New Report Reveals Sony's Focus On AAA PS5 Wide Appealing Games Means Bad News For Japan Studio

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Today we are going over a new report that has revealed some bad news for Sony’s Japan studio. The studio is not being shuttered but is being downsized significantly and most of its developer have been let go. This started as a rumor but was confirmed by Sony shortly after. It seems that Sony’s intense focus on massive AAA wide appealing PS5 exclusives is cited as the main reason for this. The good news is team ASOBI remains intact and it sounds like they are being tasked with making anew ASTRO bot title.

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50 thoughts on “New Report Reveals Sony's Focus On AAA PS5 Wide Appealing Games Means Bad News For Japan Studio”

  1. Overall it's disappointing news. There are a few good things we can take form it such as confirmation team ASOBI is working on another big AstroBot title and Sony's laser focus on the big AAA games that we all love. It really is sad that it has to come at the cost of this development team though. Their games may not have had wide appeal or even sold very well but I feel for the developers who were let go and those who really did love their games. Let me know what you think about this down below.

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  3. What is everyone talking about? Japan studios is now Team Asobi and the new company will be reorganised and come into play on April 1st, so can we all stop crying now. Also the ips will be distributed through playstation studios, which is how sony want to represent themselves, not as separate bussiness entities, ie sony japan, sony america. This also allows other directors to form new separate teams and create more games of which will probably be purchased up as sony sees fit

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  7. Well , with their alliance with kadokawa and other developer (sony japan xdev) as well.. this is inevitable , Because, from references I read japan studio has 500-800 employeers already, and maybe from jim ryan's and other higher up's (maybe hermen hulst as well)prespective it need to be cut down for economic and bussiness purposes…the wrong things are there are many talents there (such as keiichiro toyama and masaki yamagiwa) that should be held and protected.. again this is inevitable and sad

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  8. At least The Astro bot team is still there! Gravity Rush 1 and 2 where absolutely amazing, and so was The Last Guardian! I hope this at least means Sony will make sure we get more Resident Evil and Monster Hunter Exclusives in the future to make up for the lack of stuff like this. Anyway as long as God of War and Horizon are amazing on the PS5 I will still be good!

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  10. I always liked how sony would make more niche games that gave their exclusives some variety and honestly some Japanese flavour games….are they just going to make mainstream stuff now and just have indies do cool stuff…

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  17. Yeah, that's it.
    Sony is just becoming worse and worse each day.
    Stupid decisions left and right. We all should have known the moment they moved HQ to California.
    USA yet again ruining gaming for everyone. Why am I not surprised…

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  26. They should piss of these idiots Sony Playstation is Japanese it will always remain Japanese it's in the Playstation how could we be seeing less of Japan studio that is the the soul spirit and truth of want Playstation is but the truth of Sony Playstation is they been doing this since day one since the PS1 through all there generation s of Sony Playstation I no as a true Playstation loyal gamer since the PS1 console n no other console Playstation only for life Sony Playstation always make to different versions of exclusive s U got your triple AAA exclusive s n the Japanese exclusive s only make for Japan only with silent Hill yeah been a rumour for some time now since before hideo kojima left Konami it was in the work s since the PS4 demo if U got the PS4 console at lunch U will no want I am talking about it was a demo or beta U could download it for free it was a huged deal on the PS4 alot of people got the PS4 at lunch because of silent Hill Konami back in the golden age of the 80s n 90s they made some of the timeless games ever Konami I no I was born in the 80s I lived it they started to go down hill but want they did to hideo kojima that's we're silent Hill stopped n focus on with Sony death stranding Playstation is Japanese Always as long as Japan studio's is still around they will always be true 1st to Japan 1st before the world look at Yakuza ishin a 2014 release but only for Japan audience only because they are true 1st to there people Japan n foreign world is still waiting for a English subtitle since still not one make up a Japanese account when U sign up to Playstation network on your console have a English account n a Japanese account U will see the difference Japanese exclusive s are everywhere on the Japanese account only I no I done this since the ps 1 PS2 n PS3 now PS4 now ps5 try it the true Playstation gamers no this

    but for the ones are new to Playstation try it back in the Day in the 80s or 90s this wasn't possible unless you no the right connection s not like now since the internet was made it's so much easier for things n some thing s until this day still remains the same with Japanese exclusive s games only n the triple AAA games Japan studio's had made some of the time less games ever for Japan Sony Playstation that's All that matters Sony Playstation

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  27. It’s so stupid what Sony is doing. Look, I love the western exclusives like GoW, Spider-Man, TloU, but what has truly kept me invested with Sony all this time has been the Japanese games exclusive on PlayStation. Like I said, I love a lot of the western SIE games that have come out for PS4. But my favorite PS4 exclusive without a shadow of a doubt was Persona 5. I’m so disappointed in Sony for doing Japanese gamers and Japanese Devs like this. This is why I recently bought a Nintendo Switch as my secondary console.

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  29. IV FELT THIS FOR A LONG TIME THE MAIN FOCUS LAST GEN WAS THE CONSTANT AAA CHANTING AND PUSH FROM MAINLY WESTERN DEVELOPER'S AND EVEN THOUGH I REALLY ENJOYED 90% OF THEM THEY ALL PLAYED VERY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER AND HAD SIMILAR PACING BUT BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS OF THIS SONY IS TURNING THERE BACK ON JAPAN WHICH TO ME IS A BAD IDEA JIST CHASING THE EXTRA $, OVER THE YEARS WEVE HAD SO MUCH DIFFERENT VARIETY OF GAMES JUST CHECK WHAT THEY DID ON THE PS2 GENERATION PS4 GEN HAD SO KANY REMAKES FROM THAT SYSTEM.

    BUT IT JUST SHOWS YOU THESE COMPANYS DONT CARE ABOUT ITS FAN BASE JUST ALL ABOUT THE MONEY AND BECAUSE WE ALL BUY INTO THE AAA HYPE SONY KNOWS IF THEY DO RIGHT OR WRONG PEOPLE WILL STILL STICK BY THEM AND SPEND THERE MONEY WITH SONY

    ALL THESE DECISIONS MAY MAKE SONY MORE MONEY AND POSSIBLY BRING US MORE GAMES WHICH COULD BE GOOD OR AMAZING BUT IT LOSES ITS IDENTITY IN THE PROCESS

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  31. Dude , i hope you get to read this message: please STOP putting so much advertisements in the middle of your videos . I really like your content and also like to support you but being interrupted 5 times in the middle of every video of yours is not FUN at all .
    So you’re forcing your audience to use an Adblock on your channel wich will not be profitable for you .

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  35. A good move could be to acquire Bluepoint (if they haven't already). Because Bluepoint & Japan Studio just did the Demon's Souls remake (with BluePoint leading it). And Demon's Souls was originally (back in 09) a "FromSoftware" & Japan Studio game (with From leading it). Bluepoint could definitely make a Bloodborne 2 game. They also made these Shadow of Colossus remake as well. Japan played a back up studio to those games since day one. Not to down play them as if they're not needed or not worth having. They could have pushed their own games. They could have and should have at least tried to do one or two big Triple A games even if were on the lines of a Ghosts of Tsushima or Nioh or something like that to retain that Japan oriented essence. But they chose not to. They could released their indie and AA style games between their AAA drops. But as far as the games that they have been in a pai of as far as development goes. Bluepoint could definitely take up three mantle there.

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  36. So what has Sony Japan produced within the last 10 years that is a massive AAA success? They seem to outsource everything to other studios. No one at Sony Japan is really undertaking any sort of lead on pushing creative new franchises (RPGs????). Ghost of Tsushima should have been a AAA Sony Japan studio production but even that is something they're not interested in creating. They just want to create these smaller indie games with cute creatures. I would absolutely do what Sony is doing and down size that expense and make Japan studio into what they've been hitting at wanting to be for the last 10 years and that's a small indie production house.

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  37. Man, lighten up. “Like my video because it’s easier to not like it” it’s easier to not watch or listen to this and like a better video at that point. You have to give me a reason to like it I’m not gonna listen to that every video and feel me white guilt say “we owe this man one for being boring” 😂 I’m just saying man, don’t you think if you gave me what I wanted I’d help you out? No more low vibes man. Don’t scream, but give A more loose vibe with just for the intro and I’ll like them all and I’ll be watching and trying not to skip through. You sound almost unenthusiastic about making videos and no disrespect I’m just tryna help us both out, dude

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  38. Always saw Japan Studio as a support team. Their IPs were really meh, but they seemed to help other dev companies incredibly well to assimilate into the PS system. Maybe PS feels they can consolidate the studio partnerships they already have matured and put less emphasis on supporting smaller devs who might need the support. I feel dubious about the reporting suggesting this is because PS wants less emphasis on Japan market and whatnot. Seems like a big jump to conclusions that’s not really supported. Sad to see this anyways.

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  40. Sony needs to understand that mainstream fans are not real fans and they won't support you long term they just buy what is hot at the moment. When Nintendo wii came out a lot of mainstream gamers brought it but then the Wii u came out and they did not buy it only the hardcore fans. The moral of the story dont forget your hardcore fans they are the ones who will always support you.

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  42. MBG missed the 1 year old memo. Konami has officially said there is no new Silent Hill game. These fanboys are bordering on delusional. He's literally believing a Dusk Golem lie and doesn't even realize it. By the way, 100% of the SH rumors have been completely wrong.

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