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Incidentally, for all their bluster, 989 Studios went on to flood the market with countless sports and action titles, most of which were found to be merely average or worse by the gaming community. Eventually, 989 developed a reputation for pushing games out the door long before they were polished and ready. Even the reviewers couldn't dismiss this fact. I don't know what happened to them but it's been quite a while since anyone's heard a thing out of 989. They were probably absorbed by Activision or something. But you see where the mass-market onslaught approach can go dreadfully wrong when you care more about shoring up solid reviews than creating a worthwhile product.
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IIRC, 989 Studios was bought up by Sony and became their in-house developing party. Then, as 'Lith and you said, they wrecked Twisted Metal and Jet Moto, and put out a lot of shit onto the PSX, each title flopping more horribly than the previous. Finally, 989 was shut down shortly before the PS2 launched because... well, they were shitty developers putting out shitty games, and nobody bought their shit.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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