Loud decision by PlayStation executives: Sony downsizes its iconic Japanese studio SIE Japan Studio – media

Company Sony Interactive Entertainment curtails the development of original games for consoles Playstation in his oldest studio SIE Japan Studiolocated in Japan. This is reported by the publication with reference to its own sources. VGC

The iconic team that has created in-house and produced in partnership with third-party developers dozens of games for Playstation, Playstation 2, PlayStation Portable, Playstation 3, Playstation vita and Playstation 4, among which Ape escape, Bloodborne, Demon’s Souls, Dark cloud, Gravity rush, Siren, Shadow of the colossus and The legend of dragoon, has already lost most of its employees, the material says. Their contacts have not been renewed before the start of the next fiscal year (starts April 1, 2023)

The work was saved only by the people responsible for the localization of games into Japanese, as well as specialists from the group ASOBIknown for creating Astro Bot… They will continue to operate as a separate small studio within the Japanese branch of Sony.

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