Sony Liverpool closed with immediate effect

Their games are plenty interesting. And Sony's decision to not allow the company to do anything beyond Wipeout titles does not reflect on how much talent this dev team had. I would never wish a company to go away with the amount of sheer talent these guys had, just because an over controlling dick of a corporation like Sony decided to utilize them about as well as Microsoft utilizes Rare.

 

Heh, now you've got me wishing the devs would be hired by Nintendo to make a new F-ZERO and Wipeout-ish game. I would imagine Sony still owns the rights to that title, so it would probably have to be a game in the same spirit.

 

Sad news indeed. Hopefully they re-allocate those people to other devs like Evolution Studios.

Hope this doesn't mean no more Wipeout games or some other franchises return. I'm so glad i bought Wipeout HD Fury on disc.

RIP Psygnosis / Studio Liverpool =/

 

This is definitely sad, although equally a cursory glance at Wikipedia's page tells you all you need to know about Psygnosis in the 11 years as a Sony brand:

In the 16 years as Psygnosis, they developed or published 154 titles in a wide variety of genres.
In the 11 years after they became SCE Studio Liverpool, they developed just 13 titles, of which 6 were WipEout games, and 7 were Formula 1 racing games.

Good luck to all the team in their future endeavours.

 

They should just get whatever Amusement Vision was renamed into to make a new F-Zero, because F-Zero GX is miles better than any Wipeout game. Assuming that studio still has most of its people intact (probably not).

 

This sir, is complete BS, said by an F-zero fan.

 

No more lemmings games i really liked them.

 

Sad news that Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool have been disbanded

 

The team could always reform but they wouldn't be called Psygnosis nor have access to the Puggsy IP.

 

Psygnosis was a huge part of the playstation 1's early library. So even after their 16 bit amiga/genesis/megadrive days they were putting out a variety of titles. Colony Wars, G Police and Wipeout come to mind immediately. These were great first party titles for sony that kept the old psygnosis spirit alive in the new polygon world of playstation.

I think once wipeout became such a huge hit (and not much response to the colony wars sequel) they just kept making the sure fire wipeout games. Its a shame as they had amazing creative ideas. I wonder how many programmers had remained with the studio the whole time and how many had moved onto other things long ago? Hopefully the stories will start coming out.