Dev of Cooking Game VR wants to bring it to PSVR but Sony has been ignoring them for over a year

[thevid]

The announcements for those two were already a while ago now, I assume nobody is working on those kind of deals anymore.

No, they are still doing work and they still have their Pub Fund. It's just weird how quiet they are about all of it.

 

[Johannes]

Yeah, at this point I'm ready to say that I prefer the Kaz-House-Boyes trio more than the current leaderships.

 

[chrominance]

I wonder why the Dev waited a year to contact Sony after nearly a year of Sony silence.
I would of called or spoke to a person some how in like march 2018, not wait until Jan 2019.

I imagine that as a small indie dev, there's always something else that needs attention. They mention in the Reddit post that they moved on to other platforms and projects when Sony ghosted them originally. I don't see any reason to doubt them on this.

In general, it feels like there's been a steep decline in indie outreach since Boyes and Suttner left, but I'm guessing it's less the individuals leaving and more a general shift in Sony philosophy at work here. There has to be corporate support for these kinds of initiatives, or else the individuals can't do very much. Nintendo and Microsoft have also had very good people leading their developer outreach, but haven't always earned the same success (though I think Nindies is doing pretty great nowadays).

 

[GhostTrick]

This is something to remember when someone tells you "Steam should do curation !"
Nothing is worse for a dev that made a game to see a door closed when it comes to release it.

 

[hibikase]

I wonder how much of Sony’s past indie push was Vita related? After abandoning first party development, there was a period of time where it was hauled as a portable indie machine, and now that it has come and gone, Sony probably no longer feels the need to promote indies anymore.

 

[Wheatly]

In reality it's probably one or two low level account coordinators not checking their email or workflow status appropriately. There is a constant stream of ridiculously low-budget content on PSN, and trying to prioritize all of that is probably no easy task... and then a good game (never heard of the game in OP) can easily be overlooked

No it’s more likely that Shawn Layden and Sony execs are directly ordering their all their department heads to ignore these small pathetic indie devs because they are a “shit company” - rather than just oversight


/s

 

[cheesekao]

I wonder how common of a case this is. Is it possible to raise a stink and get their attention through social media?

 

[Tempy]

They deserve a proper response to their application at least, even if it's a rejection.

 

[Anthony Hopkins]

I wonder how much of Sony’s past indie push was Vita related? After abandoning first party development, there was a period of time where it was hauled as a portable indie machine, and now that it has come and gone, Sony probably no longer feels the need to promote indies anymore.

Being indie friendly played very well into there initial PS4 brand image.
It really re-enforced there "for the players" stratagy and marketing.
I'm not saying Sony is not still indie friendly but priorities change.
I would not be surprised if PS5 gets another indie push during its launch year.

 

[Kaiser Swayze]

Come on, don't tell me Sony is too high-and-mighty for indies on PSVR. That level of content is the biggest chunk of their VR catalog. Even their "big" games are made by small teams.

 

[GarrettInk]

Sony: "All developers have to do is ask."
Developers: *asks*
Sony: :O

Accurate, funny and sad at the same time.

 

[cakefoo]

Seems like Reddit users are helping them out.

 

[get2sammyb]

There are so many games releasing on the PlayStation Store every single week that this clearly isn't a widespread issue. However, they shouldn't let any studio slip through, so I hope this gets picked up promptly after the signal boost.

 

[cakefoo]

I wonder how common of a case this is. Is it possible to raise a stink and get their attention through social media?

The issue has been taken public-enough imo. Maybe the developer doesn't want that kind of social media stink flood raised. Helpful Reddit users have offered to contact Sony directly and offered plausible theories of what's happening and why (a mishandling of inquiries by Sony Japan). If it's a fundamental flaw in the system, bigger than us all, then we'll know soon enough. But right now I think we're all jumping to conclusions a tad too quick.

 

[Mike Armbrust]

I signed up in 2013 and they were great. Things have changed but hopefully it's just been a simple mistake. I wouldn't expect Sony to not let a developer at least reach the next stage.

 

[Plasma]

*when it's convenient.

 

[DarkenedSoul]

It's almost like this is a shit post.

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Never heard of this game and I follow VR pretty well, but certainly some type of response be it negative, positive or an automated reply should be in order.

Fair response. Just salty because I was very impressed with Sony at the start of this generation and been increasingly more and more disappointed at the tail-end. Apologies.

 

[Camwi]

Sony needs to get roasted over this shit, especially when it comes to VR which needs as much good content as it can get.

 

[xillyriax]

Hopefully some publication will pick up the story. Needs more exposure.

 

[Akelisrain]

Long list of ppl submitting, probably under paid and over worked staff just not caught up on submissions.

Otherwise, that really blows.