Sacred Symbols+, Episode III: Who's Next?

I’d think the best fits would be. HouseMarque. Remedy. From Software. Bluepoint. Maybe Ready At Dawn

Jack Mason

Not sure if you check these after they go live, Colin. Just wanted to let you know SS+ is fantastic, and I'm having a ball catching up. Love hearing more of you!

Vaughn Allison

GG working on Socom reboot would be waste of talent imo

Mr Twister

They'd be an interesting acquisition.

Colin Moriarty

I really think Bluepoint Games would be a great addition. Serious talent there

Tony Colton

No? What would they add that Sony needs? They're a port-house.

Colin Moriarty

Am I missing something? Why did nobody mention blue point?

Nathaniel

FPS would be nice. We shall see!

Colin Moriarty

As we announced on Episode 61 of the normal show, we're doing a spoilercast. =)

Colin Moriarty

Hey: You never know. =)

Colin Moriarty

I personally think Hangar 13 would be an interesting choice to take on a single-player first person shooter. They clearly have story chops with Mafia 3, but also have FPS history with their support of Borderlands.

Bloviated Rendering

Good day kind Sir, have not yet listened to the episode but have it downloaded and ready to go. Not sure if you've mentioned Remedy at all as a possible acquisition. I've just started playing Control. Will you guys be doing a Spoilercast for this game? It seems like something worth talking about! Thanks for the all the great content. Greetings from South Africa

Dank Yharnam Nugz

I can see all three when you click the SS+ tag under "Featured Tags" on the left side of the browser. Definitely harder to find on the phone app though.

Bloviated Rendering

Are the old Ss+ episodes pulled regularly or just not tagged? Only seeing this one. Glad to be here. Either way.

Mando Calrissian

Guerilla making Socom would be awesome. I hope that's what Colin was referencing.

Your Boi Nicky V

That'd be great. They seem to be with Nintendo kinda-sorta now, though.

Colin Moriarty

How about Platinum Games??? I'd like to see Vanquish II...!

Miguel Angel Rueda

What do you mean? Were they wrong in the notes I read?

Colin Moriarty

Thank you! Team Ninja would definitely be a good choice.

Colin Moriarty

Just wanna chime in and say that you exaggerate the Tacoma release dates quite a bit. It launched on Xbox in August 2017 and on PS4 in May 2018.

Koray Savas

Love these studio centric episodes, my bid would be Team Ninja. Nioh is amazing and dead or alive would fill that competitive gaming space.

RandyVa

This is true; I forgot about that.

Colin Moriarty

I feel like that opportunity has come and gone. Remember: They were producing a sequel in the early 2000s that was (obviously) cancelled. At this point, a remake is more likely.

Colin Moriarty

Thank you! <3

Colin Moriarty

Well, that's clearly their argument recently, but I don't agree with it. So it's not so much missing the point as having fun constructing a first party family that gives them the best outcomes. They can have better outcomes with smaller games, too. And they are obviously pursuing that course. Medievil Remake is being made by a small team, and Concrete Genie is being made by a tiny team that Sony actually owns. They obviously want to invest in games that sell huge. But there are too many holes in the schedule. Unless they have big announcements coming up from teams we don't know about (which is potentially what's happening in San Diego), they are going to have a large first party gap between the middle of next year and a couple of years into the PS5 lifecycle.

Colin Moriarty

KNACK, you say? =)

Colin Moriarty

Me shedding tears of despair whenever anyone mentions Legend of Dragoon 2. My heart aches, Colin! I need it!!

Nate McKinney

Just wanna say you guys are killing it. Keep Tuesday's Great!

Nader Aboulhosn

This was a really fun episode as a thought exercise. I'm willing to eat shit on this, but I feel like y'all missed the point though. I don't think Sony is interested in acquiring small teams to round out their portfolio - they already get those games on their platform. I could be wrong, but especially with their comment on focusing on 'big games,' I feel like the point is they want more of the calibre of games they're already making. I think the goal here would be releasing God of War calibre games (by that I mean big 9.0+ titles, not the game genre) twice a year consistently. To do that they need more big studios. I don't see how a Fulbright or Supergiant (as much as I adore Supergiant) scales up to make a game Sony no doubt thinks ads an extra inch to their massive dick they like to swing around. That new studio Chris mentioned would be pretty perfect for this. I can see Remedy scaling up to do that too. As I said, I'll hold my hands up if they turn around and buy a smaller studio that makes the kind of games you mentioned, but I just don't think they're interested in 'owning' those studios or IP - especially when the games are already on the platform.

hugplx

Fulbright is a terrific choice Colin, they fit very well into Sony’s knack for narrative driven games and they wouldn’t cost Sony too much in comparison to Insomniac. I have a soft spot for Fulbright, from what I understand they are currently working on an unannounced third game and if Sony picked them up I imagine they could expedite that process and help market the game in a way Fullbright has never known. Gone Home is one of my favorite games and Tacoma was massively underrated, I have a lot of faith in that little studio from Oregon.

So many Swedish teams. =)

Colin Moriarty

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

If Sony wants to make a play for quality, arcadeish, once-every-18-months $20 exclusives on PSN, they should rescue Housemarque before the company inevitably kills itself with Stormborn or whatever the fuck it's called.

Colin Moriarty

That's because you're a huge nerd.

Colin Moriarty

Most entities are owned by larger entities. Most of the studios discussed have various private shareholders.

Colin Moriarty

If people use their noggins and connect the dots, they can figure it out.

Colin Moriarty

One dev that rarely gets mentioned, Frictional Games. With their specialty in first person horror, it would be a nice addition.

Chris B

Hi Colin and Chris! One correction - IO Interactive is a Danish studio, not Canadian or French...

Anastas Lyakh

Wasn't it NetEase?

Jose Salinas

Ditto! Man of Medan looks really promising! I hope Sony's paying attention!

Dav9834

I remember it coming out and I remember playing it. It just wasn't good. Nex Machina was really really solid tho. I think they released very close to one another witch led to some people getting them mixed up.

Jose Salinas

Interesting to hear you mention Housemarque, Colin (sarcasm.) Honestly though I had been meaning to write in for the past few weeks but kept missing the cutoff. I was basically just curious as to weather you had any insight to what was happening with Housemarque considering that you have been an evangelist for their games since way back and and I always remember you saying you had a great working relationship with them. Although it sounds like you maybe haven't heard from them in a while. I'm also very worried for them since stormdivers is a battle royal not a hero shooter, if memory serves me correctly. Idk witch will be worse for them or if it even would make a difference.

Jose Salinas

Kamen rider is a very popular Japanese television show that rivals super sentai rangers (power rangers,). I love Kamen Rider. A bandmate of mine introduced it to me and we’d watch it after practice all the time.

Kenneth Oms

Also bungie has a big investor in tencent as well

Adamthm

Fromsoft is actually owned by a bigger company subsidiary of kabushiki gaisha

Adamthm

Supermassive is a great call that I didn't even think about them being acquired. I adore everything they've made since Until Dawn. Super excited for Man of Medan next week!

Mitch Krassin

Why you've got to be such cocktease, Colin, spill the beans on Gorilla.

BM

Jesus Christ, I didn't even realize Matterfall had be released. Did that just completely fly under anyone else's radar?

Jayce Tamulevich