Opinion: Playstation Will Miss Sales Targets for 2024

Yurinka

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Japan Studio is dead and buried, will never come back to save PS for you.
Nah, Team Asobi continues as their internal development team and XDEV Japan continues as their 2nd party publishing and support team for Asian team.

Even if no longer using the Japan Studio brand, they both continue at the SIE Japan HQ building doing the same job that they did before.

They're the ones who shipped Death Stranding Director's Cut, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, and who will ship Astro Bot, Lost Soul Aside, Convallaria, Death Stranding 2 or Physint.
 
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Nah, Team Asobi continues as their internal development team and XDEV Japan continues as their 2nd party publishing and support team for Asian team.

Even if no longer using the Japan Studio brand, they both continue at the SIE Japan HQ building doing the same job that they did before.

They're the ones who shipped Death Stranding Director's Cut, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, and who will ship Astro Bot, Lost Soul Aside, Convallaria, Death Stranding 2 or Physint.

It's not the same without all the Japan Studio Games like ICO,SOTC,Ape Escape,Gravity Rush,Locoroco,Patapon and Siren.

Astro Bot is Nice and all but it took them 4 years just to get it ready
 

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It's not the same without all the Japan Studio Games like ICO,SOTC,Ape Escape,Gravity Rush,Locoroco,Patapon and Siren.

Astro Bot is Nice and all but it took them 4 years just to get it ready
There are many people in Team Asobi and XDEV Japan who worked in these games you mentioned.

They'll make sequels or similar ones if they want and consider it's worth it. But I assume they'll focus now in games with a bigger global appeal, as seems to be the case of Astro Bot or Death Stranding 2.
 

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It's not the same without all the Japan Studio Games like ICO,SOTC,Ape Escape,Gravity Rush,Locoroco,Patapon and Siren.

Astro Bot is Nice and all but it took them 4 years just to get it ready
Astro was made in 3 years. The rest of PS studios can only dream of getting their games out that quick.
 
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