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New AAA PlayStation Studio established in LA
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I see the Concord team landed on their feet.
Fbh
Member
You still need someone to write the prompts though.
I'll send my resume to Sony
I'm sure a senior AI artist position at Sony will pay better than my current job
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saintjules
Gold Member
You're lucky we don't get karma points on here
Angry_Megalodon
Member
FIREFLOP
"The professor says fuck fans,
fuck what they want,
queer games are fire
it's your fault they flop"
"The professor says fuck fans,
fuck what they want,
queer games are fire
it's your fault they flop"
They are just guessing that since the studio is set in LA the game will be DEI inspired/ woke.
saintjules
Gold Member
What a ridic claim to make. And we don't even know the game yet.
Gaming will never be what it used to be will it?
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Kinda agree. Think it's time for them to move on from TLOU for a while game-wise at least. And Horizon...well I quite enjoyed HFW and the game is a technical marvel, but at times it almost feels like they're pushing it at the expense of IP the majority would rather see get that treatment.
Bloodborne is a great example, and I'm sure now something like Astro Bot is up there too.
-Super expensive
-Hollyweird infestation
-Lots of creatives out of touch with most regular people
-Mecca for divisive hard far-left political propaganda in a lot of Western entertainment
Imtjnotu
Member
Where do you think Santa monica and insomniac is located
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Yes, it's like they only focus on Horizon, TLOU, God of War and Spiderman...
I mean, I love Gravity Rush because of Kat and how fun it is, but there comes a time when it's annoying to see Aloy and Ellie all the time. I want to see what Japan Studio was like.
And Los Angeles, for God's sake... why not in Japan?
Jinzo Prime
Member
Yeah, we know.Where do you think Santa monica and insomniac is located
It's California so I can understand why someone would think that way but yeah folks should wait to actually see the game before judging that the game will be no good.
Correct. Gaming will never be what it used to be. A mixture of good and bad progress.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Platforms and publishers complain about ballooning development costs, yet they continue to pick one of the most expensive places to live, pay taxes, and build in the world.
Nintendo's Witch
Member
This is gonna be fire.
bundylove
Member
Oh the all inclusive left that isnt inclusive when you are straight or white or gun owner or support bodily autonomy .
Cant blame them though. They got brainwashed in universities with the woke virus.
Also love how they are all about supporting the black communities but none of them even have a single black friend AND they burned down all the black businesses in all the riots.
Bunch of fake nobodies that want to live off my taxes and dont want to contribute in any way other than cause racebaiting and division.
Oh i will call you professor but you dont want to know under what circumstances.
bundylove
Member
No normal business would ever set up anything in california unless they have some strong affiliation with that goverments policies.
Meaning we already know what agenda to look out for .
But as you said why pick the most exoensive places? So you can claim we are over budget but more than half of that goes to personal expense?
Not sure how to tie my experience to this example but maybe this will ooen some eyes .
We do some projects for big goverment enities . Lets just say the budget is not the actual budget , cost is not the actual cost.
When we bid on a job and get close, in order to seal the deal we have to do some scammy shit. We get requests to mark up the job and to allocate that difference to the manager or owner or share holder at completion. So if a job is 100k we budget and price 130k and out of that 30k goes into someones pocket. The amount of kickbacks we have to do in order to secure the jobs is insane. And its all tax payer funded.
Now you know how some people in the goverment if not all become rich and people become poorrer every day.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Exactly.
They are the ones who pick the place, people and agree on product dev, strategy and marketing. Nobody is forcing them to do things.
How many other industries in the world the past 5-10 years have product budgets that zoom up like video games and movies/TV (ie. hilarious She Hulk TV show at $225M for 9 episodes). Costs have gone up due to inflation, short supply of raw goods and interest rates, but not like many media companies. It's like theyre in their own stratosphere. And that's despite software not being like physical product makers whose costs get nailed by port strikes trucker shortages, raw ingredient and commodity costs going up. Things pretty much out of their control. And costs are still reasonably in line.
Who knows. Maybe the costs of software dev tools, renting servers, and pressing discs all tripled the past 5 years. But I dont get a sense that has happened.
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CompleteGlobalSaturation
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rickybooby87
Member
I was getting ready to bag on them, but on their site I did finding something rather interesting:
XBOX games Technology Group
• Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
"Can I interest you in our new Aloy Studios™ ?"
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yurinka
Member
It's the PS Studios team from LA with the former Deviation employees:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/it-l...l-working-with-at-sony.1664836/post-268727841
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/rumo...y-jason-blundel-new-ip.1670409/post-269180237
It isn't, the TLOU Online game was being made at ND and got cancelled. This is a team with mostly ex-Deviation employees.
No, the PS Studios team that branched out from Bungie is in Bellevue, Washington. Like Bungie and Firewalk.
The team in the OP is a LA team with ex-Deviation staff.
There are talented gamedevs around the world. But these ones were already living in LA working in Deviation. And before in many top tier shooters such as CoD.
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bundylove
Member
Its money laundering nothing more.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Ah. I totally missed or forgot about that old Gaf post about Deviation staff.