sand4fish wrote: disbeliever wrote: Well, at least I have "Joel Tess" and the video above to think that there's something in the air...
What do you have to think that it "doesn't mean anything"? Just because you say so?
You're right! Naughty Dog is more than willing to take away part of its budget on Uncharted 4 and put it in Shenmue 3. After all SHENMUE 3 > UNCHARTED 4. Everybody knows that!
With irony turned off, this is actually exactly how I feel, even though I loved all of Uncharted!
But how can you know how things work at Naughty Dog business-wise to make such assumption? After Uncharted 2 they did split into 2 teams, each of them taking care of development of Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us. They do exchange their experience and technologies with other SCE studios, after all it is a studio fully owned by Sony.
You'd wonder how easy things may work when it comes to budget for studios delivering premium titles, such as ND or f.e. Rockstar. Sometimes, a one simple phone call is enough and their budget grows by 1 Milion $ just to implement a feature they want to have in the game. The trust they put in those teams is huge, all of them having a conversion rate from one title to another by over 90%, which is the top of the benchmark in this industry.
But staying on topic, I personally don't think they'd put Joel Tess in there just to make fun of... some of us.