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For Relentless Software, the book has all but closed on Buzz - a quiz series voiced by Jason Donovan and recognised by its bespoke four-button controllers.

What Sony poured champagne over during the glory days of PS2 simply failed to bubble on PS3.

The old business, co-founder Andrew Eades told Eurogamer, weve pretty much closed that off now - the chapter has ended.

But why What happened Buzz and SingStar were supposed to prove that Sony and PS3 could entice an audience Microsoft and Xbox 360 could not.

I dont think anyone can be happy with Buzz PS3 compared to PS2, shrugged Eades.

We Relentless werent enthralled by its performance and we felt that the market got a bit too much Buzz too soon on PS3.

If you dont have 100 million consoles as PS2 did when Buzz first arrived, you dont have a broad-enough demographic to want our kind of game.

Of course the idea was to bring the broad games straight to PlayStation 3 in the launch window, to try and attract that demographic.

But to be honest, 425 for a console is not going to give you a big audience.

My point is, he added - and Im not asking people, Im not sad that people wont do it - when we brought out Buzz on PS2 there was a PS2 Buzz bundle, like you get a Gran Turismo bundle.

And were never going to get that with PS3 for a number of years because its just not appealing at that price.

Things we wanted to happen didnt happen, and thats not Sonys fault, thats not Relentless fault.

The market changed.

We havent changed; weve always made the kind of games that were going to continue making - thats for sure.

Thats not Sonys fault, not our fault - thats the way the market is.

Nevertheless, Relentless Software broke ground with Buzz on PS3, claiming a number of firsts.

We had the first playable user-generated content before LittleBigPlanet; we had the first Trophies ever on a PlayStation game; and we also had the first Facebook connect in a PlayStation game - on any console in fact.

We did a number of projects on Buzz, some of which are still to see the light of day.

Relentless released 12 presumably Sony-commissioned Buzz games for PS3 - including the Junior titles.

But 2010, Eades told us, was tougher than we thought it was going to be - a sentiment personified by a shock of redundancies at the studio recently.

Sony own Buzz, Eades dodged, so its up to them whether they do it or dont do it.

A fresh pair of eyes might help in some respects, but when youve done Buzz for five years its in your bones.

As to whether Sony and Relentless will work together again - either making Buzz on PS3 or PSP or even Next Generation Portable game - were all questions Eades wouldnt confirm or deny.

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