David Jaffe talks about leaving Sony, future games |
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It's quite a shock to learn that David Jaffe left Sony - and by extension, the rights to the epic God of War series - to create a new company with Incognito's Scott Campbell. IGN managed to get hold of Jaffe to get some facts cleared up about him leaving Sony.He said that he and Scott Campbell already talked about the idea of creating their own company for more than a year, and made steps toward that decision for the last eight months.
IGN also asked Jaffe why he wanted to start a new game development company rather than develop the games within Sony, to which he replied that there are some areas in the gaming world that he would like to explore, but Sony hasn't ventured into yet.
Eat Sleep Play, the company Jaffe and Campbell started, will focus more on smaller, downloadable but nevertheless kick-ass games, much like Calling All Cars. They're going to do either 2D or 3D games, whichever will work for the games that they're going to produce.
While Jaffe left Sony, Eat Sleep Play is exclusive to Sony for both console and handheld games, something that Jaffe is not averse to, claiming that he had great friends from Sony and is looking forward to a long business partnership with the PS3 makers. But what about the rights to Calling All Cars and God of War? Jaffe replied:
I don't retain the rights cause I never had them. All the games I've done are owned by Sony. I kind of hoped they would give me the God of War rights as a going away gift but, no such luck. Hell, I was even asking for small stuff. Nothing big. I told them I'd be cool if they gave me the rights to something tiny; like the rights to make God of War steak knives. But did I get it? Hell no. I got nothing. Man, I coulda sold the s*** out of those things!
Jaffe also gave some facts about the upcoming Twisted Metal game for the PSP, Twisted Metal: Head On. There are no plans of connectivity between the PS2 and PSP versions of the game, but he will take IGN's suggestion of downloadable tracks for Twisted Metal PSP and run the idea to Sony.
While there's no official news yet about Jaffe's first original project, he said that the game will be officially announced within 8 to 15 months should all go well. The game will be in medium to hardcore action with multiplayer gameplay, and will be less "arcadey" than Calling All Cars.
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They should give him the rights to god of war as he created it and if sony get some other team to work on it the game will end up ***** well thats my opinion
you do know that Jaffe didn't work on God of war 2, in fact Cory was the one that produced the game and he did an excellent job, so it's safe to say that the series is in capable hands.
give him the rights to GOW....NEVER. he didn't work on GOW2 anyway. yeah he want the rights to sell it to Microsoft or nintendo for millions.... he can still dreaming.
He was not the one who created the game, and besides that Sony was the one who paid for the development of the game, so they have the right to retain the game and he knows it.
he didnt work gow2 and he wants rights to gow3 which he isn't working on at all and he wants rights? go microsoft they will give 50 million for your DLC!
I though he worked on both soz well if he didnt work on 2 then he cant expect to have the rightsto gow
Twisted Metal: Head On is already out for PSP. Please people slow down and think before typing!
it might be already in psp, but what about ps2/ps3 owners?
I think its a good game, look it made to the best selling list,
and look the extras! game running @ 60fps, extra levels from the never released twisted metal(dont remember game's name), also revamped graphics
thats enough for any twisted metal fan that havent played the psp one, or for someone that liked it very much
it only has like 4 levels.
Great job quitting such a b1tch ass organization! Too bad he helped them make so much money first. I can see why he quit sony since they aren't really into the game making business anymore, more like the lying about making game business.
Good luck to you, and all the other overtalented people that told sony to F*ck off!
He is just saying he wants to venture, but still wants to retain connection to Sony in some way. This in no ways means "that he is leaving Sony" for him to leave Sony would mean he is jumping ship to another console for good, which he is not. He has said many times he wants to have freedom to make what he wants. He wanted to make download able games, which calling all cars sucked btw I wouldn't recommend it at all. This is a horrible move on Jaffe's part because like I say to all my friends Wii is ruining gaming with its niche titles that are only causing every old person to go crazy over "mini games". This is especially true when we got game gods like Jaffe wanting to make retarded download able games which serve no purpose to push any market forward.
Read the full article somewhere else. He is wanting to make it for PS3 by merely porting it somewhat like they did Tekken: Dark Resurrection.
you guys *DO know that he was joking about the God of War rights thing, right? right?
i swear, some people take *EVERYTHING seriously on the internet.
the first three titles he is working on are all SONY exclusives! Read his blog....
David may have oversee the devlopement of god of war 1 but he did not creat it. Actually Cory did the same thing and it was better than the first one, proves that There is another person better than him.
However he is still loyal to sony and wants to make PS3 game for it. Proves why he is so well respected and got friends at sony studios.
Hellraiser what the hell are you smoking, he didn't quite for the 10th time. people needs to read and post better articles, he is just went to create his own company to which he can do what he likes with games and make money off of it.
Its a smart move really.
"They're going to do either 2D or 3D games, whichever will work for the games that they're going to produce."
That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. What the ***** else are they going to be? 4D? 1D? *****in dumb *****s.