Another Japanese veteran resigns from Sony – producer of Bloodborne and Tokyo Jungle Masaaki Yamagiva

Producer Bloodborne, Deracine and Tokyo jungle Masaaki Yamagiva will leave the team Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio at the end of February. He wrote about this in his Twitter, the portal reports Gematsu

“I am leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment at the end of this month. But I plan to continue to work hard on making games! Thank you all very much,” the developer said in a message.

Yamagiwa did not specify where he will now go, and did not name the reasons for parting with the platform holder.

Before Yamagiva of Sony quit another producer Bloodborne, Teruyuki Toriyamawho was also responsible for Demon’s Souls, Soul sacrifice and many more Japanese console exclusives Playstation

In turn, the creator Silent Hill, Gravity rush and Siren Keiichiro Toyama back in December, he parted ways with Sony and announced the opening of his own studio, which is already creating a new horror movie. Together with him left Sony Kazunobu Sato and Junya Okura

The latter explained in an interview with Famitsu that the structure of Sony’s internal studios has changed, as a result of which the company’s focus has shifted to producing large-scale titles, and there is less room for experimentation.

“I have been working with Toyama for many years, so I somehow share his position. After the internal structure [Sony] has undergone certain changes and the focus has shifted directly to the development of huge projects in its scale, it has become very difficult to experiment in the approach to creating new games. The same applies to the revision of any production moments, if the circumstances require it. “

In November, Bloomberg reported, citing its sources, that American PlayStation executives were losing interest in Japan., against the background of which the support teams of Japanese developers in the native region of the platform holder decreased by a whole third, and some of the employees SIE Japan Studio lost her job – contracts were not renewed on time.

Chapter PlayStation Jim Ryan categorically rejected statements about the loss of interest in Japan and cited high-profile contracts with Japanese developers, including Square enix from Final Fantasy XVIHe later promised PlayStation 5 owners a lot of Japanese games.

Reports of high-profile employees leaving SIE Japan Studio began to surface in December 2023.

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