News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

[Cyan]

Sony have opened a new first party studio focused on Virtual Reality called SCE North West Studio

http://gematsu.com/2015/05/sony-opens-new-vr-focused-first-party-studio

 

[Prophecy2k]

Sony have opened a new first party studio focused on Virtual Reality called SCE North West Studio

http://gematsu.com/2015/05/sony-opens-new-vr-focused-first-party-studio

I'm pretty sure North West Studio has always been the name within Sony for Studio Liverpool/Evolution/Bigbig games over in liverpool.

I don't think this is a new studio at all.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Nope. Sony Liverpool was closed. There's no studio there to retarget onto VR. Hence Sony are creating a new one.
https://www.playstationjobs.co.uk/j...Locations/10/Departments/0/jobtype/0/keyword/

An exciting and rare opportunity to join an ambitious new studio to create original games exclusively for Project Morpheus, PlayStation's VR platform.

There are also discrete entries in the drop-down location selector for Liverpool and North West.

 

[Prophecy2k]

Nope. Sony Liverpool was closed. There's no studio there to retarget onto VR. Hence Sony are creating a new one.
https://www.playstationjobs.co.uk/j...Locations/10/Departments/0/jobtype/0/keyword/
There are also discrete entries in the drop-down location selector for Liverpool and North West.

I stand corrected then.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

Nope. Sony Liverpool was closed. There's no studio there to retarget onto VR. Hence Sony are creating a new one.

According to Eurogamer they have picked up a number of ex-Evolution Studios (Motorstorm, Driveclub) personnel. Driving could be natural fit for VR.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Wipeout is quite possibly the poster child title for VR. The immersion would be compelling and as nauseating as the real thing would likely be.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

Wipeout is quite possibly the poster child title for VR. The immersion would be compelling and as nauseating as the real thing would likely be.

They better ship sick bags with it!

 

[B Real]

Wipeout is quite possibly the poster child title for VR. The immersion would be compelling and as nauseating as the real thing would likely be.

I think they have the building blocks with the luge game. I would love a Wipeout VR [emoji14]

 

[Prophecy2k]

I always felt extreme G was the superior futuristic racing game.

Spoiler

snobbish I know

 

[Globalisateur]

Why doesn't Sony release the white PS4 in the US? That bugs me.

 

[orangpelupa]

White also should be much more scratch proof on the looks department. The Super glossy back is too scratch prone in many angles.

 

[Cyan]

Wipeout is quite possibly the poster child title for VR. The immersion would be compelling and as nauseating as the real thing would likely be.

Given how I love that futuristic racing genre -I am sucker for anything F-Zero- I'd be curious to know. But I guess that dizziness would ensue.

I read a rumour that Sony are working on the PS5 already and hiring people.

 

[Newguy]

I read a rumour that Sony are working on the PS5 already and hiring people.

They started work on the PS4 in early 2008 I believe, Mark Cerny said it in a presentation a couple of years ago so it's right on track.

 

[Megadrive1988]

I read a rumour that Sony are working on the PS5 already and hiring people.

They started work on the PS4 in early 2008 I believe, Mark Cerny said it in a presentation a couple of years ago so it's right on track.

Senior Game Programmer, Temporary (Job Number: 03944)

Primary Location: United States-California-San Francisco Bay Area - San Mateo

Description

We have an exciting opportunity at Sony Computer Entertainment of America (PlayStation).
We seek a senior game programmer to assist us in developing a game used for R&D purposes related to our next generation gaming system.

https://playstation.taleo.net/careersection/sceaexternal1/jobdetail.ftl?job=03944

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Could be a mobile platform though.

 

[Cyan]

Could be a mobile platform though.

Not possible, literally. Sony are drifting away from PS Vita and killing it. In fact now they are fully focused on the PS4 instead. Vita has been put by Sony under the legacy hardware category a few days ago, which basically means the Vita is no more.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Right. Meaning room for a new mobile platform to replace the one Sony has shelved. Not that that's a sure thing, but it's a possibility.

 

[goonergaz]

I love the vita and would love to see another handheld from Sony, but I'm not sure they'd risk it after the (relative) failures of PSP and Vita

 

[Deleted member 11852]

I love the vita and would love to see another handheld from Sony, but I'm not sure they'd risk it after the (relative) failures of PSP and Vita

Same, I think this would be very risky. If you told me Sony had managed to break even on Vita I would be surprised. But for india games and as an extension of PS4, it's awesome and I'd be really interested in a Vita-like portable with 1080p screen and the same controls as DualShock 4 - for a flawless remote experience of PS4. However, this sounds like a design nightmare.

 

[chris1515]

Fergal Gara (Sony UK) said last year the only error of Sony about the Vita is create it now with the era of mobile platform smartphone or tablet.

Ps Vita is the last mobile Playstation. ..