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Nicolas Doucet (astrobot director) has been promoted to studio director of Sony Japan Studios
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I'm so happy for him. His career is such an interesting one.
I love the fact that while "just" working at London Studio, he straight up wrote to Yoshida in order to move to Japan Studio.
I love the fact that while "just" working at London Studio, he straight up wrote to Yoshida in order to move to Japan Studio.
From my understanding previously he was the Creative Director for Team Astro (Astro Bot team), but now he's the Studio Head of all teams under SIE Japan Studio.
Ps is European confirmed hehe. To be fair he is talented as hell so he deserves it and congrats to Sony for realizing his potential
He's still a (the?) creative director, but is also now studio director.
I presume the latter is a more senior role giving him more authority over the studio's work in general.
I don't own a PS4 or psvr but every time someone talks about astrobot it is only to say how amazing the game is
If it means we get more games similar to Astro Bot I'm all for it.
It is the only PSVR game I am interested in.
I already have a PCVR headset, but for that one I might buy it lol
The thing is I'm not even looking for you guys to get less. I want Playstation to continue delving into VR and making stuff the fans love.
I just... want something like Wild Arms or Arc the Lad again on PS4 or 5. At least put the old games on PSN lol.
Its not like Japan Studio has developed a bunch of games like the ones you mentioned anyway (I think Legend of Dragoon is the only JRPG they've made internally). Their internal projects have always been more experimental and quirky
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Hey if that ends up leading to not having to watch the next sony conference at 3am i am all for it lol
I know but it just continues to cement Playstation's intention to focus on the west exclusively. They would rather leave the Japanese market to third parties and it just sucks. They used to do both. We used to have quirky Japanese games and western first parties since the PS1.
They haven't been making JRPGs or the like for a long time now. Its been stuff like Astro Bot and The Last Guardian for like the last decade. They've never really been pumping out "anime" style games.
Anime ? You don't understand how great this is for future Japan Studio games. Speaking about Nintendo:
Doucet is going to bring Nintendo touch to all Japan studio games as Nintendo gameplay & magic was his main philosophy as a creative director for Astrobot.
We can probably all thank Shu for this as it was him who first trusted him and brought him to Japan (after Doucet asked him if he could work for Japan Studio in Japan, years ago).
This is a weird take. Like a westerner director can't somehow make a japanese inspired game.
Word.
And after 4 consoles and 2 handhelds it's only fair to let europe take the lead for once. US and JP had their time in the spotlight.
Hell yeah. Astro Bot is the best platformer of the generation. I'm fully in support of this man taking over.
I didn't say that. It's just sad that Sony's only Japanese studio (I don't count Team Ico as a separate one) now being head by a western director.
tbf he said Anime styled game which I assume meaning Anime aesthetic
I can't recall any western dev doing that
I feel like Japan Studio has so much potential even though they do put out some good stuff,I hope they can reach new heights next gen.
Its also not exactly something that Studio Japan is known for unless games like Siren are supposed to be "anime" because they come from Japan.
