I would say making sure you tote the company line protecting who is paying you to keep the doors open, definitely qualifies as to why one should question the validity of what he says.
You're grasping at straws here. You're somehow implying that Sony would reprimand Neil Druckmann in any sort of meaningful way if he were to say something negative about the company, while the easier explanation would be that they are simply happy about their relationship, and the position they are in. This is further staved by the massive amount of leeway Sony grants its subsidiaries (I'm looking at you, Team Ico), on top of the generally awesome quality of games said subsidiaries deliver, and Sony allows them to deliver (Brand aside, TLOU was a risky project nonetheless). Your image of "the real world" does not concur with actual reality.
You don't bite the hand that feeds you. Of course they said what they said. It's the same reason any player gets traded they have nothing but good things about how the new city has the best fans in the world. Just about everyone under any type of contract has a code of conduct they must follow.
That would be true if Naughty Dog wasn't Sony biggest first party developer, as far as I know.
Think I found what this is referring toOld news? Japan only? Go away Eyashusa?
I want to say that I've heard of this before. Didn't they recently add an option to purchase a monthly PS+ subscription at a fairly high price, but kept the three-monthly subscription the same?
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Naughty Dog sells a lot of units that Sony will want to keep off the market for competition. That doesn't make the company line be tote any less. Especially in this ridiculous industry. Naughty Dog has just as much to lose as Sony does should a relationship go south. Especially with all the cash Naughty Dog is given by Sony to make sure they do not release cross platform. The only reason why Naughty Dog isn't cross platform is because Sony pays them through the ass, and they enjoy having that creative freedom in an industry where 99.9% of development companies have zero creative control in top down development/publishing pushes.
What a croc of shit. "You would never stand behind a comment", look, just because someone believes something crazy doesn't mean that crazy thing has any more validity. You are straight up wrong on this. You believing it doesn't make it true. It just means you are delusional.
For the third time, money doesn't have to be the only benefit from being a console exclusive developer. I'm not even sure how you can even attempt to dispute this, given the quality of games that studio has churned out over the course of their existence.
What other benefit is there in this industry? Everything is for the almighty dollar. That's all these people care about. Are you new to the industry? Or work in it and are new? Give it 2 years.
Either ignore what you see in your every day life, or put your hands up to your ears when you are told what is happening before your very eyes.
I just bought a sub for the first time so I wasn't even aware of the per month pricing. Looks like that article I posted was repeating a Nikkea press release that hasn't been sourced yet. So who knows. I'm so confused.Ps+ is 10 bucks a month if you just purchase 1 month. It's $4.16 a month if you purchase a whole year.
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I literally can not figure out what you're attempting to say. Are you saying that everything in this industry is about making the most amount of money? Because that's demonstrably false. Just look at the amount of love that was put into TLOU for the best example, not to mention games such as SOTC, ICO and Journey.