As much as it would be great to say that Sony have not put TM3&4 on the store because they're shit and those guys have our backs after all, that's not the reason.

Both those games use music from licensed bands and it's likely (almost definitely in the case of Rob Zombie) that the games cannot be re-released in digital form because SCEA will have to re-purchase rights to use the music found in those games.

You could point out with a counter argument and say that White Zombie does in fact feature in TMX but notice how it does not feature at all on the downloadable soundtrack.

Sony must have to pay every time the music is used in a separate product and even though TM3&4 would shift some downloads (yes I said that) it would not be cost effective to put them on the store.

Jet Moto 3 was put on the store and taken down shortly after because Sony had not paid for the music rights to be re-issued.

Just a FYI for you there...

All I can do is pray for them to make Harbor City or something like it. After all, Jaffe did say he would like to return to the franchise in a different way beside car-combat. It would be a unique camparison to many games & would catch attention. Any time I talk to average players about TM, they always bring up the fact that they can't get out of the car. I think it's time for some change & have faith in new ideas.

Thumpy wrote on 02/20/13 at 21:29:14:

i would say that is the percentage for jaffe or campbell having anything to do with it

I got my shit wrong earlier.

When I said cross platform between PS4/Vita that should have been PS3/Vita since I just can't see devs putting money into a car combat game when the genre has proved unsuccessful in THIS generation.

Only TM has come close.

ESP,LBI and Superbot have all parted ways with Sony. Can you really see that being the case if all three of those franchises (TM, Starhawk PSASBR) had done well?

If they had I'm betting the studios would have been kept on for DLC, sequels etc.

It appears even All-Stars may not be getting any more DLC after the free stuff.

Looking at the worldwide sales figures I'd say All-Stars is selling pretty well considering it came out in Nov as well?

My new prediction on TM's future is:

LIKELY(ish): a small downloadable game for PS3 and Vita released in the next 2 years.

UNLIKELY: a small downloadable game for PS4 released at the back end of the console's life cycle when dev prices have come down.


I think that's what we have to look forward to ppl

Your welcome to continue your impending TMX brawl...

The franchise may return,....just not car combat. It is way  more likely because the genre isn't very pervasive. Yet, when spliced with collaborative basic design, it becomes something entirely different. Very much like Rage.

I tried to play earlier this month, network error'd for all but one game room. And the host would wait like 10 min before starting each game. :-l

Kil:

At no point in that post did I imply that the 3 studios in question were owned by Sony.
I merely implied that Sony was no longer hiring them to make future installments (or develop DLC) for the 3 games in question.

Mosh:

I've looked about for this info as well and I can't see anything official. There was a mention of more DLC on the game's wiki page but that's it.
I've also read the Oddworld rumour.

I don't think PSASBR is getting anything more at this point.

And I don't know where they'd go with a sequel as I believe Sony has used up pretty much all of it's mascot characters save for the most obscure stuff (and even then some of these Sony owned characters were pretty obscure...).