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 games cancelled for a virtual pet.

It's harder to single out Nintendo for overlooking its "core audience" when you find out things like this. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Shuhei Yoshida, Sony's head of worldwide studios, revealed that the company chose to fund development of a desktop toy virtual pet – EyePet – over a promising core audience action title, Eight Days.

When asked about the effect that canceling London Studio projects The Getaway 3 and Eight Days had on other titles, Yoshida responded, "There are so many things that we want to do, more than we can do with the resources. So when London Studio was looking at the early work on EyePet and the prototype of Eight Days, they knew they couldn't do all of them." So ... EyePet it was.

Sayyed via joystiq.com »