-Jeff just said "that's completely false. Bend was never going to be a support studio for ND"
Basically he said that the rumor Bend being turned into ND North is bullshit.
-Jason Schreier never said that.
He spoke with people that "feared" that something like that could happen, he didn't say they turned Bend into a ND support studio. This is what I understood.
Go reread Jason's bloomberg article. He doesn't claim it is becoming a Naughty Dog support studio from now on. He quite literally says the opposite as he reported they requested to get taken off Uncharted to work on new IP and were granted that. Stop frothing at the mouths
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Jeff:
"There was an opportunity to work with them in a limited capacity, but that was mostly to kinda keep the staff happy. You know, when you're working on a game in early days, ther's not a lot to work on. So that was kinda to keep idle hands busy, and a lot of people were desperate to go do it, because they didn't have anything significant to do at the
time. but Bend was never going to be a support studio for ND. Some people would say that, because they're you know, fearful of things, but that is not a reality. It was collaborative"
-According to Jeff there was never a risk of becoming ND support, so those suggestions of fears in the article were made in bad faith to suggest it was a true possibility, when in fact, as Jeff said, it was just normal procedure for downtime between games.
Jeff also said DG2 was in some sort of production when he left, so that goes against what Jason said. All of these factors means that Jason didn’t do his due diligence to the standard expected from Bloomberg reporting. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the VASG stuff was riddled with inaccuracies too.
-Jeff Ross just clarified on the Jaffe stream that Bend was helping ND on a project to keep some of their employees busy and it was a collaborative move not that Bend was to be come a ND sub dev per Sony's direction.