The director looks back on the Bloomberg revelations

A few days ago, the inevitable Jason Schreier informed fans about the adventures of Deacon St John that he wasn’t coming back anytime soon. Indeed, Sony would have turned down the suite offered by Bend Studio. One of the two directors who left last December spoke about it.

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Jeff Ross, who was invited to chat live with David Jaffe, conducted a little on the article from with John Garvin at the helm of Days Gone Bloomberg. It is not for this time that he will confirm that Sony actually canceled Days Gone 2, respecting an NDA’s guilt, but the latter was well positioned

. It could have been a shared universe with cooperative play – a feature that could have been added to the original.

Sony as a “good family member”

The one who recently joined NetherRealm also confirms that part of the Ben Studio workforce was hired for Naughty Dog but that there was no question about making it an easy antenna from the makers of ‘Uncharted’.

He states that he understands that Sony may not be ready to bring back a license that started badly enough, although this is an important step for the developers. According to him, Days Gone has sold more copies than all of the studio’s games combined. Unfortunately, all of the positives about player feedback has been colored by that of criticism and this Metascore de 71

. And for Ross, it’s normal for Sony to be careful:

When the development of Days Gone began, we were 45 years old and wondered how we could create an open world with 45 people. The solution was to grow. We went from 45 to 120.

There was a very large starting budget for Days Gone. We far exceeded it and I think that number would be the minimum for the next. Sony and those AAA games …

These are not small budgets. The first siphon filter was $ 1 or 2 million. The second 2 million because we did it in a year. In terms of them, the return on investment was important, but for games that have to be sold 4 or 5 million copies to make the cost profitable …

There has to be some confidence in the consideration given that Sony does not have the resources from Microsoft. and they need to use it intelligently and focus intelligently on their diverse portfolio.

Days Gone is offered free of charge to PlayStation Plus subscribers for the month of April 2021 and is already included in the PlayStation Plus collection for PS5 players. This spring, Days Gone also has the option to repeat the icing on the PC. And who knows, maybe you will reap the precious sesame for this sequel, which is wholly suggested by the actual ending of the game.

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