Exactly, which is why it is annoying to see all the fanboys blaming Sony Liverpool for them being closed by Sony. Sony management has changed twice since they closed the studio in 2012 and the new management is correcting the bad decisions made previously by Sony. Yet the fanboys get all triggered when anyone mentions Sony making a mistake and hoping that they don't make it again.
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"I don't think one way or the other about Psygnosis."
Then why the hell are you commenting about Sony Liverpool?
To be fair, your list is highly selective that leaves out games that disprove your point while also including non first-party games. Will you at least admit that God of War, The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, and (to a lesser extent) Spider-Man are all extremely similar games? That is almost half of Sony's first party studio output right there. Returnal has a lot more in common with them than previous Housemarque games like...
Probably not, since The Getaway was developed Team SoHo - not Studio Liverpool - which was then merged to become London Studio.
If you have PSVR, you definitely should give London Studio's 2019 game Blood&Truth a try. London Studio originally planned the game to be another installment in The Getaway franchise and so it shares many of the same themes.
"If Sony "mismanaged" them before why would they be interested in being bought buy Sony now?" If Sony Liverpool was studio of poor developers, why would Sony want to buy them back now?
Sony closed down 3 studios back-to-back in 2012 - all of them developers for the PSVita. It was easier for Sony management to throw the developers under the bus for poor Vita game sales than admit that they mismanaged the Vita and the studios working on it. Sony sent th...
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That is really an oversimplification of everything since it excuses Sony's involvement in the matter and shifts the fault onto the supposed "bad apples" of Sony Liverpool. Sony closed 3 studios back-to-back at the time so it clearly wasn't the fault of the employees at the studio. Instead, Sony had just failed with the Vita and closed just about every studio that made games for it instead of acknowledging that it was Sony's bad business decisions that doomed the Vita. ...
So Sony closes Studio Liverpool and the former members found Firesprite only to be bought up by Sony 9 years later? Hopefully Sony doesn't mismanage them like they did with Studio Liverpool (can't be the employees fault since they created a 250+ person after Sony fired them).
You don't get credit for cleaning up the mess you created.
Quit being a fanboy.
1743d ago 5 agree6 disagreeView commentInappropriate
Every collector's edition for PS5 that Sony puts out will only come with a digital copy of the game. That is the consequence of having a digital-only version of a console. You think not having a physical disc in a collector's edition is dumb - how about buying a collector's edition that comes with a copy of the game that you cannot play on your discless console?
Sony is not going to start punishing gamers based on which version of PS5 they have. All PS4 and P...
How soon before we can stop blaming Covid for things that have been happening long before it? While Covid didn't help, video game delays have been a running joke for the entirety of last generation. Horizon: Zero Dawn was also delayed from 2016 to February 2017. https://blog.playstation.co...
Either you can't read or you really do think that you should be able to shoot people with guns in a LEGO game since that is the game mechanic that "they limited." Perhaps use your imagination next time and imagine that you are shooting people with guns GTA style in a LEGO game.
LEGO City Undercover is an amazing game and one of the best in both LEGO games and games on the WiiU (except for the load times).
"“I don’t like that he reviewed a game on my preferred platform badly. I want him banned!”
That’s why N4G is cancer."
That has nothing to do with it, but thanks for trying. Quarter to Three also gave Forza Horizon 2 a 1/5 and Halo 3 a -1/10. Do you support those scores like you do their score of 1/5 for Rift Apart?
Tom Chick only cares about stirring up controversy to create clicks. That isn...
FU Sony, I'm done with you. You offered just a fraction of PS4 owners the option to buy a PS5 directly and instead of opening it up to more PS4 owners, you instead want to sell the same PS5 owners another PS4.
"So for the race between the Xbox Series X|S and the PlayStation 5 has been fairly tight but with a bit of speculating it’s not hard to see Microsoft pulling ahead thanks to their stable of IPs" Is being outsold 2:1 the new definition of "fairly tight"?
"I know it’s early to say this but the PlayStation 5 is already seeing a bit of a software drought" If this is what you call a drought, what the hell do you call what is going on with XBX righ...
Oh look, another poorly thought-out opinion piece by Morgan Lewis and his continued attempts to tear down Sony. This time he wrote an entire opinion piece praising XBox just so he could attack Sony. I guess the PS5's massive success and that it is outselling his beloved Nintendo Switch gets us these gems - "Sony has not shown any reason to own the console at this point though" and "Nintendo sold gamers on their hardware. Sony has yet to do this. They fail to evolve when e...
I wouldn't take these images too seriously. The Microsoft Flight Simulator just says Xbox Series X but still has Smart Delivery on it as well. I gave up on XBox case design making sense a long time ago.
"I don't think one way or the other about Psygnosis."
Then why the hell are you commenting about Sony Liverpool?
@chinchilla
To be fair, your list is highly selective that leaves out games that disprove your point while also including non first-party games. Will you at least admit that God of War, The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, and (to a lesser extent) Spider-Man are all extremely similar games? That is almost half of Sony's first party studio output right there. Returnal has a lot more in common with them than previous Housemarque games like...
Probably not, since The Getaway was developed Team SoHo - not Studio Liverpool - which was then merged to become London Studio.
If you have PSVR, you definitely should give London Studio's 2019 game Blood&Truth a try. London Studio originally planned the game to be another installment in The Getaway franchise and so it shares many of the same themes.
That is really an oversimplification of everything since it excuses Sony's involvement in the matter and shifts the fault onto the supposed "bad apples" of Sony Liverpool. Sony closed 3 studios back-to-back at the time so it clearly wasn't the fault of the employees at the studio. Instead, Sony had just failed with the Vita and closed just about every studio that made games for it instead of acknowledging that it was Sony's bad business decisions that doomed the Vita. ...
So Sony closes Studio Liverpool and the former members found Firesprite only to be bought up by Sony 9 years later? Hopefully Sony doesn't mismanage them like they did with Studio Liverpool (can't be the employees fault since they created a 250+ person after Sony fired them).
1739d ago 2 agree20 disagreeView comment
For those interested in Firesprite history - https://www.ign.com/article...
Every collector's edition for PS5 that Sony puts out will only come with a digital copy of the game. That is the consequence of having a digital-only version of a console. You think not having a physical disc in a collector's edition is dumb - how about buying a collector's edition that comes with a copy of the game that you cannot play on your discless console?
Sony is not going to start punishing gamers based on which version of PS5 they have. All PS4 and P...
The photo mode isn't exclusive, you just get a "special pose and face paint" to use in photo mode.
@Doge
How soon before we can stop blaming Covid for things that have been happening long before it? While Covid didn't help, video game delays have been a running joke for the entirety of last generation. Horizon: Zero Dawn was also delayed from 2016 to February 2017. https://blog.playstation.co...
Either you can't read or you really do think that you should be able to shoot people with guns in a LEGO game since that is the game mechanic that "they limited." Perhaps use your imagination next time and imagine that you are shooting people with guns GTA style in a LEGO game.
LEGO City Undercover is an amazing game and one of the best in both LEGO games and games on the WiiU (except for the load times).
@1nsomniac
"“I don’t like that he reviewed a game on my preferred platform badly. I want him banned!”
That’s why N4G is cancer."
That has nothing to do with it, but thanks for trying. Quarter to Three also gave Forza Horizon 2 a 1/5 and Halo 3 a -1/10. Do you support those scores like you do their score of 1/5 for Rift Apart?
Tom Chick only cares about stirring up controversy to create clicks. That isn...
and you just proved his point.
With all due respect madam, where are you going with this?
FU Sony, I'm done with you. You offered just a fraction of PS4 owners the option to buy a PS5 directly and instead of opening it up to more PS4 owners, you instead want to sell the same PS5 owners another PS4.
"So for the race between the Xbox Series X|S and the PlayStation 5 has been fairly tight but with a bit of speculating it’s not hard to see Microsoft pulling ahead thanks to their stable of IPs" Is being outsold 2:1 the new definition of "fairly tight"?
"I know it’s early to say this but the PlayStation 5 is already seeing a bit of a software drought" If this is what you call a drought, what the hell do you call what is going on with XBX righ...
Yes, it is. The PS5 is the fastest selling console ever in the United States, in both units and dollars.
https://n4g.com/news/241241...
Oh look, another poorly thought-out opinion piece by Morgan Lewis and his continued attempts to tear down Sony. This time he wrote an entire opinion piece praising XBox just so he could attack Sony. I guess the PS5's massive success and that it is outselling his beloved Nintendo Switch gets us these gems - "Sony has not shown any reason to own the console at this point though" and "Nintendo sold gamers on their hardware. Sony has yet to do this. They fail to evolve when e...
I wouldn't take these images too seriously. The Microsoft Flight Simulator just says Xbox Series X but still has Smart Delivery on it as well. I gave up on XBox case design making sense a long time ago.