• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Sony really doesn’t get it. Their leadership has seemed poor for a while now, I’m still annoyed they closed their Japan studio

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      4 months ago

      Out of curiosity, why are you annoyed at them closing their Japan studio? They have a ton of game credits, but were mostly a support studio. Like, technically they have credits on Bloodborne but I think everyone pretty much agrees that’s a FromSoft game.

      The only recent original games from them I see is Knack and Knack 2. Personally I thought they were pretty decent and are better than just a meme game, but at the same time they weren’t exactly successful hits either. Is there some hit game or series I’m missing here?

      And what was left of them was just merged into Team Asobi. Which I find kind of funny because Asobi was originally a team from Japan Studio that was split off.

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        4 months ago

        Japan Studio was one of those developers that were allowed to experiment and take risks with smaller/cheaper titles for the PlayStation platform. Sony seems to be aiming at only making recognizable franchises and safe bets, kind of like how Disney is still leaning hard on Star Wars and Marvel to keep making money. This is a terrible move as they’re no longer even trying to compete with the creativity and smaller budget of indie developers.

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        4 months ago

        They created a lot of novel and inventive games. Shadow of the Colossus is definitely their magnum opus but it’s the small weird games they were notable for that I feel Sony is missing at this point. Astrobot getting a full game is encouraging but I think Sony needs to further step back from their carousel of third person action games.

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          4 months ago

          They didn’t create Shadow of the Colossus. They were a support studio for Team Ico.

          Same thing for almost all of their games. The Astro series is from Team Asobi. Gravity Rush was from Team Silent/Team Gravity/Project Siren (that studio kept changing its name). Parappa the Rapper was NanaOn-Sha. Death Stranding was Kojima Productions. Patappn was from Pyramid.

          LocoRoco was an original, but that series hasn’t been touched since 2008. I doubt many of the original devs were even still there by 2021. Ape Escape and Legend of Dragon are similar.

          Japan Studio has too many games to check them all, but all the ones that I recognize as good and memorable games are from other studios.

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            4 months ago

            They were all part of Japan studio though, at least they left together to create bokeh studio.

            That’s like saying that Square Enix Business Division 3 isn’t Square Enix, but you would never deny they made kingdom hearts, so weird seeing someone going to bat for Jim Ryan.