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Marathon Limited Edition DualSense Controller Revealed

Marathon Limited Edition DualSense Controller Revealed https://ift.tt/89pHbY5 Marathon Limited Edition DualSense Controller $85 | Releases March 5 Preorder at PlayStation Direct Bungie has announced the release date for Marathon , and fans can also preorder a new DualSense controller inspired by the extraction shooter. The $85 Marathon Limited Edition DualSense for PS5 is set to launch on March 5 , the same day as the game, and preorders will open on January 29 on the PlayStation Store. Marathon Limited Edition DualSense Controller $85 | Releases March 5 The Marathon DualSense controller has a very distinctive aesthetic that ties into the game's sci-fi themes and graphic design. Created in close collaboration with the team at Bungie, the studio says it aimed to make the peripheral look like something that could naturally exist alongside other objects in Marathon. The end result is a DualSense controller full of clean lines, purposeful markings, and vivid acc...
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Naughty Dog Founder Reveals Budgets Of Original Games And Why They Sold To Sony

Naughty Dog Founder Reveals Budgets Of Original Games And Why They Sold To Sony https://ift.tt/UuCxFWl

Andy Gavin, one of the co-founders of Naughty Dog, has explained why the company sold itself to Sony back in 2001. Posting on LinkedIn, Gavin said he's been asked "countless times" why Naughty Dog took the deal, and it was all about rising development costs.

Gavin said (via SI) when Naughty Dog first started making games in the 1980s, game development costs were "manageable," with costs for games made in the early '80s running about $50,000 per game. For 1992's Rings of Power, Naughty Dog spent about $100,000. For the first Crash Bandicoot game, however, costs rose to $1.6 million, with Jak and Daxter (2001) coming in at $15 million or more. Just a few years later, Jak 3's development cost came in at between $45 million and $50 million.

Naughty Dog was self-funding all of its projects at this time, and the stress about "financing these ballooning budgets independently" became too much to bear. Gavin said rising development costs is a "systemic issue" to this day in the video game industry.

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