SAN MATEO, Calif. — With the surprisingly good Twisted Metal television adaptation in full swing of its second season, sources inside the company have confirmed that Sony will capitalize on the show’s popularity by letting the games continue to languish in the void.
“We are very pleased with both the quality of the show and its performance,” said Sony Head of Multimedia Beth Copeland. “People all over the world have taken a liking to this world and the characters in it. As more and more people become fans of Twisted Metal we are proud to offer them absolutely no new games in the series to play. That would require us to spend money. We simply have no funds in the budget for games outside of our three current franchises.”
Head of PS Studios Hermen Hulst confirmed that no plans for a new Twisted Metal were in the works but told fans there were still ways to enjoy the series when they finish watching the show.
“We considered it but Todd Howard taught us to just have you play the old ones. We have basically all the old ones on PS Plus Premium. We encourage fans to just subscribe and play those. We don’t see a need to revive an old game franchise just because there is a popular television series currently airing and audience appetite. That would divert resources away from what’s really important to us like making a dozen Horizon games no one asked for and funding whatever ‘both sides of the Israel/Palestine conflict are bad’ allegory Neil Druckmann wants to make next”
Twisted Metal fans were not satisfied with Sony’s rationale for letting the series continue to languish.
“Sure I can go and just play the PS1 games or Black and I definitely will but that doesn’t compare to what a new Twisted Metal would be like. I wanna play as Quiet or Stu. I wanna play online with my friends. They aren’t even doing crossovers with other games. Anthony Mackie is in Fortnite as Captain America but he should be in for this, the same amount of people watch the show as that movie anyway, maybe more.”
At press time, Sony has announced in lieu of a new Twisted Metal game they will be developing a remake of Horizon Forbidden West.
