It looks like Sony is allowing Annapurna Interactive to bring some of the PlayStation 3's more famous indie titles to the PC, with Journey already announced and flower available now. The legendary thatgamecompany exclusive -- which sees you control petals as you restore natural beauty to increasingly polluted scenes -- first launched in 2009 on the PlayStation Store, and instantly attracted critical acclaim.
To be fair, Annapurna Interactive is made up of many of the ex-Sony Santa Monica employees who spearheaded the studio's now defunct indie publishing scheme. For a time, thatgamecompany worked out of the God of War developer's offices, and so it all seems perfectly natural that it's been given the opportunity to publish the game on Steam and the Epic Games Store.
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Flower is great. I remember playing this for the first time and just swooshing through the grass in awe.
I'd love to know the story between Sony and Annapurna cos it just seemed like Sony let go of there games.
This and flow are still in my backlog. Hopefully get round to them soon.
I thought Journey was a masterpiece but Flower did nothing for me.
I absolutely love flower! I'll never delete this game off my hard drive.
Fun fact: I actually won a Sony blog contest where you had two write something brief about how the game makes you feel, or something along those lines. I received a $20 PSN card and most importantly, a gorgeous poster signed by the devs! I'll treasure that poster forever (well, for forty more years if the world is kind).
Flower has a better soundtrack than Journey.
There I said it.
RIP thatgamecompany
it's not up to sony. "that game company" owns the ip to flower and journey and can do as they wish with it... their exclusivity deal ended ages ago.
@Porco i don't think they do. If you see the description in epic games store it will state "© 2012-2019 Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. Journey is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. Developed by thatgamecompany." Sony still owns the ip they are just allowing annapurna to publish it on pc.
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