What! I think you are confused, it was the other guy making fake outrage complaining about a western guy heading up Japan Studio, are you reading posts correctly?
Great news! They are really talented. Can't wait for the next game they make, better be Astro Bot!
Not sure what ip that might be? hope it's a big budget astro game
Japan Studio was a bigger group of various teams. They fired all of the other teams, and the XDEV team, and focused just on Team Asobi.Their focus was gutting the Japanese team and re-hiring in other regions that combine into a Team Asobi. The Japanese team wasnt cutting it.
Japan Studio was a bigger group of various teams. They fired all of the other teams, and the XDEV team, and focused just on Team Asobi.
Sony did the same thing to London Studio back in 2016.
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Sony did the same thing to San Diego Studio back in 2016.
Sony lays off employees at San Diego studio
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There had been other teams at San Diego, and XDEV stuff like David Jaffe's game Drawn to Death, etc.. but Sony laid them off and focused San Diego on just the MLB team. Now all of Sony's XDEV stuff in handled out of their Liverpool XDEV office, (formerly XDEV Europe), instead of having a separate XDEV team in Japan Studio (Bloodborne, etc).
Team Asobi are mostly Japanese, btw.
"Well, since we are a PlayStation game development studio located in the cool and vibrant Tokyo, the majority of the team are Japanese. We also have several members coming from various other countries: England, Germany, France, Scotland, Korea, Spain, and Colombia. It’s important for us to have this mixed background to help us create games that are universal."
Introducing Team Asobi, creators of the Astro Bot series
Read a note from the team behind PS5 charmer Astro’s Playroomblog.playstation.com
Japan Studio are closed Bo, they're no more. Its just Team Asobi now.Hope they merge both Japan Studio and them under one, and make them a big studio making more than 1 project at a time!
ExactlyInteresting that this thread can't get past the first page. But when Studio Japan was closed, 1.5 million people had something to say.
Cool beans to insult someone with a different take than you. Is this your default action when you're simping for Sony?The good part is you can do the same yourself. I'm sure in preparation for this hot take you may have practiced what you're preaching?
As far as this news goes, good. They have something with Astrobot which should be expanded upon.
Are you sure we're looking at the same company? Team Asobi's 4 games: The Playroom, The Playroom VR, Astro Bot, Astro's Playroom. Japan Studios been around for 20 some odd years. They're the one who did Bloodborn, Last Guardian, Shadow of Colossus (remake), Demon's Souls (PS5).They were the only ones making good games.
They shut them down? Looks like they're still open!
Japan studio do alot of colabs, none of the games you mentioned was done by Japan Studio alone.Cool beans to insult someone with a different take than you. Is this your default action when you're simping for Sony?
Are you sure we're looking at the same company? Team Asobi's 4 games: The Playroom, The Playroom VR, Astro Bot, Astro's Playroom. Japan Studios been around for 20 some odd years. They're the one who did Bloodborn, Last Guardian, Shadow of Colossus (remake), Demon's Souls (PS5).
"Astro will be back with news soon." - Nicolas Doucet (Team Asobi) back in November 2020.
Unleash the power of the DualSense wireless controller with Astro’s Playroom
Team Asobi’s platformer comes pre-installed on every PS5 and is packed full of PlayStation Easter eggs.blog.playstation.com
Asobi made Astro Bot Rescue Mission in 18 months with like 25 people.
They can definitely make another Astro Bot game for PSVR2, hopefully at launch in 2022.
Bloodborne was From Soft. SOTC remake was Bluepoint as was Demons Souls. Outside of Last Guardian what game have they made in house on PS4 not including Asobi games?Cool beans to insult someone with a different take than you. Is this your default action when you're simping for Sony?
Are you sure we're looking at the same company? Team Asobi's 4 games: The Playroom, The Playroom VR, Astro Bot, Astro's Playroom. Japan Studios been around for 20 some odd years. They're the one who did Bloodborn, Last Guardian, Shadow of Colossus (remake), Demon's Souls (PS5).
enough with the japan studio whining, they didnt release any good games for the past few years.Yeah, Sony can go fuck themselves. They shut down Japan Studios for this shit.
i hope it's a big budget regular game not vr
Yes old heads were let go. The small team Asobi, dropped two hits in a row. They gave the head of the team the keys to rebuild the the japan studio. Which seems they are gonna triple down on platformers/kid games. I see Ape Escape coming back. Shifting LittleBIGPlanet to them.Am I the only one who realized Sony laid off a ton of people from the original studio this was spun from and now suddenly wants to expand?
You cant be dropping commercial duds back to back to back. Their biggest failure was letting Dark Souls happen. And wasting 10 years on The Last Guardian.Yeah, Sony can go fuck themselves. They shut down Japan Studios for this shit.
Japan Studio had mostly two parts: an internal game development part with some teams and a Japanese 2nd party management part.I thought this was later proven false because some of the top talent communicated they were no longer working for Sony?
Far from it. I brought the same energy as you did. I'm wondering what and why it's ok to say what you said and be vihamemtly vulgar over basically nothing.Cool beans to insult someone with a different take than you. Is this your default action when you're simping for Sony?
Sony shut down a studio that couldn’t give us a samurai game that was eventually made by American’s that was loved and sold more in their home country than anything from Japan studio in two generations.Yeah, Sony can go fuck themselves. They shut down Japan Studios for this shit.
Introducing Team Asobi, creators of the Astro Bot series
Read a note from the team behind PS5 charmer Astro’s Playroomblog.playstation.com
The level of quality on display is both Astro Bot games really comes close to Nintendo R&D. Great stylized graphics, silky smooth animation and framerate and the tightest and most precise controls on a PlayStation platformer ever. And they achieved this with a small team and limited funding. I can only imagine what those guys can achieve with a bigger team and budget.That’s like an ant against a tiger considering the scale of the two, but it’s certainly a high end goal they should aim for
Yeah but Nintendo don’t just make Mario. They make dozens of other games tooThe level of quality on display is both Astro Bot games really comes close to Nintendo R&D. Great stylized graphics, silky smooth animation and framerate and the tightest and most precise controls on a PlayStation platformer ever. And they achieved this with a small team and limited funding. I can only imagine what those guys can achieve with a bigger team and budget.
That's generally the way a corporation has to operate when a large department is not working out anymore. Just moving the people around preserves the culture that was part of the problem, even if they're good people that you'd hate to lose. Cutting to just the successful elements allows them to set a new path forward (so long as you understand why they were successful) and then you can build anew. If you're going to make a change, do what has to be done and make a change.Am I the only one who realized Sony laid off a ton of people from the original studio this was spun from and now suddenly wants to expand?
Since when was western a race? I'm sure that the guy is very skilled as I liked the games made under his leadership but it is strange and unusual that a non-Japanese guy is the head of a Japanese studio. Especially when the studio is owned by a company that was supposedly having a power struggle between the western and Japanese divisions.You mean they hired based on skill and suitability for the job not race. I think you are on the wrong forum with that BS.
Add to that the fact the previous person 'in charge of the studio' was a 'western guy' Allan Becker.
Astro Boy doesn't work outside VR and even then it's overrated because most VR games in comparison are shallow and mechanically junk.They probably realised Astro is their Mario and want to keep building and expanding.
If they do it right, they'll have a killer Mascot who can be a household name.
No. Closed.Does Japan studio still exist?
It sounds like they spun out?
Semantics, this IS Japan Studio. It's their internal team that was most productive just rebranded.No. Closed.
Yeah, but I was trying to answer his question. Technically Japan Studio does not exist anymore.Semantics, this IS Japan Studio. It's their internal team that was most productive just rebranded.
Always good to see when talent is rewarded. Asobi Team is one of the most talented small studios Sony owns and making it grow is a no brainer.
Hope they next full game is not VR only though.
i hope it's a big budget regular game not vr
So the PS5 game didn't work?Astro Boy doesn't work outside VR and even then it's overrated because most VR games in comparison are shallow and mechanically junk.
Are you really going to pretend that's an actual entry like Astro bot? Seriously?So the PS5 game didn't work?