A note from the development team on building something new.
It’s been a wild and crazy roller coaster ride this last year, building a new studio and hiring a ton of great talent amid the pandemonium of the COVID-19 lockdown. What an incredible journey so far and finally the day that marks the beginning of our next chapter has arrived! Today we are thrilled to announce a landmark deal for Deviation Games, working with Sony Interactive Entertainment to develop a brand-new original IP.
When my partner Jason Blundell and I first met decades ago, we often dreamt about having our own studio, making games our way with our own team of like-minded developers, and building a community where lasting friendships are created. That dream has become a reality today. We feel so fortunate to have this incredible opportunity – one for Jason and I to build something completely new from the ground up, to fearlessly innovate and forge an incredible community and legacy.
We call ourselves Deviators. And as Jason describes it, “Another way of saying Deviator is Renaissance mindset. Deviators are not only passionate about their own discipline, but they love others too. We believe that is what is unique and special about our studio, the culture, the team, and this project. From experience, young determined studios need rock solid support to thrive. That’s why it means so much that PlayStation is partnering with us on our first game. As you all know–having enjoyed the amazing PlayStation Studios portfolio–they know what it takes to make great games. To have a partner like that behind us makes the road ahead simply breathtaking.”
I know what you’re thinking as you read this. What kind of game are we making? How long have we already been working on it? Is it story based? Multiplayer? Co-op? Or all of the above and more? When is it coming out? While I can confirm development is already underway, it’s really early for us to be going into specific details. We’re drawing on what we’ve learned over our collective decades making games, but we’re also out to make something fresh and brimming with innovation like you’ve never experienced before. We’re not afraid to say that our ambitions are super high: we’re setting out to make a huge, content-rich game with a focus on a lot of action and a lot of energy, but let’s leave it at that for now and hopefully it won’t be long before we can share more.
As for today, I’m here to say: keep an eye on us–we’ve brought on amazing talent from around the world, we’re over 100 Deviators and growing fast, and we have an incredible partner behind us in SIE.
To our fans, particularly those who’ve followed some of our team members’ past work over the years: thank you for all your support, particularly now as we venture into creating something for ourselves. Follow our studio channels for all the latest and stay tuned. We might be quiet for a little while but next time we can talk specifically about what we’re working on; we’re confident it will raise a few eyebrows!
Good to see more and more PS Studios. I’m interested to see what the game is. Keep them coming.
Keep in mind sony didn’t buy them they only partnering with them. There not like that other company that just likes to chuck their money around.
Exactly. It’s like how Sony partnered with Quantic Dream before QD was bought out by a Chinese company. They managed to snag the IPs too, leading to Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human to appear off the PlayStation brand.
All these “partner announcements” should have been announced years ago so that they actually had some games to offer on the PS5 Lauchday. I mean this thing has been on the market for more or less (it is hardly available anywhere anyway) then eight months and there is only one PS5 game that pushes the technology a bit more than the rest of the few “PS5” games (which are just slightly improved PS4 games).
But better an announcement of something than nothing at all.
I know Sony didn’t buy them, that doesn’t matter, they are still part of PS Studios and they have Sony’s full backing. It means they have all they need to do their best work. That’s all that matters.
@barrow40
Do u even own a PS5?
Miles Morales was a launch game and it has ray tracing at 60fps, 1 second loading, c’mon. Demon’s Souls is gorgeous and respawns are instant.
Returnal is as next gen as there is. I’m assuming R&C is the title u claim is a little next gen. Yeah, little bit…
I’m not sure what ppl expect, but Sony is THE ONLY ONE PUSHING NEXTGEN RIGHT NOW. Returnal and R&C back to back.
Demon’s Souls Remake – 92
Returnal – 86
R&C – 89
All three are next gen exclusives with ridiculous reviews and impressive visuals. They all utilize the DualSense well. All have absurd load times.
And oh btw, Destruction All-Stars and Godfall are next gen exclusives. Spiderman Remastered as well. Call it cross gen, idc, Forbidden West is silly impressive. Sony is delivering. Get out of here. Go on Gamepass.
@iamtylerdurden1
Spiderman Remastered, Miles Morales (another Spiderman game for the sake of variety), Demon’s Souls, well, if you like to play/ buy warmed-up titles over and over again, then these titles are made exactly for you (ok, they load faster, look a bit better, but basically these are the same games we already have on PS4).
And we don’t even need to talk about Destruction All-Stars and Godfall, because the only thing these two insubstantial games can do is look good. In the end there are 2 titles left, Returnal and the just released R&C (released eight months after the PS5 launch).
„I’m not sure what ppl expect, …“
Well, maybe a few new games to launch a new console (not warmed up remaster, remake stuff).
@barrow40 And its even better to have, like you say, some next gen only games then NO GAMES after 7 months and none anytime soon.
@barrow you are absolutely right. R&C is the only next gen game. The other games are superficially held back from last gen.
Though I think we are being overly critical due to the SSD. Most gens the games are just better looking and doing more faster. It will take a bit for the SSD to get used creatively.
It brings me comfort knowing that somewhere Naughty Dog is brainstorming haha.
This thread is entertaining