PSU writes:
"While the exact nature of Media Molecule's unannounced mystery game (possibly teased earlier today) is unknown, PSU has exclusively learned that the studio is prepared to talk about their next title soon."
IGN writes: "Media Molecule has said the layoffs at the Sony-owned studio have affected plans for ongoing community and curation support in Dreams."
How self sustained can DREAM be when it's basically stuck on PS4? I don't think it's even gotten a PS5 upgrade. Ending support for what is essentially a game making engine is basically death. SONY did DREAMS dirty.
Staff at UK developer Media Molecule have today been told to expect job losses, with around 20 staff expected to be laid off. That's around 15-20 percent of the overall studio.
This sucks. Dreams was so amazing I was sure it was going to be integrated into PS5 in a meaningful way with the intention of fostering creativity in gamers. So disappointing to continue to hear news of that failure. Hope those impacted land on their feet and the studio finds passion in their new project...
Shame, Dreams was a cool concept and well done but it just wasn’t…how do you put it, a traditional game, if that makes sense. Spending so long on this game when in the end it felt more aimed at creators, which is fine obviously but I’d like to see something more traditional from them while another team works on the experimental stuff
I just can’t believe of all the PC ports Sony did Dreams was never one of them, the PC community might have had fun with it.
The problem with Dreams was the barrier to entry... had it been on PC, like I said with LBP so long ago, it would of soared like crazy.
My biggest complaint was the lack of support to create with friends. To my knowledge you still cannot not even create together, let alone play a game together online. How do you not support that on launch... which also leads into the barrier of entry, none of my friends even knew what the heck it was, and it was so hard to show them or get them into it.
Always suck to hear this kind of news.
Hope everything turn for the best for these affected.
Media Molecule Creative Director John Beech talks about making a very personal project in Dreams, available with PlayStation Plus.
Media Molecule, playing your games gives me that child-like level of excitement and intrigue and just hearing about what you guys will be doing next has the same effect
If the PS4 is announced it would be nice to have a MM game waiting for us.
If it's LBP3 then I don't think I'll be able to hold off buying a PS4 too long. I usually do, but the thought of all those amazing possibilities a more powerful console could offer, gets this dull, grey heart pumping
i'm kind of excited to find out what this is.
@ gribblegrunger:
doubt it's LBP3... they've said in the past that they're sort of done with the IP (at least for now), and would like to do other things.
i've no doubt that a new LBP will come out when the new playstation hits the market, but i don't see this mystery game being it.
It don't matter what they are making I will buy it. MM has not let me down so far so I have no doubt in my mind that this will be another great game from them. Just seeing MM name on the game gives me a lot of excitement waiting to hear what is next.