PS5 Spin-Off God of War: Sons of Sparta Has Been a Big Hit for Sony

The thumbnail made me think a physical was announced.

They said they wanted more small scale after Astro Bot and I still haven't seen that! I thought ganes like Miles Morales and First Light did well and we're able to reuse some assets and development and work with a smaller budget and team. I dont know why they haven't been doing more smaller scale games!

Yeah but it didn't make ALL the money.

So the suits won't see it that way.

We want games that cost less to make faster that are shorter to play.

Suits want the same revenue from that as a new big budget release.

@Haruki_NLI We do?

@Haruki_NLI Ι really don't think they expect it to sell 10m.

Not my cup of tea but good too see exclusives doing well

@Haruki_NLI But the game doesn't need to make ALL the money though

Been saying it so long I’m bored of it now but yes smaller budget releases among the AAA’s would be great.

In the days of Shu etc Sony were good at mixing smaller budget games with the big boys but Herman seems to just want million unit sellers with massive budgets. Oh and live service lol

Give us Astro Kart, Sony!!

@datamonkey It’s not a question of who was in charge but changes in the industry in that time. People need to stop pretending that 2005 should dictate 2026. I’m not saying Hulst is perfect, far from it but Shuhei Yoshida and Hulst were operating in very different environments.

I’m all for Sony spreading their efforts into all sizes and shapes of games but the comparisons overlook wider changes to who is playing, what they are playing and how they are playing it.

Glad to see it. Darn fun game.

there is a market for it, but since there’s not enough it , people are willing to take this slop.

When i heard of 2D GoW i thought of something entirely different than this

The game feels like one of those bite-sized releases from a big name IP that we would see back during the PS3 era, and honestly there's nothing wrong with that.

@nomither6 Please enlighten us on how this is slop?

@BlackGecko14 li was surprised they didn’t do a similar style spin off with Spiderman 2 tbh. Plenty of things they could have done that could have basically reused most of the foundation of 2 for much less money

Regardless of the game itself this is ultimately a good thing as we would all benefit from Sony backing a handful of these projects a year to fill gaps in thebrelease schedule. They need to know that smaller titles can prove to be worthwhile financially and not just something that a small hardcore audience crave.

If i was sony i would just alternate like this:
Let a studio make a giant budget game like last of us or God of war..
Them give them 20 million to make a small project.
Them a big one again etc.

I'm definitely in the market for this kind of project, however this one didn't really hit the mark for me.
I really like metroidvanias but I was kind of disappointed. Graphically, I loved it but the gameplay was lacking.

@Afroducc was ok wasnt up to sonys usual standards though

@Deadlyblack its not slop at all its an ok gmae nothing special though

Good on it, like ive said before solid little metroidvania.

Let talented independent studios use your IP to make smaller games, in order to make some money, create exciting news of new exclusives, and cultivate the IP.

Sony finally got it.