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They will still have partnerships with JP devs even more so for the big ones.
Don't think anybody has to worry about that .
All these marketing and timed exclusive deal were not done by Japan Studio alone .
It was sad then it is sad now.
I think unlike last time though Jim Ryan is also unsocial beyond statistics so no one can relate to him and so people like myself are distance in terms of what we know he will bring in the future.
I only know he will bring cut throat profits though so if I was a stock investor I'd be happy.
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Support the games you believe in my friend. Your wallet is indeed a vote.
I knew how many people that sang about Gravity Rush elsewhere, did fan art for it to but never actually bought the games.
Huh? Asobi Team and the support team still exists.
They basically ended Team Gravity, which is a shame anyway.
Mark Cerny during his Knack 2 interview said there was about 5 "teams" or rather leads and people would shuffle from one to the other to get games done.
I until a few hours ago assumed they just centered it into one AAA team for Silent Hill besides Team Asobi but that seemed not to be the case.
Team Gravity was over when the founder went to make Bokeh Game Studio.
Asobi Team still exists. A small skeleton crew of their former external development team will get integrated into SIE Japan. Japan Studio is no more.
Gravity Rush seems kind of like Wonderful 101. The characters/games got so much fanart and praise, and based just off forums, you would think they were huge games.
Studio Japan clearly had multiple projects canned. They shipped TLG, GR2 and Knack 2 within a year in 16/17 but since then, only Astro Bot games have released from their internal teams. They weren't doing nothing for 3-4 years. Had to have been a major factor in the reduction.
Wait so, the support team at Japan Studio is still around? So the people that helped Bluepoint with the Demon's Souls remake are still there? I know the producers left but they weren't involved in the remake right?
Exactly. Big fandom. Not so big when it comes to actually buying the game.
Jim sometimes don't do good PR but i don't think he is unsocial beyond statistics .
You can see his game play and it not much different from what Sony was doing in the past .
Grow there internal studios , pay for deals etc etc .
Yes certain things under his watch but those thing were going to happen no matter what like , studio getting shut down , price getting rise , even PC ports .
Some people want someone to blame but to me it's business as usual for Sony .
At least they try and save something out of Japan compare to full shut down of other devs .
Yes, but now under "PS Studios" branding like the other studios.
How can they rest in peace if they ever even existed in the first place 😏
It was probably costly but I would've liked it if Japan Studio tried one more chance in a single AAA project to see if they can move on from being 5 teams to a single one team.
Let it ship and see where it goes. Better yet do an old I.P favoured by many as well.
For now though I guess I got to believe in 2nd party doing that instead. I am happy though that Team Asobi wasn't killed as collateral.
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A glimpse of FNAF: Security Breach.https://www.steelwoolstudios.com/
This is essentially FNAF6 right?
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so will Asobi even work on home console games or will they focus mainly on VR? (Astro Bot, VR 2)
Trailer looks great though, especially as someone who's never played a FNAF game before.
I don't think I'd ever be able to play it myself though... haha
With how the Astrobot pack-in is being received, they'll most likely do a fuller game of non-VR Astro and do a VR game as well. Which probably would have been about the production of the Studio as it was before, honestly.
If they are going to get any meaningful support from SIE due to this "restructuring", no reason whatsoever why they shouldn't be able to do both. Their resources will be theirs only.
Returnal is really looking good.
I hope those FP parts happen a bit. Looked gorgeous!
Also- Yuffie in FFVIIR:I was a cool surprise. I wonder if the guy is a model/animation template for Cid eventually? 😅
I hope those FP parts happen a bit. Looked gorgeous!
Also- Yuffie in FFVIIR:I was a cool surprise. I wonder if the guy is a model/animation template for Cid eventually? 😅
I would have like that also but it did not seem to have work out .
I am hoping the team can do a SSM .
They had a project cancel and lost a good amount of people and now look at them trying again .
I hope with time that Asobi Team can do they same but time will tell.
People are not paying attention but ssm, guerrilla and naughty dog are all with almost 500 staff each and we know ssm is moving to 2 teams and probably guerrilla has two teams too.
Oh yeah I want to apologize to the writer at Bloomberg, I made jokes, I laughed at their articles but they were spouting truths from day one.
They will remain a small team. With the announcement of PSVR2 yesterday, you can pretty much guess that their next game will be an Astro VR game for PSVR2.
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i really hope that.
Don't want to see them become the next London Studio (no offense, but i can't be excited about games that i cannot play unless buying an extra device, no matter how good they are)
Long term I hope Team Asobi's games sell well, the gradually grow again and continue to produce games and then eventually we have a big Japanese studio again that could do multiple projects or at least two at a time but this time with profits.
I hope Team Asobi never dies, they can one day carry the mantel of Japan Studio I.Ps and revive them again.
Technically it's the 8th main game. There's been a few side games and spinoffs too.
Yes and you can check their linkedins.
And remember not all staff are on linkedin.
Good, this should stick in the button of this page next time WE bring something here, so that WE dont get attacked when we dont bring good news.
We told you, and by you, everybody in this thread, this news months ago.
No.
Guerrilla Games' goal is 400.
SSM had ~180 for God of War. They do not have 500 devs now.
Yup you were right, I apologize to all of those that believed in the Bloomberg stuff.
I was trying to snuff it down with baseless hope, I am sorry.
I'm choosing to go against the grain and view this situation with a silver lining.
I don't think this is necessarily bad. The costs of operating in Tokyo must be astronomical. Hopefully Sony is retaining the majority, if not all of their Sony Japan Studios employees. And then hopefully this reorganization allows for better work/life balancing for the employees in turn.
Additionally, centering the majority of their team around Team Asobi is a good thing. Astrobot can be, should be, a global mega hit. Eventually the studio can grow organically (I know we all hate this, but its a real thing), and maybe produce some passion projects outside of the Astro IP at some point this generation.
Didn't know that, thanks! This is the first new game in quite a few years right? Feels like I hadn't heard much about the series since 2015/16.
It is not a bad decision, is a smart one actualy.
They are focusing their resources in the IP that can bring them the most sucess in the long run.
Oh come on. There's a difference between this and the ridiculous overreactions that go on in this thread. Remember the Bend nonsense when people were worried they would fold because a couple of team members left? The freaking out over every acquisition rumor no matter how nonsensical? The complete meltdown over years-old PC ports? Don't use this one example as a reason to justify all the nonsense that goes on in this thread all.the.time. People should have accepted that Bloomberg generally has good sources, but a lot of the time they have good reason to roll their eyes and feel exhausted by the constant doom posting.
Even this isn't the end of the world. The Studio was in rough shape long before Jim Ryan took over, and has basically been an Astrobot and external studio since 2018. Not a ton has changed, this is just a formal bow to wrap up the bad news.
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another Astro VR Game is a given, but hopefully they 'can' get big enough to work on both VR and Console Games.
hopefully...can...es tut weh
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