Sony Studio Liverpool Closes

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by KK » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:22 am

Well there goes my hopes for a sequel to that then. BASTARDS.

NickSCFC

suzzopher wrote:This is strawberry floating terrible. The WipEout franchise is the main reason I game on PlayStation.

It's my most played PS3 game, god knows what'll happen to the franchise now

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **Mafro** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:29 am

Wipeout was the best and most consistent franchise Sony had, in my opinion. Wipeout HD was excellent.

Winckle wrote:strawberry float off Sony, one of your best studios closed, but you can keep wankers who take 5 years to make one game open.

Fairly certain any of their Japan studios could just sit twiddling their thumbs for five years and they still wouldn't be closed down.

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KKLEIN wrote:

Well there's goes my hopes for a sequel to that then. BASTARDS.

Don't worry, they'll farm the franchise out someone sooner or later.

Coming soon; Destruction Derby: Vengeance, a viscerally gritty shooter from Sony Computer Entertainment. You are John Destruction, a disgraced jockey on the hunt for revenge. His quest will take him from his hometown of Derbyville to the sinister megacorp guarded by the infamous Suicide Squaddies. PEGI 18 for graphic anal penetration and non-fucking-stop swearing. Also, lots of bloom.

Goodbye England's rose. :cry:

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **False** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:31 am

Tafdolphin wrote:
Coming soon; Destruction Derby: Vengeance, a viscerally gritty shooter from Sony Computer Entertainment. You are John Destruction, a disgraced jockey on the hunt for revenge. His quest will take him from his hometown of Derbyville to the sinister megacorp guarded by the infamous Suicide Squaddies. PEGI 18 for graphic anal penetration and non-fucking-stop swearing. Also, lots of bloom.

Id buy that. Not even joking.

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **Octoroc** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:31 am

KKLEIN wrote:
Octoroc wrote:strawberry float me. I was at a funeral with a lot of them on Monday.

Who paid for it, Sony.

No it was my mate's funeral. He was art director (or something) on Wipeout Pulse and Wipeout HD. He was made redundant last year, but a lot of Sony developers turned up- they'd all been given the morning off which, with hindsight, wasn't as nice a gesture as we all thought it was.

I worked for Psygnosis back in the 90s as it happens.

Lemmings
Wipeout
Destruction Derby & Destruction Derby 2
Colony Wars
G Police
Formula One

strawberry float

Ad7 wrote:G Police

oh gooseberry fool, did not make that connection.

This just keeps getting worse and worse.

Worst thing to happen to Liverpool since Hillsborough. :fp:

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **Photek** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:37 am

*sigh* apart from Team ICO, the only other Sony franchise I liked.

It's just the way things are going these days. :cry:

That rule out a Wipeout for PS4?

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by KK » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:37 am

Ad7 wrote:Lemmings
Wipeout
Destruction Derby & Destruction Derby 2
Colony Wars
G Police
Formula One

strawberry float

They really were the king of the PSone back in the day.

In my view Wipeout 2048 is also quite comfortably one of the best titles on Vita, too.

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **False** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:38 am

Photek wrote:That rule out a Wipeout for PS4?

Doubt it.

Polyphony Wipeout with hours of exciting menu screens!

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **Winckle** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:39 am

Mafro wrote:Wipeout was the best and most consistent franchise Sony had, in my opinion. Wipeout HD was excellent.
Winckle wrote:strawberry float off Sony, one of your best studios closed, but you can keep wankers who take 5 years to make one game open.

Fairly certain any of their Japan studios could just sit twiddling their thumbs for five years and they still wouldn't be closed down.

How about The Last Guardian, how is that coming along?

The sooner Sony go bankrupt or bow out of video games the better.

Ad7 wrote:
Mockmaster wrote:

I remember the days when having that logo on the box was enough for me to buy a game without reading the review, such was their quality output.

I was the same back in the day. They really did come up with a hell of a lot of top quality games.

Do we know what the official reasoning is for them being closed down or being "reorganised"? Is this Sony cutting costs? Did their games not make enough money for Sony's liking? To turn up to work one day and have the stuff you'd been working on for months and months on end cancelled and possibly be told that you'll be out of a job really must be hard to take.

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **Photek** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:41 am

Winckle wrote:The sooner Sony & Microsoft go bankrupt or bow out of video games the better.

Amirite?

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Specifically Sony. Japanese games industry is irrelevant these days.

Something Fishy

That's sad news.

I thought the had done that ages ago though? or did the merge two together?

are Evolution OK still?

Sad sign of the times, even Sony having to shut down studios and rationalise for lower earnings.

Something Fishy

Octoroc wrote:strawberry float me. I was at a funeral with a lot of them on Monday. There was no indication at all. strawberry float me.

In other news: I think Sony might be quietly killing Vita too.

are you a former colleague then Octo?

Mafro wrote:Wipeout was the best and most consistent franchise Sony had, in my opinion. Wipeout HD was excellent.
Winckle wrote:strawberry float off Sony, one of your best studios closed, but you can keep wankers who take 5 years to make one game open.

Fairly certain any of their Japan studios could just sit twiddling their thumbs for five years and they still wouldn't be closed down.

if sales stay as they are then even they will be facing the axe at some point but it does seem wrong they get to piss about whilst others are slashed after being really productive.

PostRe: Sony Studio Liverpool Closes by **jiggles** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:45 am

Winckle wrote:Specifically Sony. Japanese games industry is irrelevant these days.

Yeah, alright, Phil.

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