Sony Japan Studio to close in 2018

>Sony is closing its internal Japan Studio, best known as the developer of the Ape Escape, Siren, LocoRoco and Gravity Rush franchises. The studio was formerly known as Exact, and has been in operation for 24 years.

>"Within [Sony Interactive Entertainment] Worldwide Studios, we have a regular process of review in order to consider projects coming to completion and the deployment of resources," Sony said in a statement sent to Gamespot. "In such a competitive landscape this enables us to continue to create and produce high-quality, innovative and commercially viable projects. Having reviewed and assessed all current projects and plans for the short and medium term, we have decided that in order to deliver on our strategic objectives, it is necessary to make some changes to the worldwide studio structure. As a result, it has been decided that Japan Studio will close, effective as of January 1, 2018.".

gamespot.com/articles/sony-japan-studio-to-close-doors/1100-6433218/

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>closing one of their last good first party studios
Defend this, Sonyfriends

no puppeteer sequel sucks

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Good riddance, world has enough weeb shit.

>movee base of operations to america
>closed down last internal studio

Can we stop calling sony a japanese company now?

wasnt this bloodborne's publisher?

Nice link, friendo.

>it's a fake article thread
OP gargles semen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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Actually had me going for a second, but it's fake
Fuck you OP

i shit my pants, go fuck yourself, i was about to destroy my "bloodborne-machine"

This legit made me upset. Fuck you OP.

>this mad at a fake article
Ayyyy

How will Spikat ever recover?

OP, you honestly deserve to be punched in the mouth

rip bloodborne

Anyone else legitimately panic for a second?

Imagine what the PS4's library would look like if Japan Studio got funding instead of this garbage

JAPANStudio was never a studio, it was contractor and mediator between Sony japan corporate entity and actual studio who made the game in question -- FROM, Team Ico or whatever

Why would you go through the trouble of making this shit up you faggot

>Starter pack memes
>Japan Studio has put out like 5 games in the last year

You have to go back

NO I FUCKING LOVE GRAVITY RUSH.

>Jap shit
>good
Fuck off commie bitch, Japs can't survive in a competitive environment.

I think he means what if Japan Studio got handed budgets of about more than $15 and some McDonald's coupons for internal projects. A nice concept, but hardly economically viable, sadly.

which ones?

Yeah the cinematic games aren't conducive to high replay value. Too much hand holding.

Friendly reminder that if its to do with Japan and the article isn't from gematsu assume its bait.

Tokyo Jungle sequel, please.

playstationlifestyle.net/2017/07/03/sony-japan-studio-new-titles-teased/

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That's not their job, they're supposed to put out several mid tier games a year instead of 1 every 3 or 4 years. That's up to Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Guerrilla Games etc
The Last Guardian, Gravity Rush 2, No Heroes Allowed VR, Everybody's Golf and Knack 2

youtube.com/watch?v=s9VDYqq9YFw

does it mean we won't get Gravity Rush for PC?

Nintendominatiom

FAKE NEWSSSSSSSS

No Heroes Allowed VR and Everybody's Golf were not actually developed by Japan Studio

and Knack 2 is westernized trash

Fuck you OP, that would have destroy sony.

>It's another Sup Forums doesn't click the link in the OP and/or google to see if this is real or not episode

But OP, your link goes to a different story from 2015?! Did you have a stroke while making this thread? Or are you just low on semen?
EVERYONE! GIVE OP YOUR SEMEN!!!

Do this increases the likelyhood of those games being ported to dream?

Knew it was fake the moment I clicked the thumbnail. Japan Studio is Sony's golden child, OP. They'll let all their western studios die before ever letting Japan Studio go under.

Besides Shat I & II, they put out some pretty good shit.

Oh shit bros, looks like we're not getting Bloodborne II.

We only need Naughty God and Guerrilla these days anyway.

Gotta ask OP, out of all the studios Sony owns, why Japan Studio? I wouldn't imagine anyone here in this shit hole would even recognize they're owned by Sony, or at least think that Naughty Dog is valued greater. Good to see you know your shit, you raging, semen slurping faggot. If you ever pull a stunt like this again I'll break both your legs.

>best known as the developer of the Ape Escape, Siren, LocoRoco and Gravity Rush franchises
And nothing of value was lost

So who's going to make Sony games then? Wasn't this the last studio making games for Sony?

Fuck this gay Earth.

Take Guerrilla, nobody cares for their awful IP's anyhow. Just give me back Zipper Interactive or something. Have them by Ready at Dawn, or Bluepoint games.

Scared the shit out of me, op. They're my favorite devs.

Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, SuckerPunch, From, you name it.

Now they will open high quality japanese studios instead of having a single-A tier studio that honestly doesn't even know how to create software that runs properly on the system they are making it for.
No Japan Studio produced game is ambitious AND runs properly.

Nice link faggot.

>no mention of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, or The Last Guardian in that list
You just know it

Fake news.
Delet this thread

GOT EEEEEEEM

This delusional "cinematic is bad" low IQ mindset.
Cinematic literally means "good looking".
Tell me what is so wrong about these games.

Sony currently has 16 active studios, and 8 that are defunct.

>Nobody cares about Guerrilla
>Wants Zipper back

So they actually have more studios than everyone else.

fucking retarded frog poster

You nigger, I thought that was real.

Name me one western game with a realistic art style that doesn't look like uncanny valley.

I'll wait.

Always enjoyed the "business words" for firing people or cut cost, good stuff OP.