Mike, you should read the history of Psygnosis; except for WO3, and perhaps a port of WO2 made for Nintendo 64, all WipEout versions have been made at Studio Liverpool, and Sony owned controlling interest in Psygnosis in 1993 before the first WipEout was released. And for the record, one more time, Designer's Republic did nOt design the ships. And the Assegai design was always owned by Sony; it was created at another Sony-owned studio, Studio Leeds.