Saw a TikTok reacting to a Sony CFO (I think?) saying they don't have enough in-house IP, and they listed a bunch of games that aren't owned by Sony but were on PlayStation.
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Saw a TikTok reacting to a Sony CFO (I think?) saying they don't have enough in-house IP, and they listed a bunch of games that aren't owned by Sony but were on PlayStation.
I rolled my eyes but Andrea's gotten heated and keeps asking me if this game or that game was owned by Sony and started angrily chewing her thumbnail. Now she's going to make a list, check who owns the IP, and make a video of her own correcting the post and commenters. :ac_laughter:
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"Gitaroo Man!" Koei-Tecmo
"Parasite Eve!" SquareEnix
"Kingdom Hearts!" SquareEnix
"Klonoa!" Bandai Namco
"Ape Escape?" That's one, that's Sony. -
@tamitha Oh wow, they really shouldn't let people like that be anything resembling a spokesperson.
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@killyourfm Oh! Sorry, that wasn't the CFO listing games. It was the person reacting to an article quoting the CFO. Edited my original toot for clarity.
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@tamitha oooh gotcha!
Speaking of Sony IP though, why are they squandering such great franchises? Resistance, Killzone, Ape Escape, and I'm sure so many more. -
@killyourfm Honestly? IMO, they're not a development house anymore.
I didn't even know this until recently, but Sony Interactive Entertainment moved out of Japan for San Mateo California in 2016.
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@killyourfm The 2 Japanese developers they have left are Team Asobi who just put out Astro Bot, and Polyphony Digital for Gran Turismo.
And only Polyphony Digital was around for the OG PlayStation. Team Asobi was created as a division of Japan Studio in 2012.
Every other dev they own is a Western studio.
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@tamitha That's...borderline shocking. I see they shuttered Japan Studios some time ago
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@killyourfm Yeah, it really is. Don't get me wrong, they have some excellent Western studios under their umbrella. But when you look at what they do...?
- Insomniac - Ratchet & Clank and Spider-Man -- which both got PS5 entries!
- Naughty Dog - They keep remaking The Last of Us or repackaging old Uncharted games.
- Bend Studio - Last game was Days Gone? Haven't touched Syphon Filter or Resistance in a decade.
- San Diego - Exclusively MLB: The Show now, I think?
- Santa Monica - God of War
- Sucker Punch - Moved on from Infamous for Ghosts of Tsushima
- Bluepoint Games - Remakes. Nothing original.
- Firewalk Studios - Concord, which... yeah.
- Guerilla Games - Horizon, which had a PS5 entry!
- Media Molecule - LBP, Tearaway, Dreams, all dead or dying.
- Housemarque - Returnal in 2021. Dunno what they're working on.
- Nixxes - Windows ports of PS games.
That's... it. That's all they have.
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@killyourfm Japan Studio, dead. London Studio, dead. 989 Studios, dead. BigBig Studios, dead. Evolution Studios, dead. Guerrilla Cambridge, dead. Incognito, dead. Manchester Studio, as dead as PSVR. Studio Liverpool, dead, Zipper Interactive, dead.
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@tamitha I ... I need some time to process all of that. This is sobering. I had no idea the scope of closures and layoffs. So many memorable studios and projects on that list.