View Full Version : Team 17: Can you buy Lemmings rights back from Sony?
Flavius
11 Oct 2007, 17:58
I would love to see Lemmings on DS, Wii, and 360, so you could you please buy the Lemmings rights back from the quickly dying Sony? I'd pay a fortune for DS version of Lemmings with original levels and music, and it would make a great XBLA game and Wii game too.
If not, could you at least convince them to publish the UK PS2 Lemmings version in the US?
AndrewTaylor
11 Oct 2007, 18:12
I would love to see Lemmings on DS, Wii, and 360, so you could you please buy the Lemmings rights back from the quickly dying Sony? I'd pay a fortune for DS version of Lemmings with original levels and music, and it would make a great XBLA game and Wii game too.
If not, could you at least convince them to publish the UK PS2 Lemmings version in the US?
Is this a joke?
1. Team17 never owned Lemmings.
2. Sony are not going anywhere, quickly or otherwise.
3. Team17 couldn't afford to buy Lemmings. Well, perhaps they could if they sold Worms first...
so you could you please buy the Lemmings rights back from the quickly dying Sony?
.FAILURE!.
thomasp
12 Oct 2007, 08:31
... quickly dying Sony?
Do you have a source for this?
Also, I sincerely doubt a tiny little Yorkshire-based beer-drinking games development company could afford to purchase the rights to a very popular game series off one of the giants of the world.
Do you have a source for this?
Also, I sincerely doubt a tiny little Yorkshire-based beer-drinking games development company could afford to purchase the rights to a very popular game series off one of the giants of the world.
is lemmings worth that much however?, the way sony have played with it you wouldn't have thought so. I guess they have just been testing the waters to see if the water is still warm in lemmingland.
Flauvius; Sony is one of the biggest companies in the world and is a bigger economic entity than many countries in the world, its almost impossible for sony to die.
thomasp
12 Oct 2007, 11:08
is lemmings worth that much however?
I doubt you could buy it from Sony with the cash you have in your pockets now :p
I doubt you could buy it from Sony with the cash you have in your pockets now :p
I have a watch and a pen knife in my pocket right now. However my savings account might help.
Akuryou13
12 Oct 2007, 16:27
the quickly dying Sony? you do realize that sony is responsible for a rather large portion of home electronics hardware in all the varieties that home entertainment products are produced in. they even make cell phones and other communication devices.
if they were to produce a Playstation 4 that sold 0 units, they would STILL be one of the biggest and most successful companies known to man kind. if there is never another sale of playstation anything, they would still have a huge amount of money and huge hold in the home electronics industry.
and hell, even hating the PS3 as I do, I have to admit it's no longer THAT damn bad. at least now that they're dropping the price to a reasonable range.
if they were to produce a Playstation 4 that sold 0 units, they would STILL be one of the biggest and most successful companies known to man kind. if there is never another sale of playstation anything, they would still have a huge amount of money and huge hold in the home electronics industry.
The PS3 will be Sony's version of the Dreamcast. They're shooting themselves in the foot over and over again and giving the gaming public less and less reason to invest.
and hell, even hating the PS3 as I do, I have to admit it's no longer THAT damn bad. at least now that they're dropping the price to a reasonable range.
From what I understand, it's now worse than it was, since it no longer supports any form of backwards compatibility. Combine that with the quite frankly offensive "price-drop" and you've got an instant one-way ticket out of the industry.
Having said that, I'd still rather own a dying Sony console than any Microsoft console.
Oh, and as for Lemmings, surely Sony owns the rights by default? They bought out Psygnosis (Lemmings creator) and turned it into SCE Studio Liverpool where they now churn out Wipeout after Wipeout. Maybe they should rename the franchise Churnout. Anyway, by my reckoning, Sony owns the rights to Lemmings. Regardless, Team17 would be hard pushed to afford to buy it from them. I get the impression they're quite hard-pushed to develop their own IP...
Ok... ummm.... let me rephrase this by admitting that:
1) Sony is not going anywhere and I am a new PS3 owner.
2) When I mean buy back what I really meant was "buy". Period. I knew it was Psygnosis game, I played it on my Amiga in the 80s for crap's sake.
3) It was wishful thinking to think Team17 could afford it.
But really, the amount of vitriol generated against me is just staggering.... from presumably fellow Lemming fans no less. I guess we must all be old and bitter by now, eh?
Squirminator2k
4 Feb 2008, 21:07
2) When I mean buy back what I really meant was "buy". Period. I knew it was Psygnosis game, I played it on my Amiga in the 80s for crap's sake.
Quite an achievement, considering the game first came out in 1990 :)
Quite an achievement, considering the game first came out in 1990 :)
Wow.... just wow... Look, I was 13 years old and I thought it was 1989 at the time. I always get 1989 and 1990 confused in my memory. Pardon me for not fact checking.
Squirminator2k
4 Feb 2008, 21:31
Wow.... just wow... Look, I was 13 years old and I thought it was 1989 at the time. I always get 1989 and 1990 confused in my memory. Pardon me for not fact checking.
Interesting Fact: Most people, when reading comments they see on the internet, interpret the comments negatively. Maybe that's why you're seeing everyone's comments as vitriolic. Try reading my comment again, imagining hearing a cheeky British accent smiling in a jokey manner. See? Not vitriolic at all!
Interesting Fact: Most people, when reading comments they see on the internet, interpret the comments negatively. Maybe that's why you're seeing everyone's comments as vitriolic. Try reading my comment again, imagining hearing a cheeky British accent smiling in a jokey manner. See? Not vitriolic at all!
And, if all else fails, rely on the smiley face to set the mood! :D
Interesting Fact: Most people, when reading comments they see on the internet, interpret the comments negatively. Maybe that's why you're seeing everyone's comments as vitriolic. Try reading my comment again, imagining hearing a cheeky British accent smiling in a jokey manner. See? Not vitriolic at all!
But it says you're in LA, not in Great Britain. I have more respect for Britons than for LAers (blame Monty Python). Anyway, point taken.
Squirminator2k
5 Feb 2008, 20:31
But it says you're in LA, not in Great Britain. I have more respect for Britons than for LAers (blame Monty Python). Anyway, point taken.
I happen to be British. I moved to LA in June of last year.
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