Sony Kills Certain Games From Its UK Based Studios, Streamlines Others

Sony has a huge presence in UK with its various game studios, but according to report from GI, the hardware giant’s closed a number of projects coming from them, and has streamlined others in an effort to save and reroute money to studios dealing with bigger budget titles.

Studios affected are Eyepet and SingStar dev Studio London, Wipeout developer Studio Liverpool and Evolution Studios. The latter will see its latest game, Motorstorm Apocalypse, release this month in the U.S. and UK.

“It has been decided that production on a small number of projects within London Studio, Studio Liverpool, and Evolution Studios will be streamlined or closed due to a portfolio review and project prioritisation,” said Sony in a prepared statement.

“This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future, resource should be reallocated to enhance those projects closer to completion.”

It closed by saying: “The affected first party studios have been and will continue to be vital assets within the WWS family, and have a history of producing genre defining games such as MotorStorm, WipEout, SingStar and EyePet. This decision will have no impact on the role that our first party studios will play in the future of all PlayStation platforms.”

Sony wouldn’t comment further on the matter.