Sony has significantly reduced the list of developers committed to creating games for the PlayStation 4, removing a number of European studios named last week.
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The original list of 53 developers was released shortly after console's official announcement and included big names such as Namco Bandai, Bethesda, Rockstar, Disney and numerous others.
However, new studios have also been added to the roster, most notably Deep Silver, Ninja Theory, IO Interactive, Codemasters, 2K Games, Sumo Digital, Bohemia Interactive, and CD Projekt, which confirmed The Witcher 3 is coming to the PS4.
Many of the studios removed from the original list, such as Mojang, 17-Bit and Vlambeer, haven't outright ruled out supporting Sony's next console, and have simply stated they either have nothing currently in development for the console, or haven't decided on anything yet.
There is a possibility that some supporting studios may have wanted their names removed to prevent their projects being announced informally or prematurely.
Update: This report has been updated to reflect a correction in the revised list of European developers supporting the PS4. Confirmed by a Sony representative to be the final and correct list, this list adds Ghost Games ("an EA studio") and reinstates Criterion Games, bringing the total up from the originally reported 28 developers to 30.
Revised list of studios supporting PS4
- 2K Games
- Avalanche Studios
- Blitz Games Studios
- Bohemia Interactive
- CD Projekt RED
- CLIMAX STUDIOS
- Codemasters
- Creative Assembly
- Criterion Games
- Deep Silver
- GHOST GAMES - AN EA STUDIO
- Hello Games
- IO Interactive
- Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.
- keen games
- Lucid Games Ltd
- MercurySteam
- Ninja Theory Ltd
- Nixxes Software BV
- Paradox Interactive
- Rebellion
- Saber Interactive
- Splash Damage
- Stainless Games Ltd
- Starbreeze Studios
- Sumo Digital
- TEAM17 DIGITAL LTD
- TT Games
- YAGER
- Zen Studios
- ACQUIRE Corp.
- ARC SYSTEM WORKS CO.,LTD.
- ARTDINK CORPORATION
- ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc.
- Bethesda Softworks, LLC
- CAPCOM
- Chara-Ani Corporation
- CRAFTS & MEISTER CO.,LTD.
- CyberConnect2 Co.,Ltd.
- D3 PUBLISHER Inc.
- Dimps Corporation
- Electronic Arts Inc.
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- GANBARION Co., Ltd.
- Genki Co., Ltd.
- Granzella Inc.
- GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.
- GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
- GUST CO.,LTD.
- IDEA FACTORY Co., Ltd.
- IMAGEEPOCH INC.
- Index Corp.（ATLUS)
- KADOKAWA GAMES,LTD.
- KADOKAWA SHOTEN CO., LTD.
- Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- LEVEL-5 Inc.
- MAGES. Inc.
- MarvelousAQL Inc.
- NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
- NAMCO BANDAI Studios Inc.
- NIHON FALCOM CORPORATION
- Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.
- O-TWO inc. (peakvox)
- PlatinumGames Inc.
- SEGA Corporation
- SPIKE CHUNSOFT Co.,Ltd.
- SQUARE ENIX Co., Ltd.
- SystemSoft Alpha Corp.
- TECMO KOEI GAMES Co.,Ltd.
- TOSE CO., LTD.
- tri-Ace Inc.
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- WILL CO., LTD
- XING Inc.
- YUKE'S Co.,Ltd.
- BLUESIDE Inc.
- Ratloop Asia Pte Ltd
- Red Hare Studios
- XPEC Entertainment Inc.
- 17-Bit
- 5th Cell Media LLC
- Activision Publishing, Inc.
- Armature Studios
- Behaviour Interactive
- Bethesda Softworks, LLC
- Blind Squirrel Games
- Certain Affinity, Inc.
- Darkside Game Studios, Inc.
- Devolver Digital
- ©Disney
- Double Fine Productions, Inc.
- Double Helix Games
- DrinkBox Studios Inc.
- Edge of Reality, Inc.
- Electronic Arts Inc.
- FarSight Studios
- Gaijin Games, Inc.
- Gearbox Software
- HB Studios Multimedia
- Heavy Iron Studios, Inc.
- High Voltage Software, Inc.
- inXile Entertainment Inc.
- Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC
- JETPACK Interactive Entertainment Ltd.
- Klei Entertainment Inc.
- Lab Zero, Inc
- LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company
- Metanet Software Inc
- Minority Media Iinc.
- Nicalis, Inc
- Panic Button, LLC
- Psyonix Studios, Inc.
- Slant Six Games
- Sony Online Entertainment LLC
- Spark Unlimited
- Spry Fox LLC
- SuperVillain Studios
- Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- Telltale, Inc.
- Tribute Games Inc.
- Turtle Rock Studios, Inc.
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- vBlank Entertainment Inc.
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
- WayForward Technologies, Inc.
- Zombie Studios, LLC
- IO Interactive
- Starbreeze Studios
- 2K Games
- TEAM17 DIGITAL LTD
- YAGER
- Zen Studios
- keen games
- Splash Damage
- Stainless Games Ltd
- Sumo Digital
- Codemasters
- TT Games
- Avalanche Studios
- Blitz Games Studios
- Bohemia Interactive
- CD Projekt RED
- CLIMAX STUDIOS
- Hello Games
- Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd.
- Deep Silver
- Lucid Games Ltd
- MercurySteam
- Ninja Theory Ltd
- Nixxes Software BV
- Paradox Interactive
- Rebellion
- Saber Interactive
- Creative Assembly
Comments
35 comments so far...
steve_2003 on 25 Feb '13 said:
Oh dear,
Lets just take what Sony and Microsoft announce with a pinch of salt and see what actually happens at the end of the year shall we....
Bambis Dad on 25 Feb '13 said:
Not the end of the world. Not great news.
Squall5005 on 25 Feb '13 said:
Noooooo. Not Rovio!!!
If I can't play Angry Birds on my PS4 then I don't want one.
TheLastDodo on 25 Feb '13 said:
The one's that have been removed don't exactly concern me.
Mojang - Minecraft - Only real loss IMO, only for no Minecraft on any PS platform. Yet.
Rovio - Angry Birds - They will sorely be missed.............
Criterion - No loss as it's guaranteed they will be developing for PS4 at some point.
Frozenbyte - Unless I'm mistaken they did Trine 2? *shrugs*
Now if you'd said Platinum and Grasshopper I would've cried my eyes out.
gayrath on 25 Feb '13 said:
I don't really understand. Are these studios developing exclusive titles for the PS4? The revised list has dropped loads of big names like EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda who will all be developing games which will no doubt be available on the PS4...
StonecoldMC on 25 Feb '13 said:
Pretty straight forward really.
They don't want anyone knowing what there working on so asked Sony to remove there names from the list until June, then stick them back on the list after E3
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TheLastDodo on 25 Feb '13 said:
Pretty much, especially the indies.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/1870 ... St7WGeuR8E
El Mag on 25 Feb '13 said:
Who made Naughty Bear? Hopefully they don't get a dev kit for any next gen console. Not even for Christmas.
KK-Headcharge78 on 25 Feb '13 said:
No Minecraft or Angry Birds, well there is a bonus
goggy on 25 Feb '13 said:
What a surprise.
Ali_ on 25 Feb '13 said:
This looks like a PSN list?
billysastard on 25 Feb '13 said:
well neither platinum or grasshopper are on the revised list
chamony on 25 Feb '13 said:
Funny how they took Activision and Capcom off when they were at the launch event!
Funnier still they have took Sony off the list!
a_adji on 25 Feb '13 said:
That is a drastic cut. OOhhhhhhhhhhhhh Dear.
Barry316 on 25 Feb '13 said:
Yep, according to the revised list then even Sony aren't working on it. So either Stonecold is spot on or Sony's wife just left it and took half its s**t.
hephaestos on 25 Feb '13 said:
yeah well the original list here is of 128 studios not 53... so much for this article...
then again, I understand that some studios could be unhappy of Sony dropping their names without reason...
gmcb007 on 25 Feb '13 said:
It is a shame to see Bethesda removed from the list. I was hoping they were working on a next gen Fallout. I wonder if they're making FO4 for current-gen. I hope not, that Gamebyro is utter s**te.
Bambis Dad on 25 Feb '13 said:
If I was SONY I'd send Bethseda packing unless they promised a working version of any playstation game.
aidygaga on 25 Feb '13 said:
wait am confused, is Capcom developing for PS4 or not?
gmcb007 on 25 Feb '13 said:
Oh yes! I completely forgot about that! Game testing for Bethesda must be the easiest in that profession.
nb_nmare2 on 25 Feb '13 said:
CVG have got it wrong. There was no "original list of 53 developers" - there was a much larger list of developers and publishers, which included a section naming 53 European companies.
You can ignore the fact that the likes of Bethesda, EA, Activision, LucasArts, Capcom, Namco, Square Enix, etc aren't on the "revised list", since they're not European. Ubisoft are missing because for some reason Sony put them under the "North America" section even though they're French (Sony also included Bethesda and EA under the "Japan" section, and have now also included 2K Games in the "European section"... all, of course, being American companies
).
There's actually no overlap at all between the original and "revised list" of European companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the 28 companies were in fact additions to the original list, bringing the total number of European companies up to 81 - particularly as the original list included such companies as Croteam and Techland.
81 might sound a lot, but bear in mind a lot of these are tiny developers working on cheap stuff for the Playstation Network (or whatever the PS4 equivalent ends up being called) rather than major commercial releases.
pixelpojken on 25 Feb '13 said:
As long as I see FromSoftware and Capcom I'm not raging.
diablomaster000 on 25 Feb '13 said:
The spokesperson is obviously wrong because capcom and square-enix and others arent on the revised list. European spokespersons get everything wrong.
DoucheVader on 25 Feb '13 said:
Likely these will be added back as we get closer to E3. Developers just don't want to show their hand yet, perhaps they need to wait for MS to officially announce support for 3rd party titles.
andy3050 on 25 Feb '13 said:
they announced watchdogs as a release game then took ubisoft off the list?
confusing list is confusing
flyfletch on 25 Feb '13 said:
I notice Sega isnt on the new list? Wonder what thats about??....
Agent75 on 25 Feb '13 said:
Can't see it. Codemasters could say they're doing 33 games for the PS4 and that's it. All we'd know is that they're doing 33 games. Why keep that a secret? Next gen is going to be very costly, not forgetting that games will set you back up to £60 defo, plus there's the cost of DLC. New devs will come along, devs will close. I think most devs are holding out to see how gaming goes between the main 3 consoles.
Heavenly_King on 25 Feb '13 said:
how about comparing the actual EU list with the original EUROPEAN LIST! And not the whole list.
nb_nmare2 on 25 Feb '13 said:
See my post above - there's absolutely no overlap between the original and "revised" European list, suggesting it's not a revision at all, but rather an addendum.
flyfletch on 25 Feb '13 said:
Is that a typo, or do you really mean they are doing 33 games??
Bambis Dad on 25 Feb '13 said:
Fly the clue is in "They could say", they aren't developing 33 games, at least not that we know of.
flyfletch on 25 Feb '13 said:
Your right, i missed that!! Sorry! The 33 games distracted me lol
Barca Azul on 25 Feb '13 said:
I don't think anyone will lose sleep over this.
Dinoboy626 on 25 Feb '13 said:
What happened to guerrilla games i was so excited for killzone shadowfall
nb_nmare2 on 26 Feb '13 said:
This is a list of 3rd party publishers and developers, and Guerilla Games are owned by Sony making them a 1st party developer.