PlayStation Studios |OT16| Where we're going, we don't need loads.
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nah I know SIE Japan won't ever make a JRPG and I know LoD won't ever get revived, at most maybe the highest thing is a PSN avatar maybe way into the future. SIE Japan won't ever make an inhouse big budget JRPG, this is the reality, any belief otherwise is just make belief, regardless if SIE Japan is successful or not successful in the future.
I just want to see what SIE Japan does in the future, if they can dip their toes in bigger projects like other WWS.
If that is more AstroBot but bigger and better then good, if it is a new I.P, then good, if it is any genre they want even a horror game that is a spiritual successor to Siren and Silent Hill, then good as well.
As long as they find their groove and grow as a studio, I am okay with it and hope for it. As long as they are making and continuing their own I.Ps or rather SIE I.Ps.
I.Ps they have control over, I.Ps that by growing them they contribute to their own long term growth. This isn't about being truly "exclusive" idc if said I.Ps go on any type of platform, as long as said platform doesn't restrict development and ambition.
As long as it isn't them scaling down or being chained up to be someone else I.P work house that isn't even theirs to begin with.
I get fandoms loving franchises and wanting to see more of said franchise regardless of who is making it but I just want growth to be something that the studio fully controls for I.Ps/franchises they own, made and love. To see success in that and not waste away said prospects under some other companies I.Ps were your freedom and growth is limited.
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Astro by far, with Demon's Souls and Miles second and third respectively.
Also, welcome! :)
We know that Tsutomu Kouno is directing a game at Japan Studio and it could be the project that Shuhei Yoshida said at E3 2015 that he was really excited about it. If i remember correctly he said that Japan Studio was now producing a really great project.
Maybe that project is cancelled? As I recall someone from Japan Studio said the project will be revealed in 2018 or 2019 but it still hasn't been revealed yet.
If only they could leak/report what's exactly Japan Studio doing right now, as in developing what game & genre, other than 'negative' PS5 in Japan news...
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Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Japan Studio became "Astro's studio" going forward. Probably those who disagree with the idea had the door open to leave. The studio will likely continue to support other games, as a new division just for that was created in early 2020.
At least we'll get more Astro in regular basis, I think.
At least we'll get more Astro in regular basis, I think.
Why can't talent leave and do something else? This guy is probably more excited starting up a new business (which is way harder then if he stayed).
Masaaki Yamagiwa is still there (still...). His role is more critical for their recent titles like Bloodborne and Deracine.
Is there like conflict with the new studio head or something? It's sad to see all these people left
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Seems more like people are getting older and wanting to do new things.
Probably a new direction. Old guys are leaving, new ones may come. Or Sony is buying CAPCOM :D
Nicolas Doucet (Astro's Bot Director) were named head of Japan Studio earlier this year. As I said to a few posts above, it wouldn't be difficult to see the entire studio focusing on more Astro games (or that type of game, he also directed Eyepet, Playroom and etc), leaving little room for new IPs/Ideas
I live in a small country and starting to think we won't get restock before spring (April) at earliest. After pre-orders we got no restock here for over a month so far. I want one in time for Returnal release. Sigh.
Japan Studio will focus much more on Astrobot, VR and more common AAA titles from now on. Toyama hinted at it in an interview he made for his new studio. Unfortunately all the games the studio has made in recent memory have been good but commercial failures.
You can't pretend for Sony to focus where the money does not go. They'll try to create a common thread among all their studios with AAA, Single player and story driven games. The variety will come from the indie partnerships that have been great so far while the purely Japanese titles will come from partnerships with big publishers and devs there.
You can't pretend for Sony to focus where the money does not go. They'll try to create a common thread among all their studios with AAA, Single player and story driven games. The variety will come from the indie partnerships that have been great so far while the purely Japanese titles will come from partnerships with big publishers and devs there.
Bloodborne and Demon's souls were made by From Software and Bluepoint, Japan Studio was just a support studio and you need far fewer people than you think for it. All games Japan Studio has made recently have been critical successes, but commercial failures.
I'm fine with SIE Japan becoming a Astro/VR & Support studio. Sony is going to need stronger first party devs working on PSVR2 with the increase competition of Oculus (can't believe we lost RAD and Sanzaru T_T).
As far as I can tell these are the only first party devs that are willing to work on VR: Insomniac (Stormland), Japan (Astro), London (Blood), Mm (Dreams VR Mode), Pixelopus (Concrete VR Mode) and Polyphony (GTS VR mode).
Time to let the JRPG dream die, its in SE/Falcom/Atlus hands now.
As far as I can tell these are the only first party devs that are willing to work on VR: Insomniac (Stormland), Japan (Astro), London (Blood), Mm (Dreams VR Mode), Pixelopus (Concrete VR Mode) and Polyphony (GTS VR mode).
Time to let the JRPG dream die, its in SE/Falcom/Atlus hands now.
They probably want to do more then function as a support studio for Sony's AAA western games
Japan Studio's glory days are long long gone
I doubt it. It's pretty common for people to come and go in this industry.
I'm waiting the day when PS Studios from Western/Europe to take RPG genre with Japanese aesthetics & success with it for the irony.
Any minute now...
Any minute now...
Interesting I never knew about this information. Thanks for sharing.
Happy holidays everyone.
It wasn't the best year, not for me personally, but at least we can say that we had fun here.
It wasn't the best year, not for me personally, but at least we can say that we had fun here.
Wish him the best with his future endeavor and new company.
His twitter account links to many other SIE japan twitter accounts to the right, via the "you might like" bar.
I never knew that a ton of SIE Japan employees had twitter accounts? the more you know I guess.
It's incredibly sad that Japan is so full of talent and 3rd party games from Japan are by absolute fav out there, but I couldn't care less about what happens to Japan studio. Polyphony Digital will stay running which is all I care about, besides that I honestly can't think of the last game Japan Studio made which I enjoyed. How we have had so many years of no AAA game from that studio is baffling to me, those experimental games from them just don't do it for me and I hope we do get big production value games from them in the future.
But we won't, so whatever really.
But we won't, so whatever really.
Holy Batman Hyperbole. I don't think anyone is destroying Japan Studio and we just had one of the best games to come out at the start of the generation from them in collaboration with BluePoint.
Considering the people that left either hadn't produced a single hit critically or commercially for over a decade or were just support for Sony's second party ventures, I wouldn't be worried about Japan Studios. If you look at what they developed in house for console the past decade, you get Knack, GR2 and the Last Guardian (which took ages to be released). The latter is the only great game and even then Ueda and his creative team had already long left the company. Pupeteer was great and the people involved are still there and Gavin directed DS remake.
The young blood there also produced Astrobot and I'm sure they've got other things cooking.
People will still take the bloomberg article as gospel despite other western Sony studios constantly changing staff over the years, even the highly successful ones. Sony just launched PS5 with two great games involving Japan studio but some people will pretend its not true.
The young blood there also produced Astrobot and I'm sure they've got other things cooking.
People will still take the bloomberg article as gospel despite other western Sony studios constantly changing staff over the years, even the highly successful ones. Sony just launched PS5 with two great games involving Japan studio but some people will pretend its not true.
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It seems pretty clear that Sony wants to develop bigger AAA games in Japan that are more focused on its western market. Toyama's games were not of this type. (Smaller games with greater creative freedom).
The Polyphony Digital workforce increase is a good indication of this.
The Polyphony Digital workforce increase is a good indication of this.
Happy holidays, ResetERA! Here's to hoping 2021 is a banger year in all aspects, not just games 🥳
I hate how part of resetera is now having this weird fixation with hires and lay offs(and also this whole thing of searching developers LinkedIns).
"The Iniative hires one of the artists of X game"
"Nintendo looking for a Designer for Metroid"
"Someone leaves Sony"
This is insufferable, not dismissing what this people did at the company etc etc, it's probably a bummer seeing old people leaving, but almost everyone is repleacabe, those are teams with dozens, hundrends and even thousands sometimes, like c'mon.
"The Iniative hires one of the artists of X game"
"Nintendo looking for a Designer for Metroid"
"Someone leaves Sony"
This is insufferable, not dismissing what this people did at the company etc etc, it's probably a bummer seeing old people leaving, but almost everyone is repleacabe, those are teams with dozens, hundrends and even thousands sometimes, like c'mon.
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Yeah most of it is literally 'business as usual'. That said, there are some more senior (as in, position) people that might implicate something. Kojima leaving Konami for example.. or a hypothetical Miyamoto leaving Nintendo.
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