Sony\'s blocking Tomb Raider: AOD

If anybody is still interested, Gamepro posted an article about the delay of TR:AOD today:

http://www.gamepro.com/index.html?/sony/ps2/games/news/26725.shtml

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Sony must stamp final approval upon third-party titles before giving them the OK for release, a process that normally takes around three to four weeks, (..)

So much for the above debate if Sony has some sort of quality control or not. :rolleyes: Even if this process is entirely devoted to bug fixes, it doesn\'t mean that the game itself is left out. Just remembered this, but there was a game banned by Sony on PSX due to very "sick" content. I think the name of the game was Thrill Kill which launched in America (or was it Japan?), but never made it to Europe hence this reason.

Anyway, thank you very much alienmagic, you just made my day.

Hey, I know a guy at Sony Q&A Europe.

Damn bastard, he gets to play all the games before everyone else :evil:

Oh and, someone got owned! :hat:

Sony must stamp final approval upon third-party titles before giving them the OK for release, a process that normally takes around three to four weeks, and apparently Eidos was looking for some way to speed this up. In other words—if you can see where this is going—it\'s only four weeks to launch and they haven\'t submitted the game for approval yet, which suggests that it isn\'t quite ready for the public.

Way to leave off the rest of the statement.

I have pretty good reading comprehension and what I got from that was that the developer delayed in submitting the game to Sony for approval. Which generally means the game is not ready for release. No where in that article did anything tell me that the game was delayed because Sony didn\'t think it was good enough for release.

Sony has to approve all games before release. Does that mean they have quality control(gameplay wise)? No. Does it that they don\'t? No. As long as trash like Army Men and Britney Spears Titty Shake 2 are continuosly released I will refuse to believe that their quality control is anything more than bug and playability testing (And if you have played SOME of the PS2 games, even that aspect is shaky).

Who was owned? "Not I" said the fly.

I left out the rest because Tomb Raider wasa just an example being brought up in the "quality control" debate. In other words, the point I made is that Sony does have some sort of quality control as proved by the above arguement.

To the arguement of it being devoted to bugs/playability only: well, the process does take about 4 weeks and after this time, Sony can either aprove the game or not. For example if the content is rather sick, Sony has every right to refuse aproval. Also in other words, if a developer claims certain things (for example in an exclusivity contract), Sony has every right to refuse aproval due to gameplay issues and other things.

Facts? Go look for a article regarding the game "Thrill Kill" which was denied aproval due to content. This already proves that Sony does care on what goes on sale and what not.

Another thing to think about regarding Tomb Raider being delayed. Do you honestly believe, if Sony denied the game because of gameplay, that Core/Eidos will openly say this to the public? Yeah, we\'re sorry for having Tomb Raider delayed, but Sony denied aproval because we failed to keep our promises.... As you see, Tomb Raider will remain speculation and sadly, we\'ll never know for sure why this game was delayed. Thrill Kill however should be indication enough that Sony doesn\'t aprove any games content - but it\'s no indication to how strict they are, what they tolerate and what not. As I also stated, no one ever said that Sony is as strict as Nintendo (once?) was, but simply that they do care enough to deny a game if its putting their name/image/position at stake or could bring them an advantage in those areas.

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Der. Everyone already knew that third party games had to be submitted to Sony for final approval. This was common knowledge, for christ sake. The argument is if Sony\'s quality control is the reason for Tomb Raider being delayed and if Sony\'s quality control is actually worth a damn - which, for the most part it has been proven not to be.