What went wrong?
What went wrong?
Jordan Cruz
John Roberts
Sony
Benjamin Perry
Demographics
Elijah Morales
sony
Robert Richardson
Sony shooed away Toyama and Ueda instead of funding their new projects.
Luke Allen
which was forced into an era of "perfect consoomers" after the industry-orchestrated gamergate. gamergate was all about pushing away the older audience who knew too much about games in order to usher in an era of superhero movie nerd trenders; whose trend was booming early-last-gen which was right before gamergate
Thomas Thomas
>tfw GR3 never ever
Aaron Young
The games sold well and were received well but didn't sell "well enough" which is a horrible policy.
Jose Collins
games were too fun and interesting
Jaxson Nelson
They made niche games that sold poorly and paid the price.
Brody Parker
Those games didn't push the (((agenda))).
Angel Watson
California
Charles Baker
FPBP
Colton Gonzalez
Their only good games were with FromGODware
They couldn't make anything not shovelware-tier on their own
Owen Mitchell
sony on california
Levi Cooper
not woke enough
Bentley Evans
California had no impact on their games. It's not any western studio's fault that Japan Studio was reduced to a glorified production support company by the 2010s. Most of their games flopped and Sony didn't see a reason to keep them around.
Benjamin Smith
Owned by Sony
Eli Nguyen
Sony wanted to shift towards big budget projects and forgo a lot of their more niche titles. Sadly, this made Japan Studio an easy target combined with Sony's shift to a more Western focus.
Adam Lewis
not enough niggers to push down our throats
Isaac Sullivan
The heads of Team Siren, Team Ico, and Project Siren left to go start their own studios. Team ASOBI was the only team still left at Japan Studio so Sony turned them into their own studio and sent the rest of the staff to XDEV's Japanese studio.