David Jaffe is 100% Sony, despite new office

by Nick Doerr { Jun 25th 2007 at 12:45PM }

While rumors abounded about David Jaffe leaving his position at Sony to open a new studio with some buddies at Incognito Entertainment, we held back until we got more information. Good thing we did, because the rest of the internet buzzed with headlines along the lines of "Jaffe leaves SCEA, world doomed!" We remained optimistic and Jaffe answered our uncertainty on the NeoGAF forums.

Jaffe replied to the rumors of a Utah office and leaving Sony by saying "I can promise you guys I am still part of SCEA...I just got a paycheck from them! I am still 100% a Sony employee and unless I got fired today and they didn't tell me, I'm still working for them ... I sure as s**t ain't moving to Utah...nice as it is, I don't think I could live there long term and I don't think the good people of Utah would want me to." However, Jaffe is working with Incognito and has a Utah-based office in the works. So, he's still a Sony guy and isn't moving to Utah, but will have a new office to crank out those super-fun PSN titles. As the new studio progresses, we'll keep you up to date with our favorite developer.

[via GameDaily]

Tags: David Jaffe, DavidJaffe, Incognito, PlayStation 3, Playstation3, PS3, SCEA, Sony

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

rfom @ Jun 25th 2007 2:21PM

..if Jaffe did leave, would it impact GoD of war 3?
I wonder how much of a difference do the head honchos make (especially once the series is well conceptualised). For instance a star Capcom guy (forget his name) who was the brains behind RE4 has quit Capcom - has it hurt Capcom? RE5 will tell.

mccomber @ Jun 25th 2007 3:12PM

I love how the internet has allowed any rumour, innuendo or even hint of something happening to become "news". Between this, the constant "oh noes, MGS4/FFXIII is going to 360!" and any other number of random crap that gets passed along as fact, it's pretty much impossible to believe anything that you read on any of the blogs.