PlayStation has officially removed Japan Studio from its list of studios

The official site no longer lists Japan Studio among its teams. Japan Studio has been officially removed from Sony’s list of studios.

[Battlestar23]

They did this weeks ago several websites already reported on it. I guess it's just a slow news day huh?

[CaptainHenry916]

Yeah I was like this is old news lol. Who approved this article 🤔

[SullysCigar]

Lol the usual suspects...

[BlaqMagiq1]

It was already reported they were reorganized into Team Asobi. This article was unwarranted.

[NeoGamer232]

Not sure why this is big news anyhow.

Sony are always consistently releasing great games. Now, if they started to fall off consistent game releases, that would be a cause for concern. This is not a cause for concern since they have released Spider-man MM, Sackboy Adventures, Demon's Souls, Returnal, and Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart in the first 8 months of the new console!

[BlaqMagiq1]

Exactly. Just a news article reaching for clicks with something pseudo-negative.

[Outlawzz]

Didn't these guys make gravity rush ? Such a great game and concept imo. Not sure what other games they made tho

[Amplitude]

Yeah they had quite a ton but the last few years Sony seemed to treat them like D-list devs and cursed them to helping out with remasters, vr games, vita games and just... really nothing

They had Gravity Rush, Ape Escape, the Loco Roco and Patapon games, a ton of amazing psn gems on ps3... so much good stuff. Oh well :(

[CDbiggen]

And Freedom Wars for Vita, quality game.

[Magog]

The director of that game and the director of The Last Guardian left Sony before Japan Studio was shut down.

[Stanjara]

Shadow of Colossus rings a bell.

[masterfox]

Team Asobi

[specialguest]

From the article:
"Localisation and business staff remain in place and Team Asobi will continue as a standalone studio within Sony Japan.

Some Japan Studio staff have joined Team Asobi, while others have followed Silent Hill and Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama – who left Japan Studio last year – to his new studio Bokeh."

So basically the real talents left and formed Bokeh. Team Asobi is just a shell of a company

[ZwVw]

So definitely no Siren 4 now. With Japan Studio consisting of several ex Team Silent staff, makes you wonder why Sony never attempted to strike a deal with Konami to make another Silent Hill installment.

[Gamble20]

That’s been a rumor, that they were working on one. But whether the property truly has weight now I’m not sure.

[Monkeycan8]

Asobi is the New Japan Studio. If Siren 4 is being made its being done so under the Asobi Banner.

[Elda]

Knew this already. Now Team Asobi.

[specialguest]

Not the same company anymore. The Siren series, Silent Hill, and Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama left last year and formed a new studio called Bokeh. Fumito Ueda best known as lead designer of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian left Sony in 2011, but remained in contract to finish developing The Last Guardian up until 2015.

Many people here are mentioning the studio Team Asobi as though it's the spiritual successor of Studio Japan when it's really not. Without the lead designers that made those memorable games, the studio has nothing but a clean slate. You might as well call it a new studio with little to no relation to the dissolved one

[Elda]

If the now-defunct "Japan Studios" employees are working for Team Asobi then that's Sony's new Japan studio based in Tokyo.

[Imortus_san]

Only one among tall those Sony close in all it's years, nothing major, that what happens when the studio does not generate money.

[annoyedgamer]

Now remove Japan from the portfolio entirely. Complete the decent into darkness.

[JTShiny]

"People with knowledge of the matter told VGC that Sony Japan Studio simply hasn’t been profitable enough in recent years; the developer wanted to create games that appealed to the Japanese market first with hopes of having global appeal, while PlayStation wants the kind of global hits that its other first-party studios produce."

This sums it up pretty well.

[glenn1979]

garbage , also they treat Indies like crap

[cammers1995]

Japan studio was the best studio. RIP ape escape and siren.

[Retroman]

But why???? No more Knack???? Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!! we want Knack 3
Before you go.

[Stanjara]

What a sad move. My favorite games are from Japan Studio.

[jdoe]

good! Sony trimming down the fat. Great news!

[KINGS47]

Call me extreme but REMAKES are for newcomers to that specific story. If you played the Og than the remake is just a "different" experience. So no to fatigue because that's not even the point.

[anast]

This sucks. They made the best game of last generation. The only game that held my interest all the way to plat.

[Hawk198666]

This just proves how bad this site is

[frostypants]

Because they rolled into Team Asobi. Old news. Why wouldn't they de-list the old group? C'mon N4G. Be better.

[bujasem_89]

Heart palpitations

[drizzom]

There is now no studio that I am excited to see games from in Playstation anymore.

[Dixiedevil]

Great, ‘cause I officially got a Series X this weekend and my PS5 became an expensive PS4 that just plays all my old games. I’m done giving Sony any more money…and holy crap did I ever give them money last gen. 600 digital PS4 games. It’s all going to Microsoft this gen.