Puppeteer's Gavin Moore Rounds Out Japan Studio Exodus As Team Disbands

The pupeteer was amazing.it remind me of sega genesis dynamite heady.a wonderful game from the 16 bit era.this game was so fun.wish it was remastered.speaking of remastered or remake sly cooper.sly cooper is legendary.come on sony make it happen.its not looking good on all those people leaving japan studio.hopefully sony have a back up plan.and sony buy bluepoint already.word up son

I would love to see the next Astro game on PS5. Not a PSVR2 exclusive just like Astro Rescue mission.

@OrigamiCrane I 100% agree with you, all the games on your list were between good and great, but came too late in the PS3 time to warrant enough success. That's a shame, as I would love a good updated version PS All Stars (just imagine a fight between Aloy, Nathan Drake, AstroBot and Jin Sakai!).
As for Puppeteer, it was absolutely fantastic and deserves its own franchise.

@Dr_ENT Why not 2 games : one for PS5 and the other for PSVR2? It looks like they want to invest on that franchise, so it's plausible...

@Olmaz the PS4 game (Rescue Mission) was PSVR only .. that’s a shame cause I really loved Astro’s Playroom on PS5.

@get2sammyb of course the real story here is the impact to the Bloodborne PS5 release.....

Yeah, I don't like this jim ryan era of playstation

Also I want puppeteer ps4/5 port, I think it will do quite well if sony release it on ps5 launch windows.

I don't know why, but seeing Gavin Moore's departure hit me the hardest.

As much as I adore Astro's Playroom, I don't think prioritizing whatever ASOBI does next was worth this massive bleeding of talent.

Again I hope all these talented developers find work very quickly, there are several Japanese studios that would benefit greatly from these talented guys and I wish them the best.

If I were Microsoft and I was playing 3D chess I would snatch up all the let go Japan Studio developers and form a new studio to create exclusive Japanese Xbox games, the positive PR from that would be through the roof and at the same time would make Playstation leadership look very stupid.

Hopefully someone else at Sony can pick up the Ape Escape property...please don't let that series die with a PS Move game 🥺

So Japan Studio disbands and some of the staff form a new studio? Cross platform releases or are XBox going to swoop in and kick PS yet again?

I bought Puppeteer and Folklore around the same time. Great games, even if the latter had me grind out a bit and still kicked my butt with the final boss, had waaaaay too much health.

One of my favorite games (Folklore also). Usually sell all my games once done, but this one is in my closet (with a small select few)

That said, it never sold.

Super excited for more Astro Bot. Including it with the PS5 was a great idea, it mad a fan out of me.

This really sucks now we are definitely not getting unique new PlayStation games like Puppeteer, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, Freedom Wars, Gravity Rush and more, just more The last of us looking games and I like TLoU but we need diversity not just the same looking genre, jim ryan needs to be replaced sooner rather than later

@get2sammyb oh, they sure seem to have plans for it, or they would have probably let its team slip through their fingers like the rest of the studio.😏

@Agramonte I only had a chance to try Folklore briefly two years ago, but I was impressed. Too bad it's yet another first party classic that got stuck on its native console and will soon drop out of official distribution for the visible future to boot.

@Playstation I was going to say something similar. This is not directed at Push Square at all. They are quite rightly reporting the news. But the slow exodus of staff has made the death of Japan studio all the more painful, and the more articles about it, only serve to increase the negative view of Playstation right now. Again, this is in no way a criticism of Push Square. But it would have been better if Japan Studio had all disbanded at once to avoid the constant flow of bad press.

Honestly, organisations lose people every day, but you dont see everyone of those getting a press release (as much as i would like one whenever i move on from mine 😂)

@Playstation Amazing list. That kind of output is near unrivalled in terms of quality. Not even Nintendo can match that. Other than animal crossing, their first party was a little bare bones last year with paper mario, hyrule warriors, the lazy ports of the 3d Mario collection and pikmin 3 (yes there will be some i missed too). That isnt a dig at Nintendo btw, but its more pointing to the fact that Sony's decline is drastically overstated. If Sony can deliver that during a pandemic then who knows what we have to look forward to in the years ahead.

But. I will repeat myself until blue in the face, regardless of the closure of Japan Studios. DO. NOT. NEGLECT. JAPAN. SONY. The Japanese development scene has always helped you to stand out

@wiiware But what games did we get from Japan Studio's i really like a lot of them. But they all failed financially prices are great but if they dont get sales its useless.

@Rob_230 I totally agree with your point i love their original/out of the box/weird games they are great.

We need more cheaper games so they can be smaller in scope and less devestating when they fail and keep Sony too stand out.

Japan Studio's is as great as its flawed. Original games but flawed development with not a lot of succes.

I love too see AA games with a smaller budget like Folklore, Pupeteer, Gravity Rush, ICO, Soul Sacrifice which should release on the PS5 and should have been released on the PS4 and much more.

@Playstation That's a nice list of games although I would remove Destruction all stars as that's trash in it's final form, it makes the list seem negative.

@Flaming_Kaiser i agree. I think this was the direction Shawn Layden wanted to take Playstation in too. He has been very vocal that not every game can be that massive AAA experience. Its too expensive, and development takes too long. He wanted 3 or 4 tentpole releases a year, supplemented by smaller AA games - that is arguable where the most creativity will be found - i mean you only have to look at Japan Studio's back catalogue to identify that was where the inventiveness and creativity could be found (among the first party studios), even if the games dont occupy that AAA space. And those are the games that can be sold for less. Playstation definitely need more of those titles.

I almost see VR as filling that space. I love my PSVR, but very few titles could be defined as AAA. I think that is possibly where Sony will continue to drop AA releases in future, with the launch of PSVR2 next year.

@get2sammyb Agreed about Puppeteer. Mad, how it seemed to get completely overshadowed by Knack, just because Knack was a PS4 game.

I enjoyed Puppeteer a lot (and even Rain to a lesser degree) and was looking forward to seeing more weird kinda-indie titles from Japan Studio on PS4 but we didn't really get any...

@Playstation Maybe for you Jim it’s doing good but for me he is doing some questionable decisions lately

Dreams
Creators tool that I don’t care

Predator Hunting Grounds
Never heard of this one (probably a generic game)

Iron Man VR
VR trash for a certain special people

The Last of us 2
Just a good game no more

Ghost of Tsushima
Now this is a masterpiece

Spider-Man Miles Morales
Great game expanding from the original

Demons Souls
Niche game for souls fans not me though

Sackboy A Big Adventure
Love this games and I’m glad Sony still remembers Sackboy

AstroBot
Looks promising

Destruction All Stars
Trash that tries to be the next fornite

Returnal
Never heard of this one (probably another generic game)

I doubt the studio was restructured around Team ASOBI just for PSVR iterations of Astrobot. I see that studio doing big things such as full-fledged Astrobot games on PS5. Astrobot will be a key mascot for Playstation moving forward.

@Rob_230 How about a new Dark Cloud its such a pity all the big companies think only in cash, recurring revenue, pumping out out the yearly updated IP not quality of BRAND such a pity.

@GKO900 Watch the article from yesterday it has been on the site several times its quite a achievement not knowing about this one. Demon Souls the game that made souls games a thing.

@Flaming_Kaiser I did watch a video on YouTube that basically said that Dark Souls could’ve been a Sony exclusive but they didn’t think it would work after disappointing sales on demon souls

Puppeteer and Folklore are two of my favourite underrated PS games, shame they are now a relic of the past.

I always thought the Puppeteer should have been a PS4 Launch title, instead of Knack.

I never heard of Puppeteer before. Now I want it big time.

Does the The Puppeteer require PS Move? Or is it optional? I avoided this game because I'm not a big fan of PS Move or the Wii for that matter.