Getaway 3, Eight Days not canceled, just 'put to one side'

by Justin McElroy { Oct 8th 2009 at 4:30PM }

We're not so swift on the uptake sometimes, so maybe you can help us make this distinction. Nicolas Doucet of Sony Computer Entertainment's London Studio told Gamespot that action titles Eight Days and The Getaway 3 aren't "abandoned" per se, just "put to one side." To clarify: No one is working on these things at all while the team focuses on EyePet and Singstar.

So, basically, no one has put the files for the games on to a single computer, doused it in gasoline, flipped it off and then set it ablaze. Because that's apparently what it takes for a game to be classified as canceled.

Tags: eight-days, nicolas-doucet, sony, sony-london, the-getaway-3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

HeXeN @ Oct 8th 2009 4:33PM

Well at least they are not canceled so they could go back to them at any time.I just wish some people would stop putting all the blame on eyepet.

sonicspike41 @ Oct 8th 2009 4:45PM

They probably blame eyepet because, I mean...

"No one is working on these things at all while the team focuses on EyePet"

"Sony's head of worldwide studios, revealed that the company chose to fund development of a virtual pet – EyePet – over a promising core audience action title, Eight Days."

"So when London Studio was looking at the early work on EyePet and the prototype of Eight Days, they knew they couldn't do all of them."

Sure Eyepet wasn't the only reason (lack of online being another big one), but it was a significant enough reason.

CzAr @ Oct 8th 2009 8:24PM

Good, save some games for later on. October is bad enough with games.

ThePhantomnaut @ Oct 8th 2009 4:35PM

Good that there is a possibility.

Traceur_Ryuk [All Digital until December] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Oct 8th 2009 4:38PM

I won't buy the games anyways, same old thing.

Avatar @ Oct 8th 2009 9:31PM

I'm gonna pretend that you meant Singstar and vote you up.

jarhead906 @ Oct 8th 2009 4:41PM

I loved the fluid character animations in Eight Days' tech demo.

mavbsbll21@yahoo.com @ Oct 8th 2009 5:38PM

5 days til Uncharted 2 my friend =p

spikeylee @ Oct 8th 2009 4:44PM

They should get back to work on The Getaway! A realistic recreation of London on the PS3 would be incredible.

Despite its flaws, I really enjoyed the first Getaway. The second outing had its moments as well.

tmacairjordan87 @ Oct 8th 2009 4:46PM

I'll believe it when I see them, until then I'll keep hating Eyepet as much as I can.

WREturns @ Oct 8th 2009 4:49PM

The answer is actually to love Eyepet so much that these guys get more money to work on projects like 8 Days and the Getaway 3. If you want either of these games you better hope people buy the shit out of Eyepet.

tmacairjordan87 @ Oct 8th 2009 4:52PM

Nope, the damage has been done already and I don't want it doing well otherwise it will tell Sony to cancel more promising games for casual crap. If I had my way, the whole London studio would be shut down for pulling that stunt.

sonicspike41 @ Oct 8th 2009 5:42PM

If Eyepet does really well... what's to stop Sony from putting even more money into Eyepet instead of these games? They could turn Eyepet into an entire franchise with toys, expansions, etc.

Now, if Eyepet doesn't do so well Sony might think "Well guess it's back to the other games we had in the line, might as well finish what we already started, rather than wasting any more time and effort into Eyepet."

Of course they might think along your lines just as much. I'm just offering some other possibilities.

sharaz @ Oct 8th 2009 4:47PM

Sony Computer Entertainment's London Studio are a bunch of bull shitters, Has anyone seen any screen shots of any of these games recently? NO because they were never in development just some CG to make Sonys PS3 look like it performed better then it dose No game has come close to reproducing those type of graphics with a thriving city and a bunch of cars and pediatricians all on screen while still maintaining Gran Turismo style vehicle graphics

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Oct 8th 2009 6:38PM

soooo what you are saying is "Pics or it didn't happen"? Sorry dude...that doesn't apply....PLENTY of things are being made right now some of which you might not see til 2015....

Maverick Saturn (Igor) @ Oct 8th 2009 6:51PM

Don't talk nonsense Sharaz, you know jack shit about the situation as much as we do, CG they may have been, but lookie here: http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/614/614784/the-getaway-3-20050516072440159.jpg

Theres nothing in that pic (unlike Killzone tech demo) that says its an impossible task. Look how Killzone turned out in the end, not quite the tech demo, but beautiful by all means, look how GTA4 looked, gorgeous. So what you on about? Isn't exactly hard for a Sony developer to push a Sony console. Its thier own neighbourhood.

Nando @ Oct 9th 2009 12:04AM

Fail
Internet is your friend:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=8+days+tech+demo&search_type=&aq=f

Specially this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSA6jJeOv4

Tom Kalinske, Former CEO of Sega of America @ Oct 8th 2009 4:54PM

Putting to one side?

That's what I'm doing. Yes, I'm committing 'virtual seppuku' and retiring the Tom Kalinske alter-persona.

It's been great. Really. But there are too many Tom-haters for me to continue. Maybe now people will stop whining how 'ur a poser' and 'Peter Moore is better!'.

I leave you with one final word.

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WREturns @ Oct 8th 2009 4:56PM

Finally! Hack...

Mr Khan @ Oct 8th 2009 4:58PM

Since he's dead, i'll be hijacking his reply thread to officially announce my addition of a 5th avatar to my rotating lineup

Toon Link: He sees what you did.

All to commemorate my movement into the 5th digit of comments. 10,000 on this account.

Electro Poof [Super Nintendo IT ONLY DOES EVERYTHING - Now Only $29.99] @ Oct 8th 2009 5:03PM

Who's dead?

Mr Khan @ Oct 8th 2009 5:01PM

Not a good sign either way, i say. Shelving takes you close to the brink of cancellation, interferes with the development process, and is rarely beneficial for the final product (unless they just completely scrap what they had going and restart the projects from scratch. Not to say it's bad, but the on-again off-again dev process just doesn't work)

CH3BURASHKA @ Oct 8th 2009 5:27PM

Black dude looks like black dude from The Green Mile. Awesome movie and awesome book.

sapplelover @ Oct 8th 2009 5:33PM

i was so intrigued by the eight days trailer. it made me want to buy a ps3(well, that and im a huge naughty dog fan). hopefully we get these games by next year

iTzDaKroniK @ Oct 8th 2009 5:36PM

Good to hear since Eight Days was on my PS3 wish list as soon as i saw the trailer.

refinedsugar @ Oct 8th 2009 5:41PM

OMG, it's Ving Rhames! Driver V! lol

Rawg @ Oct 8th 2009 5:57PM

I was thinking that screenshot on the article looked like it was straight off that new ncis :/

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Oct 8th 2009 6:29PM

I thought this would please TMac....guess not....lol...

my guess is we will see one if not both of these by 2013....

michael @ Oct 8th 2009 6:44PM

I knew they would never cancelled the game. These games are hard to eliminate and they work so hard on it. Do you think they would give up for nothing? The good news is that we got trophies and the Playstation 3 Motion Controller (aka Playstation Sphere as it's probably rumored to be called) have helped the PS3. For Eight Days, I think the motion controller would work perfectly for this game (The Getaway 3, let's leave it to Dualshock 3/sixaxis).

Maverick Saturn (Igor) @ Oct 8th 2009 6:53PM

Getaway needs a tune up, if it plays like GTA and less like its previous installments, its bought, I'm craving a GTA in London more then anything!

Confucius @ Oct 8th 2009 7:14PM

I hope the Getaway comes out first.
I didn't especially like the 1st two games, but I did like the stories.
By the way how do you go from deving eyepet to 2 mature hardcore games.

Pico_Suarez @ Oct 8th 2009 8:24PM

Did the angle of the picture remind anyone else of Pulp Fiction?

will @ Oct 8th 2009 10:10PM

whoa, what?! There was a Getaway 2??

ezy969 @ Oct 8th 2009 11:27PM

singstar thats a joke if there working on where is the proof we all been waiting for for years now iee ( wheres v3, wireless mics and any content the u.s might like ) sad we have to import and create extra uk accounts to get music we like o spent almost 60 bucks on songs form uk store and im sure there missing out on songs that people that dont open up uk or wish to jump through hoops to get good content and shotty updates while we get maybe 12 songs that no one knows and update the uk get 30+ wth songs we may actualy buy