Believe it or not, the PlayStation 3 was released nearly four years ago, and since then the console has been graced with hundreds of great titles. Therefore, over the next few weeks, PS3 Attitude thought they’d take some time to pay tribute to the people who create the games that make our mundane lives just that little bit more entertaining: the developers. This is the fourth of ten articles in our mammoth list of one hundred development teams, and includes Guerrilla Games, Infinity Ward, Insomniac Games, and many more.
Ilari Kuittinen and Gregory Louden of Returnal developer Housemarque have revealed during an interview with Eurogamer at the studio’s 30th anniversary event last week that it has no plans to develop live-service or free-to-play games, “as long as people are buying premium games.”
Didn't stop Sony after acquiring Bluepoint, taking them from renowned remaster and remake quality and sticking them on a GoW live service title that never even went anywhere.
I can't speak to what gives Housemarque the ability to be different, but let's be thankful that they are able to do so in wake of current Sony.
Well whats different about Housemarque which Sony also owns that they can tell Sony what they will and wont do but the others couldn't?
That GoW live service game was the dumbest idea ever. I thought they were remaking Bloodbourne or a Demons souls expansion (covering that broken arch stone). Sony was really panicked after that abk/Microsoft news hit. I hope it was a side project for Bluepoint and that there's another one in the pipeline. That GoW game apparently never got off the ground.
Blaming Sony for pursuing Live Service when the top 5 games every month by spend and engagement are live service games is illogical. Gamers are telling Sony where to invest so there is a real disconnect between what is said online and what people actually play. Who should Sony listen to? Clearly the logical decision is to listen to people actually playing games and whether we like it or not Sony would be in vioulation of it duty to its investors if it didn't try to pursue LS. People taking out their fustrations on Live Service games by attacking Sony and using it as the industry whipping boy does not fix the industry. You are just telling the rest of the industry that they can keep doing what they are doing because they aren't called Sony. All I hear people say is that they hate live service but every single month the top games are live service. You are all either lying or you don't know what you are talking about. Sony should pursue both SP and live service games.
Shaz from Pixel Swish: “Both Insomniac Games and Ubisoft have given us games with dual protagonists. However, where Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s duo feel exactly the same, Assassin’s Creed Shadow’s Yasuke and Naoe feel unique.”
They are exactly the same because it's another version of Ratchet within the multiverse. It's not Ratchet himself or a female version of him but it's someone else who's taken his place / role within that Universe.
Agreed! A better comparison take would have been between AC Syndicate and AC Shadows.
with ratchet, they are the same, they play the exact same.
im not even sure why this needs to be said, we all know.
They weren't trying to make them play differently, literally 2 versions of the same person. Wo ur saying they failed at something they never set out to do 🤨
What in the f who even thought of that concept and connect these two games that released years apart and have nothing to do with each other.
You could of said fuel protagonist vs other times where AC did duel protagonist or a game like GTA v that allows for on the fly switching
Like how desperate are they for clicks
Rivet's character was more useless and forced than Abby from TLOU2.
MULTIVERSESSSSSSS!!! Remember that trend people lol? Also remeber how a beloved vilain Dr Neferious was reduced to a braindead wimp and a parody of himself?
“MULTIVERSESSSSSSS!!! Remember that trend people lol?”
It’s still going on. Especially @ Marvel.
Housemarque CEO Ilari Kuittinen claims that the studio couldn't have made investments on big budget games without the backing of PlayStation.
@raven: “ Wonder who the rival buyer was 🤔 “
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One guess start with a micro and end in a box 🤣
all so caught up in your little war that you forget Tencent would even be a possibility, how cute
what of my answer implies that? there is a reason i used the word possibility and didn't say: "it was tencent"
but i guess nuance is not a console war veteran's strong point.
@michael: “ all so caught up in your little war that you forget Tencent would even be a possibility, how cute”
Psychologically speaking the key word is RIVAL think about it and take out your I’m better than you glasses he is speaking as a Sony employee and we all know there’s little to no rivalry between Sony and and any other company besides Microsoft Xbox and at the time the latter was on a acquisition binge rage.
Kid the only war I got going on is against ignorance, next time think before you write otherwise you’ll end up an obscured character without any trust on your words.
Do not expect any response after this.
nah if it was a rival there would be mutual respect.
This is shameless slandering, double standard and no integrity all over an imaginary war for a company who doesn't know you or care about you so ofc im gonna call that bs out.
Talking like a sony employee is exactly what is so disturbing, you should only do that if you get actually paid for it, like an actual employee.
and don't call me kid when you can't even spell microsoft and instead turn it into microbox, psychologically speaking ofc
It was probably more than likely Tencent or Embracer. They're the ones gobbling up smaller studios during that time.
This is the way you buy studios.
You work with them for years. New collaborate and have a mutually beneficial arrangement. And then you buy them. You don't simply gobble them up like.locusts just because your dad gave you $100b.
It's gow Sony got blue point. It's how Sony got insomniac.. I can see Arrowhead being the next acquisition if this trend continuous.
this is the difference between sony and ms
sony has long standing relationships with these companies before they talk purchasing
ms just waves the dollar signs and lets them die.
yeah lets just forget the bungie purchase and how quickly they bought and closed the concord studio
bungie has been in close relationship with sony for a long time and they remained independent, so u are proving my point.
and yeh, firewalk studios was closed due to concord. but i never said that ms does that. i said they leave them to die after purchasing.
reading is a learnable skill
sure they had a super tight knit relationship with sony, gimme a break. Then ms must have been basically bff's with bethesda and activision. Bungie remained independent? they've been hopping to get bought by or financially supported by companies like a cheap hooker and they keep messing up. They've barely been independent in their lifespan.
You say the difference is they build up relationships, i gave you 2 examples that they didn't but then the excuse train comes out, prime example of gross fanboyism. Condone one for what you condemn the other for.
