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Teruyuki Toriyama (Producer of Bloodborne, Soul Sacrifice, Demon's Souls Remake) leaves Sony Japan Studio.
- Thread starter Arubedo
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With a resume like that I don't think I need to wish him well on future endeavors. Because the man is going to crush it. Can't wait to see what his new company makes next!
Leadership team doesn't think JP games have enough global appeal like their Western studio titles.
Looking at what he's produced I thin he might be leaving to make a VR gaming company. He seems to have produced quite a few VR games while at Sony.
I mean, Sony have been losing some pretty major people here for Sony Japan. Games like AstroBot have Western white dudes as the creative leads. It's on Sony to show longterm that they have any care about Japanese developmental voices within their company.
These can't be coincidental. I think all those leaving devs are smelling the blood in the water and are leaving for other projects while there's still something to depart from.
And those "Western white dudes" also put out the best game Japan Studios made by themselves in fucking forever.
Good luck to Toriyama-san on his future endeavors!
Looks like the Bloomberg article's bit on Japan Studio was likely right on the money, I guess it'll be nothing more than a support studio at this rate :(
Looks like the Bloomberg article's bit on Japan Studio was likely right on the money, I guess it'll be nothing more than a support studio at this rate :(
We're comparing across genres so there's no point in even arguing which is better. Sony's developers are becoming more and more white though at the expense of voices from other cultures and races.
Yeah figured, Sony probably will expand a little Team ASOBI, while the rest of Japan Studio is whatever for them right now and all talent will be gone for good.
Well, to be fair they were not wrong on this one.
Well, to be fair they were not wrong on this one.
I'm just not convinced at all that any of the dudes who are leaving, or have left, are a huge loss considering the mediocre output of Japan Studio over the last decade+. I'm strictly talking about games they've developed themselves here and not collabs with external partners. If this leads to fresh faces coming in with new ideas then I think that's a good thing. Having said that, whether Sony will actually invest in JS is another matter entirely and remains to be seen.
Freak bro another one, well, hopefully wherever he lands he gets to work on something awesome. A new company can be the refresh someone needs sometimes.
Damn the defenders came into this thread quick lol y'all didn't even give the other side time to react lmao.
Damn the defenders came into this thread quick lol y'all didn't even give the other side time to react lmao.
Which, while on paper is a potentially a serious issue, doesn't reflect how Sony's Japanese studio has been producing nothing better than mediocre for a while now. The only thing I could consider to be extremely good would be Bloodborne.
Even Gravity Rush 1 and 2 are neat ideas that manifested into some pretty mediocre set of games that is made far more memorable thanks to Kohei Tanaka's soundtrack.
The only hope is these people can get a breath of fresh air and maybe start producing some really good games again. But they clearly weren't getting it done at Sony.
I really don't like the direction sony's first party is going in. The Japanese studios are bleeding talent.
The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush 2 are two of the best games from last gen. Even if someone isn't a huge fan of either of those, the diversity they bring is important.
There's definitely a certain direction that a lot of Sony's western titles are starting to share and they'll be in need of shakeup soon.
I dont think so. While I couldn't care less for Sony's western output, their Japan Studio output was far more interesting. Yet, even something as mediocre as Days Gone outsold all Japan Studio's output on PS4.
I mean, Japan Studio doesn't need many producers as they will likely be the "Astro's Bot Studio" for the next few years. Whoever wanted to create something original is leaving the studio at the moment.
