Eight Days Cancelled Because Of EyePet

Linkin Park Fan | August 29, 2008 | News | Playstation 3

Recently announced PlaystationEye game, EyePet has captured the hearts of many gamers. But this game would have never been shown if it wasn't for the cancellation of Eight Days. London studios was working on Eight Days and The Getaway 3, and at the time, Eyepet was only a concept. But The Head Honcho Shuhei Yoshida told the studio to start working on EyePet. The work was to much for the studio so they had to can the production for the other two games. Well there you have it, two hardcore games cancelled for a virtual pet.

It's harder to single out Nintendo for overlooking its "core audience" when you find out things like this. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Shuhei Yoshida, Sony's head of worldwide studios, revealed that the company chose to fund development of a desktop toy virtual pet – EyePet – over a promising core audience action title, Eight Days.

When asked about the effect that canceling London Studio projects The Getaway 3 and Eight Days had on other titles, Yoshida responded, "There are so many things that we want to do, more than we can do with the resources. 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." So ... EyePet it was.

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BlackLabel | August 29, 2008

Woooooo hooooo back when Eight Days and The Getaway 3 were cancelled i was annoyed but on the PS3 it has too many hardcore games (unlike the Wii ) sometimes i wish i had a game like EyePet (or any game for that matter) that i could just sit down with and just watch the time fly, no storyline nothing like that just harmless fun.
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  Koloth | August 29, 2008
  
  Little Big Planet, flOw, flOwer, Pain(for what it's worth). We have plenty of time waster games for the PS3.
  
  I probably wouldn't have bought Eight Days or The Getaway. And I probably will buy this. Still kind of strange to cancel those two games for this. Given the usual demographic for Playstation systems.
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    BlackLabel | August 29, 2008
    
    Thats a few i mean it hardly dents the number of games made for adults and i'm not complaining, atleast we have games right but i quite like the idea that Sony took the risk and cancelled two pretty high profile games for something that might or might not appeal to kids, adults, women, the elderly alike.
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Krunal | August 29, 2008

WTF, I'm not even remotely interested in EyePet, and two games that actually looked interesting were canned for that??

I would honestly rather have Eight Days and/or The Getaway 3.
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Cruxis Mana | August 29, 2008

Do you think it would just be easier if I just went and kicked Sony in the nuts personally ?
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Goldva_X | August 29, 2008

Nooo, say it ain't so, Sony; Say it ain't so!
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kik36 | August 29, 2008

Ummmmmm WTF? Well if it sells I suppose..........will it have trophy support? LMFAO

Bronze Trophy- Pet your virtual pet
Silver Trophy- Feed your virtual pet
Gold Trophy- Raise your pet to maturity without beating it.

LMFAO
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Jak66 | August 29, 2008

Eight Days looked like one of the best games ever. The gameplay was the smoothest and most realistic movements in video game history, and they canned it so that people can wave their fingers in front of a little camera? I want to die so badly right now.