@gematsu) August 28, 2023

Shouldn't this have been filed years ago?

[Legend]

Sony Interactive Entertainment filed trademarks for Astro Bot on August 25 in Europe:https://t.co/IoWZq9goTnhttps://t.co/7vSaTQ1SsY pic.twitter.com/U5d4rYkhoh

— Gematsu (@gematsu) August 28, 2023

Shouldn't this have been filed years ago?

https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/018006679

They already had the game trademarked. This is for "Astro Bot" on its own.

[the-pi-guy]

https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/018006679

They already had the game trademarked. This is for "Astro Bot" on its own.

But is the timing normal?

[Legend]

But is the timing normal?

Could be a sign they have a new game in the works.

[the-pi-guy]

Could be a sign they have a new game in the works.

There is the optimism I was fishing for.  

[kitler53]

not sure if I hope for VR or not VR.   

I'd buy the game regardless but 1 requires a neat but mostly useless expensive peripheral. 

[Legend]

not sure if I hope for VR or not VR.  

I'd buy the game regardless but 1 requires a neat but mostly useless expensive peripheral.

Maybe I missed something but Humanity might be the only new game for PSVR2 since its launch games, and Humanity is just a 2D game with a vr mode.

If Astrobot 2 isn't VR exclusive then what the heck is Sony thinking.

(a new PSVR2 game launches tomorrow, CrossFire Sierra Squad)

[the-pi-guy]

Maybe I missed something but Humanity might be the only new game for PSVR2 since its launch games, and Humanity is just a 2D game with a vr mode.

If Astrobot 2 isn't VR exclusive then what the heck is Sony thinking.

(a new PSVR2 game launches tomorrow, CrossFire Sierra Squad)

Firewall Ultra launched just a few days ago.

[the-pi-guy]

Bend Studio - Working on something new.

Bluepoint - It's almost funny how little there is about what they're working on. You can make an educated guess based on job listings for a bunch of the other studios. Bluepoint's job listings are always incredibly generic. "We're looking for a Systems Designer, you design systems."

Firesprite - still hiring for their Multiplayer Action (that is rumored to be Twisted Metal) and a Dark Horror narrative action game. Not sure when we'll see these.

Firewalk - Concord (2024)

Guerilla Games - seems to be developing every Horizon idea under the Sun.

Haven - Fairgame$ (TBA)

Housemarque - No idea here. Guessing something like Returnal. Will probably be a 2025 game.

Insomniac Games - Spider-Man 2 coming soon, Wolverine (probably a late 2024/early 2025 game), some kind of multiplayer title, and there is still the Ratchet and Clank directors that are unaccounted for.

London Studio - making that fantasy combat game.

Media Molecule - winding down Dreams development and working on something new. Very much looking forward to it.

Naughty Dog - seemingly working on TLOU 3?, might be helping with an Uncharted externally, and probably a new IP. TLOU Online as well.

Nixxes - apparently working on Remasters more and more.

Polyphony - GT forever.

San Diego - MLB forever

Santa Monica - Cory's game, probably looking at a new God of War, and maybe also a God of War 2.5

Savage Game Studios - Some mobile game

Sucker Punch - they're looking for people familiar with GoT combat. So seems like a safe guess. Probably a 2024/2025 game.

Team Asobi - working on Astro Bot, hopefully we'll see more about this one soon.

[kitler53]

Housemarque - No idea here. Guessing something like Returnal. Will probably be a 2025 game.

LOVED returnal but it doesn't feel like a game that needs a sequel.  honestly it feels like it would be hard to find room to make a sequel for this game.   housemarque used to make a bunch of very similar playing games but technically different IP games because it had a different name.   i'd wager that's going to be their direction still.  


Media Molecule - winding down Dreams development and working on something new. Very much looking forward to it.

i finally got around to playing  dreams a bit.  it's pretty terrible.   all of the worst parts of LBP (bad user generated content) and it didn't even have a fun MM made campaign.  the campaign was well polished and all but it lurched from place to place with no cohesion as the focus was clearly being an "instruction manual" for things they wanted other people to try making.   soo glad i didn't buy this game.

[the-pi-guy]

Housemarque - No idea here. Guessing something like Returnal. Will probably be a 2025 game.

LOVED returnal but it doesn't feel like a game that needs a sequel.  honestly it feels like it would be hard to find room to make a sequel for this game.   housemarque used to make a bunch of very similar playing games but technically different IP games because it had a different name.   i'd wager that's going to be their direction still.  

My wording was a bit goofy there. Not necessarily meaning a Returnal sequel. More so meaning a third person cinematic game that evokes Housemarque's arcade style of gameplay.

[kitler53]

My wording was a bit goofy there. Not necessarily meaning a Returnal sequel. More so meaning a third person cinematic game that evokes Housemarque's arcade style of gameplay.

i got that.  i'm pretty much agreeing with you here i just wrote longer sentances.  

i'm expecting an "alien nation" to "nex machina" kind of thing:

the games are technically different IP and the nuance of the game mechanics aren't beholden to each other.   ..but like,.. clearly 1 is built on top of the other from a techncial perspective.