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Sony Interactive Entertainment JAPAN Studio establishes External Development Department

Sony Interactive Entertainment JAPAN Studio has established an External Development Department and made various organizational changes to inaugurate the new fiscal year, Sony Interactive Entertainm…

www.gematsu.com

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

おめでとう、そに-ちやん！

 

[DynamiteCop!]

The hell does this mean? A department for PC ports?

 

[Lukin1978]

Ps5 cancelled Sony going 3rd party confirmed

 

[Barakov]

Huh. I wonder if it's to oversee projects from independent developers like Media Vision?

Spoiler

New Wild Arms?! It's a stretch, I know....

 

[Perrott]

The hell does this mean? A department for PC ports?

It means that the internal teams at Japan Studio (Toyama, Kouno, Iljima...) will not have to share resources and staff with other projects that are collaborations with third party studios (like Bloodborne for instance).

Now both the Internal and External Development Departments will have their own dedicated staff.

Huh. I wonder if it's to oversee projects from independent developers like Media Vision?

Spoiler

New Wild Arms?! It's a stretch, I know....

Well, over the last year there has been rumors about a new Wild Arms game in development according to DasVergeben and we know that MediaVision has been working for more than two years now on a PlayStation exclusive RPG.

 

[Tarkus98]

Would love to see a new WildArms come out.
Should be interesting to see the benefits play out from this new external branch.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

I only played the original Wild Arms. It was pretty good.