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Sony is "carefully monitoring" risk of delays for first party titles and titles of partner studios
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It all depends if they are still able to work on their games at a safe distance from each other.
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Actually if it was right in the middle of development it would be much worse becasue the developers at ND would be stuck without mocap and VA work which they obviously cant perform right now, at least now they are working while having everything in their hands, and just need to polish what is there, not to say that this is simple, but they are mostly bound by stuff they can control at least.
I'm expecting the PS5 to be delayed with TLOU and Ghosts to be the big late year releases instead. Business always maintain everything is going according to plan until the moment they're ready to announce otherwise.
Given the reports of inhumane crunch at Naughty Dog, people working from home would almost completely impact thier plans to meet their internal target. Now does that mean they ship LoU2 anyway or delay, I think it'll be the later. Which I hope means devs get some respite during this time, away from the toxic work environment jschrier reported on.
I hope Ghosts and TLOU2 get delayed to the PS5 launch so the devs don't have to suffer the disgrace that is crunch in this anxiety inducing time. If anything it would make excitement for the PS5 even higher.
Video Game Delays Cause More Crunch
These days, most video game fans are sympathetic to delays. They recognize that more time makes for better games, and that game development is too complicated for anyone to accurately predict release dates very far in advance. So after a string of high-profile delays this week, including the...
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I wonder if they'd mention, at this point, impacts on PS5 given that it's the next FY. I presume they probably would if they were knowable at this point since it is such a key product launch. But I think I'd note, for now, that 'Sony estimates that there will be no material impact on this business for the current fiscal year' doesn't quite encompass the PS5 launch timeframe.
Anything past April is liable to be delayed as mentioned by Jason and other people.
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that just refers to the fiscal year thats ending in... 4 days.
so yea, this doesnt tell us anything about the PS5.
they actually say in the link that the financial report might end up being delayed because of this.
Video Game Delays Cause More Crunch
These days, most video game fans are sympathetic to delays. They recognize that more time makes for better games, and that game development is too complicated for anyone to accurately predict release dates very far in advance. So after a string of high-profile delays this week, including the...
I thought someone might link that article. Call it wishful thinking!
They also wouldn't know until the public knows.
Since Sony is a publicly traded company, any significant business impacting shifts must be announced at the same time to internal people, as to the public.
Otherwise, you run the risk of people doing insider trading and then going to jail for it.
I would imagine delays are going to vary significantly from game to game. Some devs might have already had a plan and the resources to quickly get an effective WFH solution in place, some developers might not even have the capabilities of doing it and just suspending most of the games development until things get under control.
It will be interesting to see TLOU/GoT release dates, if some of the best development studios in the world with Sony's resources behind them have to delay their games that are suppose to come out in a few months....that's not a great sign and you should really prepare yourself for alot of fairly significant delays and annual games like FIFA/Madden/NBA2k/COD having problems at launch that they normally don't have.
It will be interesting to see TLOU/GoT release dates, if some of the best development studios in the world with Sony's resources behind them have to delay their games that are suppose to come out in a few months....that's not a great sign and you should really prepare yourself for alot of fairly significant delays and annual games like FIFA/Madden/NBA2k/COD having problems at launch that they normally don't have.
I don't think they would delay for physical copies when it's much safer during this crisis to digitally download a game you can carry with you to the ps5.
They should've been PS5 launch titles anyway, I say delay them if they need it, the ps4 is doing fine, there are plenty of other games and it gives other actual ps5 titles more time as well.
There is almost no way a PS5 launch title will be as good as the Last of Us 2
There is almost no way a PS5 launch title will be as good as the Last of Us 2
Honestly, if they get delayed to the fall, we are likely looking at PS5 being delayed into 2021.
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lets put it this way, you are a huge fan of the TLOU and ND and have already pre ordered the CE for a lot of money since it was announced. now suddenly because of the situation your copy of the CE has been delayed because they cannot create physical discs right now. So you, who paid them a long time ago a large sum of money, now need to wait and get spoiled by players who got the game digitally for cheaper.
That would not go well for them.
Only 2 solutions i can see is delaying the game by 2 weeks to produce enough discs, or send each person who preordered the game a digital code.
I wouldnt say ps4 is doing that well tbh, its sales has been slowing down significantly, more than have been expected.
I feel like all major companies are probably doing this. Even Nintendo had a COVID-19 disclaimer at the beginning of their mini-Direct yesterday.
I have no doubt that Ghost of Tsushima is not making its June release. I expect it probably in September at this point.
I have no doubt that Ghost of Tsushima is not making its June release. I expect it probably in September at this point.
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For some reason i didnt think of refunds.
i still think that considering how much people are jumping over these editions it would get those who ordered quite frustrated, like i dont think that doing some digital only launch is a great idea for such a highly anticipated game.
Everything just started for countries like America so don't expect anything until August.
No it probably means Predator, Ironman and bluepoint for example.
We're carefully monitoring the sales of games like Doom and FF7, it will help us decide if we need to delay our big guns.
I think there is a good chance TLOU will be delayed, just because of the game type. It's about a plague/zombie type infection... not sure that would go down well in the middle of a pandemic. Yes I appreciate its not the same, but people get touchy on such things.
And agree with the sentiment above about monitoring games that have come out or will do soon, remember some online stores are restricting delivery times on products, and games might also be delayed a few days, that all adds to hassle.
And agree with the sentiment above about monitoring games that have come out or will do soon, remember some online stores are restricting delivery times on products, and games might also be delayed a few days, that all adds to hassle.
Ff7 has already been confirmed by square not to be delayed.... But the physical copies might be.
It's a good thing we got a batch of stuff now, we'll have plenty of time
It's a good thing we got a batch of stuff now, we'll have plenty of time
I doubt it, CDPR's employees are working from home and I imagine that's the case for most studios.
I think sony is calculating all options, how many pre orders on digital, how many shippments to the stores etc etc.
But in the end of the day this is not a first priority thing, so i can see it getting delayed.
Resident evil is releasing in the spike of the virus, game from an asian country, its kinda funny they didnt feel the need to delay it.
But in the end of the day this is not a first priority thing, so i can see it getting delayed.
Resident evil is releasing in the spike of the virus, game from an asian country, its kinda funny they didnt feel the need to delay it.
Wow I didn't realize there were so many COVID-19 cases in the US. When did that happen?
Given that scenario I think it's pretty hard to keep operating the whole supply chain for the game. Even if the game is ready, you need to print copies, arrange the distribution, etc.
Given that scenario I think it's pretty hard to keep operating the whole supply chain for the game. Even if the game is ready, you need to print copies, arrange the distribution, etc.
The corona shutdowns will definitely be impacting qa. Qa typically involves a lot of bodies, and alot of shifts, many of them on temporary contracts. I doubt that they are setup to allow testing from home, nor that they world trust the temporary workers to do so.
They didn't tell me which one, and if they did I wouldn't be repeating it. But considering that a number of companies in the UK have been lax over the last week and only now (due to public pressure) closing, I wouldn't be surprised. Are you?
Note: I appreciate this is a sony studio thread, and would state that the info was not necessarily about a sony studio, but a games studio. But as people were talking generally about if studios were working from home or not .
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I would be more than happy for them to delay projects if it means better health and safety for their employees. They're just video games. We can all wait a little longer.
On Sony First Party? Yeah. Considering you could see some of their devs from all over talking about how it's like to work from home.
Still a serious accusation for any studio though.
I am very very suprised.
So the studio is from UK? Sony only has 2 studios there.
Updated as you replied, but no it wasnt specified, I got caught up in the whole "are game studios working from home bit". As far as I am aware all sony studios are working from home.
I'd say the vast majority of us are working from home - those of us in countries that shut down spent the time beforehand ensuring we had the infrastructure to continue working. Doesn't mean we're working at full capacity, but so far the industry hasn't been halted at all.
i don't think TLOU2 will get delayed. game is probably practically done and it's just polish polish polish at this point. Neither will Ghost. Ghost already got pushed back due to the TLOU2 delay and the fact that it's releasing just one month after TLOU2, which is way sooner than i thought, that the game is ready to ship practically.
Yeah, but definitely, any studio that forces their devs to come to work really needs to get called out.
I would be shocked if a studio in the UK didn't issue a stay-at-home order since the situation is pretty bad there.
But if any studio is forcing anyone to go to work that really should be called out.
Sony's comment about PS5's launch
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Regarding PS5's launch:
www.bloomberg.com
Sony Says Virus Disruptions May Hit Profit, Delay Reporting
Sony Corp. said fallout from the coronavirus may wipe out a previously projected increase in its profit and force it to delay an earnings report scheduled for April.
www.bloomberg.com