Sony Interactive Japan Studio (SIE Japan Studio), established in 1993, is Sony’s first established and oldest game studio. It has created a variety of unique artistic game works, such as “ICO”, “Wanda and the Colossus”, “Dead Soul”, “Lokrok”, “Catch the Monkey” and “Wonderful World of Gravity” , It can be said that there is no one before and no one in the future. It’s a pity that the PlayStation Studio executives, who only have AAA masterpieces and social justice in their minds, seem to be insignificant. As early as February this year, they cut their studios significantly and removed them from the list of their own studios on July 5th. In other words In other words, this studio is definitely “disappeared.”
Instead, it was Team Astro, which used to be a group of this studio and created PS4 VR as a demo special game “Astro Bot Rescue Mission” and PS5 as a demo special game “Astro’s Playroom” Team Astro, and PlayStation Studios The person in charge Hermen Hulst said that the studio is making an “all age-oriented” game. Judging from the past works of this studio are SONY demonstrating new technology games, perhaps this new work will follow the same context.
However, the unique creativity of this studio is still not dead in the game industry. For example, Keiichiro Toyama, the game producer who has produced “Silence Hill”, “Dead Soul” and “Wonderful World of Gravity” in September 2020 After being expelled from the Japanese entertainment studio, he established his own studio Bokeh Game Studio and announced that he was working on a new horror game. And the former Team ICO leader Ueda Fumito, who created “ICO”, “Wanda and the Colossus”, and “Cannibal Giant Eagle TRICO”, also announced as early as 2020 that he will reach a cooperation with Epic Game, which will be unique Art aesthetics brings more people.
But the real pity of this news is that familiar characters like Bobo Monkey, Knack, LocoRoco and Patapon have no future at all. Although they are not as well-known in the world as the characters like Mario and Link next door to Nintendo, their seniority is also poor. For decades. However, due to the hot sales of PS2, PSP and other game consoles, these characters have more or less a place in our gaming career. I would like to mourn these characters who accompanied me in my childhood, and hope to see you again one day.
Source: https://www.vg247.com/2021/07/05/sony-japan-studio-playstation-removed/
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