Yoshida-san on Eight Days, first party titles and Home
- Posted July 8th, 2008 at 05:26 EDT by
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In a recent interview with ThreeSpeech, Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida spoke on the recent cancellation of Eight Days and The Getaway, as well as providing some insight into pushing first party development ahead of third party exclusives.
Speaking in regards to The Getaway and Eight Days, Yoshida reiterated earlier comments that their cancellation was purely a business-related decision, noting that the team “were doing the right things on the projects, and there were things in the games that were working really well.”
"The projects were coming to the end of the pre-production stage, and that is the time when we evaluate every product," explained Yoshida. "There are many new ideas that sound very interesting, but we don’t know whether they would really work, or how much it would take to accomplish our vision – that’s why we use the early pre-production stage to try new ideas and measure how much it would take to develop the product. Because after that, we would assign more resources to them, and they would really become major investments."
"So, it was not like Eight Days was in jeopardy: it was making progress," he said. "But it was more about business situations and priorities."
Continuing on in the interview, Threespeech asked Yoshida if Sony might be re-evaluating their policy on buying third party exclusives as Sony is still behind in the console race.
“In this generation, it costs much more to develop one product, it’s just natural for third-party publishers trying to recoup the investment from multiple platforms,” said Yoshida.
“I think that’s pure economic pressure, pushing most of the third parties to move from some exclusive titles to more multi-platform titles. Because we know that is the trend, we, as a company, can invest in our first-party studios; in terms of exclusive titles, our role becomes more important.”
"As far as I can see, with major publishers like Activision and EA, their major titles will be day-and-date with the Xbox 360 and their quality will be really good," he said.
"And some of the titles, I expect, will have something extra because of the PS3’s abilities and the space on the Blu-ray format."
Elsewhere, Yoshida also touched base on PlayStation Home, reiterating the company's commitment to releasing the online social networking platform sometime this fall.
"With the timing of the launch, we’ve always set target dates, such as the end of last year or spring of this year, but our problem is always implementing features, testing with beta users, getting feedback and making modifications, he stated.
"When we become confident that it is good enough to make it available to all users, that would be the right time."
"We have been making good progress, but recently, we have been thinking that this fall is the timing we will work towards,"
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jiajia |
OopsItsMe- 5:55am BST - July 8th, 2008
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Definitely need to buy some third party exclusives.
I don't doubt games like tales of [insert name here] or Star Ocean 4 will come on PS3... however I do want them to be simultaneously released on all platforms. Giving a timed exclusive to xbox360 is not a good position to be in.
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Alpha2
- 8:30am BST - July 8th, 2008
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“I think that’s pure economic pressure, pushing most of the third parties to move from some exclusive titles to more multi-platform titles. Because we know that is the trend, we, as a company, can invest in our first-party studios; in terms of exclusive titles, our role becomes more important.”
I've been saying this even before the PS3 came out! Why is it I understood this before YOU did? Unfortunatly now you STILL have to pay 3rd parties just to GET those games because M$ is paying to have them. That's why we're not seeing the RPGs we want to buy and First party titles are taking forever if they dont get CANCELLED first.
"As far as I can see, with major publishers like Activision and EA, their major titles will be day-and-date with the Xbox 360 and their quality will be really good,"
Yeah but you need them to be BETTER.
"And some of the titles, I expect, will have something extra because of the PS3’s abilities and the space on the Blu-ray format."
Not unless you PAY them for it. Thanks to M$ interferrance.
"With the timing of the launch, we’ve always set target dates, such as the end of last year or spring of this year, but our problem is always implementing features, testing with beta users, getting feedback and making modifications, he stated.
You can;t be saying Beta testers are at fault here? Not when I've been reporting the same bugs for 6 months that you STILL havent fixed. how about you get more than 4 people to help program Home and maybe you'll hit by Xmas.
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TekkenLord |
HitMan00- 8:36am BST - July 8th, 2008
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i still feel that they shouldn't have canned 8 days.
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VintageElise |
VintageElise- 10:19am BST - July 8th, 2008
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8 Days didnt really look that good anyway really.
"As far as I can see, with major publishers like Activision and EA, their major titles will be day-and-date with the Xbox 360 and their quality will be really good," he said.
He obiously hasnt played the same games as we have then. -
BRAV04 |
BRAV04- 10:33am BST - July 8th, 2008
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this sounds real dumb but i think i should run sonys company on the video game era. i mean come on they dont have people who know what there doing because they dont push anything threw. nothing zap zip. im saying if they had a pro be incharge it would be good, and someone who has class in video games.
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markwesker
- 10:55am BST - July 8th, 2008
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i totally agree that sony have to start buying 3rd party exclusives,they should of done that with re5 and that would of been an amazing game but im not now as its been made to fit on the 360 i already know it aint gonna be a great,shame cause now i gotta wait till re6....sorry but after seeing what exclusive games like mgs4 can do im not gonna except cheap ports from the 360 no more.problem is i got nowhere else to turn cause the pc market isnt making anything great either .
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jigglespsu
- 12:25pm BST - July 8th, 2008
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This Shuhei guy is a muppet ... using terms like "so far as I can see" and "I expect".
Doesn't he realise that he's not there just to have a look about and nod here or there. His job is to drive the companies strategies and visions further than his bald predecessor.
If the Shuhei fits? Think this is was a bad appointment of somebody who obviously isn't in it for the love of gaming.
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BlueDragoon0 |
Lionheart0- 8:35pm BST - July 8th, 2008
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Sony needs to support more third party exclusives, don't be idiotsm by letting that go pass for christ sake they don't know what their doing....
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