Use to be Psygnosis until they became obsessed with just making Formula 1 games. I didn't much care when they shut their doors as SCE Liverpool since the studio pretty much stopped being relevant after the PS1 days, but man during those days, they were king on PS1.
Probably my next favorite use to be Sony's Japan Studios, who made such games as the Patapon series, Siren series, LocoRoco series, Ico & Shadow of the Colossus, and so on. They seemed to had hit their peak in the 7th gen, and kind of declined after that. Probably my next favorite after that in about the same period was Evolution, who made the Motorstorm series, though I only really liked the first two games, then they went downhill after the PSP/PS2 game, then that awful Apocalypse. Then we got DriveClub and that was it for them, sad.
As for a third party partner, hmm, probably Quantic Dream. I loved games like Indigo Prophecy, I loved how every decision could branch the story so many different ways. I liked Heavy Rain a lot too, though the idea of a mystery kind of effected its replay value in a bad way as you already got it all figured out on the first playthrough. There was absolutely no choice-consequence in Beyond: Two Souls, but man, I loved that story, it was really worth playing for that and that alone. I'm really looking forward to Detroit, given David Cage is stressing bringing back how those little choices can have a variety of outcomes to the story; can't wait to see.
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