Sony: New PS3 Games Coming from Japan in 2010
With the majority of Sony’s first-party PS3 line-up coming from Eastern developers from both North America and Europe, many have wondered where are all of the PS3 games coming from Sony Japan. Aside from Gran Turismo and the Last Guardian, the land of the rising sun has been rather quiet when it comes to the PS3…
According to Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony World Wide Studios, we’ll see some new ideas coming out of Sony Japan in 2010. In a recent interview with Gamasutra Yoshida had this to say:
“I’ve been working on this with management of Japan studios since last year. When I came back to Japan, their focus was shifted onto the PSP, which reflects the success of the PSP as a platform in Japan. So that’s great from from a business sense, but as a first party we need to provide games that expand the market for the platform.
The PS3 installed base hasn’t been as good as in Europe or the States. So we are strategizing how to bring in more resources. It’s completely opposite of the way how US and European teams moved onto working on the PS3 and we see the fruits of those efforts, while Japan studios shifted their focus onto the PSP.
So they’ve constantly released interesting PSP games, but the PS3 output has declined. So we are now re-energizing teams and coming up with new ideas for PS3 development, outside The Last Guardian and Gran Turismo, from Japan studios.
We’ll be able to show fruits of this work sometime next year.”
No word clues have been given as to what we will see come next year, but we are hoping for some RPGs and hope to see some Motion Controller support.
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October 31st, 2009 at 3:12 PM
It’s about time!
October 31st, 2009 at 4:11 PM
All those smart people in Japan and they can’t work on the PSP & PS3 at the same time?
Perhaps I’m oversimplifying things…
October 31st, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I hope Tales of Vespreia gets here soon!
October 31st, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Godd news! Aren’t they forgetting about Tecmo’s new game.
October 31st, 2009 at 6:21 PM
they need to work on KH3 and they’ll be flowing in cash, stop working on that other FF title & start working on KH3
October 31st, 2009 at 6:35 PM
@wtgp
this isnt an article about squaresoft…and Sony Japan has nothing to do with 3rd party releases
October 31st, 2009 at 6:42 PM
edite: Squareenix
November 1st, 2009 at 3:48 AM
It’s all about gamer tastes. Their marketing people have told them the North Americans don’t like “Japanesy” games (ie. the success of the 360), so they stop sending them. Demon’s Souls (a western STYLED game) was a shot heard round the world. Here comes White Knight Chronicles too.
November 1st, 2009 at 6:17 AM
Kinda explains why Japan hasn’t been as eager to pick up a PS3 as they were with the previous PS machines.
It’ll also be nice to see what the guys in Japan come up with, hopefully we see some great stuff over here in Europe and the US.
November 1st, 2009 at 6:50 PM
they need more rpg’s
November 1st, 2009 at 9:11 PM
JRPGs please!
November 4th, 2009 at 7:11 PM
I thought it was just my lack of finding these games, but here i come to find out I may not be entirely to blame….
pass the buck, me, pass the buck