Sony scraps Eight Days and The Getaway News
PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
Sony has officially stopped work on Eight Days and The Getaway for PS3.
Both were in development at the London Studio, most recognised for its work on the SingStar and EyeToy games.
"It has been agreed that production of both Eight Days and The Getaway will cease immediately due to the redistribution of resources and budget," read the Sony statement.
"This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future, resource should be reallocated to enhance those projects closer to completion."
Presumably the freed funds will now be poured into those EyeToy and SingStar games, which the statement outlines as being responsible for giving Sony a "reputation for innovative and entertaining games".
The decision comes shortly after Phil Harrison was replaced as Sony Worldwide Studios boss by Shuhei Yoshida.
Eight Days reared its head at E3 back in 2006, where crowds were treated to a sumptuous trailer demonstrating cinematic footage seamlessly merging into gameplay, and guns and cars and explosions and stuff.
Eight Days was only recently reported to have moved into full production, with The Getaway to receive a proper seeing to after the former was on shop shelves.
There has been no indication whether anyone will lose their job over this decision, or if development will restart at a later date.
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Aloominum_man
04/06/08 @ 13:17
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Eight Days reared its head at E3 back in 2006, where crowds were treated to a sumptuous trailer demonstrating cinematic footage seamlessly merging into gameplay, and guns and cars and explosions and stuff.
Bluff and bluster now seamlessly merging with reality in 2008 |
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alimokrane
04/06/08 @ 13:21
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"This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future, resource should be reallocated to enhance those projects closer to completion."
Translating: We are making huge losses on the PS3 hardware and we simply cant afford to make any more games. I am sorry but I burst out laughing reading that statement. Seriously ? incredible first party 2008 Line Up ? are you freaking kidding me with this ?
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"SHIT! Nintendo are making a mint off of cheap, minigame based games. Scrap these high budget 3D titles right now!"
"But who's going to buy our expensive console just to pl.." "NO! SHUT UP!" "But I thought people bought our machine to play high def 3D ga..." "GET OUT, YOU'RE DEMOTED TO WORKING ON LAPTOP BATTERIES!" |
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BeersOfWar
04/06/08 @ 13:27
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Yesterday:
""So we've put some initiatives in place to make sure we have more and more titles coming out on the PlayStation 3 from both first-party studios and third-party publishers" - Kaz Hirai Today: "Sony scraps Eight Days and The Getaway" Yay. Go Sony! |
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richardiox
04/06/08 @ 13:28
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Thinking back to that E3 2006 "the real next gen" presentation; no Afrika for Europe, still no KZ2 (plus the target render debacle), EIght Days and Getaway scrapped plus significant cuts in the spec of the machine itself. Ouch.
What exactly does this incredibly strong 2008 1st party line up consist of? |
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seasidebaz
04/06/08 @ 13:36
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so those funds are going to be ploughed into making about 20 psn games?
seems logical to me. |
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The Getaway would have to have been special, in a world where there is GTA its hard to push your way through. Just ask Driver.
I think one point I agreed with was the real world mock ups of London... which are stunning, if you know London. Same with the world locations of Driver. Thing is they are real cities, where the likes of GTA craft their city from a level design perspective. |
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"This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future..."
Loltastic. Seriously though, I doubt many people were looking forward to the dropped games. They've been floating around for ages and going nowhere fast. Sony have, IMO, really run out of luck. |
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What a waste of effort.
Darren: Eight Days actually played like that for a while. Obviously the cutscenes werent part of the game, but sliding over the bonnet of a car and running into the restaurant and people taking cover was in. Including shooting cars to bits, that was part of it. Driving was in as well. The strange thing was that Sony London developed both Getaway and Eight Days simultaneously with two different teams. For two very similar games that was a very strange thing to do. Especially considering the manpower they really should have assigned to each game.
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Prodigy_BE
04/06/08 @ 13:40
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I kinda liked the first The Getaway, when the producer (a guy named McNamara, who now owns the studio that makes LA Noire and is located in Australia) was still ace. But after he left, things just went downhill for Sony's London studio. On the hardcore gamer front, that is. Singstar ain't my thing, and neither is Eyetoy, but they are both innovative and great products.
So good call from the guy who stepped in to long phil's footsteps. |
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Negotiator
04/06/08 @ 13:55
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What a load of shit. Two games no one has heard of, and if by chance they have, they don't care anyway. Shit Days and the Shitaway are shit.
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BadBoyBonner
04/06/08 @ 14:14
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Let the Getaway team build the London Tracks for GT5, they should be able to do it in their sleep by now and obviously have the assets to do so - might also speed up GT5 a little i.e. out by 2010 instead of 2012.
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insane_cobra
04/06/08 @ 14:32
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"like most people i dont care about those 2 games as we saw nothing but renders, just dont cancel Heavy Rain!"
A dash of irony, perhaps? |
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Aloominum_man
04/06/08 @ 14:32
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@Swam
More Sony-critical comments and disappointment from a mixture of game lovers / console owners I see. Fixed. |
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BeersOfWar
04/06/08 @ 14:39
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"Shame about the wasted energy but better to cut your losses than to make it even worse."
This is how I feel about the PS3 overall :( |
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insane_cobra
04/06/08 @ 14:40
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@chris_ace
The point is we haven't seen any of Heavy Rain game (as opposed to the audition tech demo) either. Don't get me wrong, I also loved previous Quantic Dream games so Heavy Rain is one of two PS3 exclusives that really speak to me (the other being LittleBigPlanet), but I still find that post more than a little funny. |
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farticusmaximus
04/06/08 @ 14:52
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It's not necessarily a sign of imminent implosion at Sony, remember that MS cancelled a first-party title last year.
I do think that perhaps they are getting a little red-faced about the rediculously bloated development schedules of LBP and KZ2 and want to throw bodies and cash at them to make the delays go away. Having developed software for nearly 20 years I can see the outcome involving tears, dissapointment, hair pulling and more than one grazed knee... |
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BeersOfWar
04/06/08 @ 15:02
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"As a games machine, it underperforms unrealistic expectations"
Unrealistic expectations? What, like, high quality first party titles which actually get released after 3 years (if at all)? |
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