Puppeteer Director Gavin Moore Has Left Sony Japan Studio After 24 Years at Sony

The wave of departures affecting Sony Japan Studio is continuing, and today Gavin Moore announced that he has left the team on Twitter.

[IMissJimRyan]

It's a shame what Sony is doing with Japan studios. Jim Ryan only thinks in short term money.

[robtion]

Sorry for my ignorance but what is with the mass exodus from Japan studios? Seems like everyone is leaving in the past month or two?

[DarXyde]

My guess?

Jim Ryan doesn't think their projects are profitable and he's stripping the charm out of their projects and not allowing for creative freedom and the devs just aren't with that.

I'm genuinely worried about the impact of Ryan at the helm. Maybe it's not him and it's other things... But I simply do not believe these departures are by chance. Ryan clearly has a different vision for PlayStation and the same studio that puts out the most charming and creative games at PlayStation is seeing an exodus. This studio is also not known for bringing in strong sales, unfortunately. Sadly, I think that is the calculation Ryan is making and he's cracking down on projects that may have a ton of soul and creativity and fun, if they don't look like they have the mass appeal of a game like, say, Uncharted or God of War.

Genuinely upsetting. Japan studio was, quite literally, my favorite Playstation studio. Their games are so unique and their team has made some of the simplest yet brilliant experiences in my gaming life. It sounds hyperbolic, but it's sincerely heartbreaking to think about this happening. That said, if these devs all stay together and find their footing as an independent studio, I would gladly throw money at their projects.

[RememberThe357]

I thought I read Sony was closing Japan Studio.

[Sonic-and-Crash]

you know exactly what is happening inside Japan Studio ? ...and you r sorry ? .....from their works these guys had minimum success/creativity ...Puppeteer is like an uncosistent paper mario game on a damn PS3 ..they just wasting its power

.i say it is for the better as AstroBot is looking exactly what Playstation needed .....they may even hiring more talented guys to work and just firing the old horses

[scofios]

Sony needs tot deal with Jim Ryan ASAP before it's to late .

[RazzerRedux]

Certainly no reason for such a talented guy to hang around a dead studio. Great job, Sony.

[Jericho1337]

The guy is out of work during a global pandemic. While I’m sure he’ll be ok given his vast experience, others won’t be so lucky. Would hardly call that a ‘great job’.

[RazzerRedux]

Seriously? That was clearly sarcasm.

[Jericho1337]

Course it was mate.

[RazzerRedux]

Somehow you think I'm praising Sony because a "talented guy" is having to leave a "dead studio"? Are you really that thick-headed?

[BlackIceJoe]

Hopefully he will start up a new game studio, because the world needs more talented Japanese game studios.

[northpaws]

Puppeteer was awesome and very creative, hope there will be more games like that.

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Jim Ryan is going to slowly but surely destroy everything PlayStation has established so far.

[RememberThe357]

And he'll take your games catalog with him...

[Magog]

Crazy how many westerners were working at Sony "Japan"

[MightyHealthy]

Several more left than just this guy.
Ign wrote up an article

[gold_drake]

this aint something new. altough i do fi d it odd to let creative minds go.
but, we dont know whats going on at sony studios. they did say this will be happening.
we all forget that they're still a business. and im sure that he specifically, will be fine. puppeteer was amazing. such a talent never goes to waste. or rarely

[HeliosHex]

Great game puppeteer. Alot of people slept on that game.

[Redemption-64]

I really wish, some gamers would stop pretending to care of these studios now. No one is to blame but gamers, I keep seeing people list their games, yet very very few of us supported them when they were releasing games

Also why push the balme on Jim? Yes he is the one in charge, but this decision to close the studio had more than likely been under evaluation for quite some time now, long before Jim became head. Given games take years to make, I can assume they were give a chance or two, if not more to turn things around. I highly doubt Jim had much of a choice, especially if the studio has literally been losing money for years now.

[jznrpg]

The last article I saw of same guy leaving is Dev who worked on Demons Souls left studio. Same guy different game .