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.
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