"GK: Before EyePet, the teams at Sony London were working on two projects that have since fallen by the wayside: Eight Days and The Getaway 3. Can you confirm that both of these have indeed been abandoned?
ND: I would not say they have been abandoned, just put to one side. Much work had been done. The studio just wanted to focus on its strengths, EyeToy and SingStar. Given the potential of EyePet, priorities have been changed, but the other projects aren't dead yet. Ultimately, the decisio..."
Recently announced PlaystationEye game, EyePet has captured the hearts of many gamers. But this game would have never been shown if it wasn't for the cancellation of Eight Days. London studios was working on Eight Days and The Getaway 3, and at the time, Eyepet was only a concept. But The Head Honcho Shuhei Yoshida told the studio to start working on EyePet. The work was to much for the studio so they had to can the production for the other two games. Well there you have it, two hardcore game...
"Q: You have shelved the development of Eight Days and The Getaway: what was the thinking behind that?
SY: People were doing the right things on the projects, and there were things in the games that were working really well, but the projects were coming to the end of the pre-production stage, and that is the time when we evaluate every product. Because after that, we would assign more resources to them, and they would really become major investments. This is a regular appraisal process for ..."
What more is there to say if you've read even half of the title, both Playstation 3 games Eight Days and Getaway have been cancelled, or at least postponed. This move is apparently to reallocate resources to other projects which are closer to completion.
While no one is pointing fingers (yet) the recent the appointment of Shuhei Yoshida as the head of Sony Worldwide Studios may certainly be a factor in this drastic move, as it from the SWS that this statement was issued.
Its been, well almost two years since we have heard any news on the game Eight Days. And after a long time of silence and some worries that the game was abandoned, we have a little light shed into this game that is Eight days. Sony London studio (same team behind The Getaway) said that they have full production on the game. Makes you wonder what they were doing the past 2 years?
Getaway PS3 was with great joy to the fans shown off once at E3 and then vanished without a trace. Many have since wondered what has happened to the long awaited sequel to the dark crime sim and now there is finally an answer, Getaway is currently being worked on by a small dev team, which will be later joined by additional members after other PS3 game 'Eight Days' is released
A roughly translated website reveals some info about Getaway 3. They tell that in the coming month of November we will see some revelations (most likely videos or screens) of the games. The state of development for Getaway 3's environment and scenarios are finished and now they are getting to work on the plot and game play. They also say that the game looks very close to the GDC '06 trailer. They are also expecting a Q2 2008 release.