Sony's Choice: EyePet beat out Eight Days

It's obvious Sony thought they have enough other CORE titles already in development. EyePet could be a HUGE success for Sony with the casuals and Core gamers. (if said game has enough innovation in it) The example of drawing that toy car and seeing the game incorporate that car with physics, collision dedection shows promise.

This game is not due out till fall of 2009, they have plenty of time to really make this game truly special.



Last time I checked, they had put 8 Days on hold and NOT cancelled it completely.

Remember when that one promising core audience action title was canceled in favor of a different core audience action title? That was crazy off the HOOK! The internets never heard the end of that one!

"Core gamer" is becoming my least favorite buzzword in the industry.

Traditional games are still important (they're all I play), and I believe they will continue to thrive. I just wish that the gamers of the internet didn't such a sense of entitlement, where they cry foul when, godforbd, anyone decides not to pander to them.

Boo-freakin'-hoo, guys! Eyepet probably won't be my thing, but honestly, the real-world interaction they showed in the trailer, if it works, will be vastly more innovative than another running-driving-shooting game.

Look, much as y'all need to fill column inches with stuff for people hardcore enough to read a gaming blog, there's really, really, really no dearth of action shooters. There is a dearth of games that do something unusual, and especially a dearth of kid/family games with innovative technology. Eyepet looks to be exactly that, making it a vastly more interesting proposition for Sony, and for people interested in games and technology, than yet another game that plays kinda like Driv3r.

And the weird moralism about "selling out your fans" is just silly. If they were making games that urged kids to, say, snort coke and kill their parents, that might be a moral problem (depending on how you feel about coke and parents, I suppose). But there's really nothing immoral about making games for kids, even if it makes the people who buy new games weekly into sad pandas. Y'all have lots and lots of big, violent, sweaty games you can play, and plenty more coming, so stop crying like your diaper's wet whenever someone makes a game that you maybe won't like.

Is it just me or does this screen remind anyone of Vigilante 8?

The destruction of gaming started by Nintendo has now been seeded into other companies.

The end has begun. REPENT!

I see nothing wrong with well done casual titles for all ages, be it Nintendo or anyone else. It's shovelware that bothers me.

This game isnt for everyone, but have any of you actually SEEN anything from eyepet? I think they are doing some really unique things with the "desktop toy". I think the coolest inovation is the ability to draw an image (penis) onto a piece of paper and hold it up to the camera, your little furry pet will grab a piece of paper and draw your image from your paper on to his own. Then he casts his magic spell on it, and your 2d image becomes a 3d rendered item, that the pet can interact with and play with.

I think if the game has innovative things like this, that it would make a really cool downloadable PSN game, as long as they charged for it on the cheap.

I fail to understand the definition of a "core" gamer. Is that the video game equivalent of a film student? What makes one a "core" gamer? I doubt we could even get a solid answer.

Its interesting to see people that haunt Nintendo posts with predictions of doom and gloom do an about-face on this post.. and by interesting I mean predictable..

Whatever. There's plenty of action titles out there. This looks like an actually interesting take on the virtual pet idea, while Eight Days just looked like another shooting game.

"It sucks though, because 8 Days was looking really impressive with what little I saw"

- Yeah, the RENDER was nice.
If they put sone 20-30 millions of $ in development of GAME that could be something good.

But I suppose that virtual pet was a little CHEAPER ;)

you know, a month (or even a few weeks) ago, this probably would've upset me a bit. now, i'm willing to say i applaud Sony's decision. granted, i probably would've had more interest in Eight Days, but the PS360 library is flooded with such (such being "hardcore") games as it is. would've been better had they just continued with both; but given the choice i think Sony made the right one.

now, in exchange for nixing Eight Days Sony whats say you announce Dark Cloud 3, and put a rush on White Knight Chronicles and Team ICO's next project. and by rush i mean, solid gameplay-footage and a firm release date for both by TGS.

That sucks, bring eight days and getaway back. If i wanted a virtual pet id get a nintendo ds....and i dont want a virtual pet which is why i have a ps3 and not a ds.

I don't really care about either game, so maybe my perspective is skewed, but I don't think Sony has a whole lot of casual games out for the PS3. With the possible exception of LBP, most of their upcoming line-up are "core" games. So it doesn't really surprise me that they dumped Eight Days for EyePet.

Randy, I'm sorry but imo your an idiot.

This NOTHING like Nintendo (and btw, why are you people still acting surprised about the Wii and its games). PS has always been doing stuff like this, you might wanna check out Singstar, Buzz, EyeToy stuff, etc. And that's all stuff that started out LAST gen, arguably the most core gamer console back then.

Microsoft wished they had stuff like this (they've literally come out and said that). But then, soon they will, what with all the clones and such, right?

Wow... first sony wants to knock off XBOX Live, now the Wii... Now it shits on the hardcore gamer to go after "casuals"..But I thought the Wii wasn't competition??

Sony Eight Days and the Getaway 3 are so much better then EyePet. So after you are done with that game bring back the other two. Because hard Core gamers are better then casual games. Plus Hard Corers buy the PS3 not casuals they buy the Wii and that tells you right there we don't want these wacky games give us games we want and we want Eight Days and the Getaway 3.

"would seem like something worth investing more time in over a ... virtual pet."

Good thing you guys aren't running sony, or my shares would be in the toilet.

If this leads to Sony adding EyeToy2 to the firmware so we can use it for videochat while in a multiplayer game I'm all for it. Nothing worse than an $50 accessory that has 1 game and 1 upload your video feature.

You can't honestly be serious. While its true that Eight Days might be better as a game, Eyepet might well be one of the things that unites every single gamer. I mean for christ sakes look at the thing. Who could honestly not look at it and not want to just play with their own virtual monkey for hours?