Several PlayStation executives visit Kojima - What might be happening?
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Sony already has a shit ton of Japanese exclusives (1st+2nd+3rd party exclusives including indies) plus basically every single multiplatform Japanese game. Most Japanese devs publish their games on PS, there are almost no big Japanse 3rd party exclusive for Switch or Xbox outside the timed console exclusive ones. Basically all of them support PS even with at least an exclusive in the last generation.
They will continue buying studios, but there is no particular reason of why they should be Japanese. If something they could acquire Capcom or Square to secure a big 1st party presence on certain strategically key genres where they aren't big to protect them from being acquired by someone like MS or Nintendo who could keep them away from PS, but that is all.
It's only the guy in charge of supporting 3RD PARTY INDIE games visiting an indie studio. It only means Sony may support their indie games, maximum to get an exclusive. Not to sign a 2nd party game or to buy them, which is something done by other people.See? I told you.
Unseen the first one in the list showing up, JPGames, Mutan Insight and Bokeh were studios I mentioned, that Sony will buy in 2023.
Sony via Yoshida may support these indie teams you mention giving them exposure or signing some kind of marketing deal or even a (console timed?) exclusive, they are a good fit to get the support from PlayStation Indies. But they are all somewhat unproven teams with leads who -with maybe the exception of Tabata, who made Crysis Core or FFXV that were successful but not top SE games and FFXV development was so troubled- even if known by some of us never released a big seller game.
These teams are different from cases like Kojipro or Haven, where they came from teams who made several top hits and in addition of the PR star a big chunk of the key staff of the new team was in the previous team.
I think all the teams you mention will get the support from Yoshida, and maximum some of them may or may not sign a 3rd party console timed exclusive, not more than that.
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With games like Ronin and FF16 Im pretty happy With what Playstation are doing For now.
But I miss games like LocorRoco, Tokyo Jungle, Shadow of the Collosus/Ico, Gravity Rush and a Miyazaki exclusive etc
That for me is missing atm plus a 1st party JRPG/WRPG, Shooter ( Deviation games covering it I Guess ).
Hopefully they are still in the plans to make these kinda of games, after Ronin was announced I have a bit more faith back in Playstation, but still want the smaller Japanese titles and a Miyazaki exclusive lol
At the end of 2023 you'll say they delayed it or changed their plans. Just like the other fake insiders claiming that 'this month Sony will announce the showcase'.
For small teams like Loco Roco or Tokyo Jungle it's better to give a timed console exclusive instead of a full exclusive, and to self publish than get the game published by Sony. Because they typically have little sales, and doing these things gives them way more revenue. And for Sony it's also better because being a huge corporation they will prefer bigger internal projects, and regarding small projects that almost don't give them sales it's cheaper for them support them via PS Indies only asking them timed console exclusives and allowing them to selfpublish the game. This investment is cheaper for Sony, so with the same amount of money that before they spent on a single 1st/2nd party small game they now can get multiple ones.
Regarding Shadow of the Colossus/Ico/TLG/Gravity Rush, part of the staff who made these games continues in Team Asobi.
Almost all JRPG are published on PS and many of them are even exclusive, while very little 3rd party ones are Switch exclusive and none of them are Xbox exclusives. Sony doesn't need 1st party JRPG because PS is already the platform with the biggest amount of JRPG games.
Regarding shooters Sony has Destiny 2, at least 2 new Bungie IPs to be released in a handful years, the Deviation game, the Firewalk game, and according to some rumors (which can be fake) both Guerrilla and Firesprite are working on shooters too.