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Apocalyptic
08/07/17 11:36:36 AM
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Recently, Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan and Asia President Atsushi Morita and Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studio Shuhei Yoshida took part in a panel organized by Weekly Famitsu and Dengeki PlayStation at the National Entertainment Festival held at the Yanagase Shopping Arcade in Gifu, Japan.

During the event, one of the questions inquired on whether Sony would ever release a RPG dedicated to the Japanese audience for consoles again, since Arc the Lad and Wild Arms games are being developed for mobile platforms.

The answer, relayed by the Japanese site Panora (which did not identify whether it came from Yoshida-san or Morita-san), was certainly vague, but not entirely discouraging.

We hear that Sony has received many requests from veteran fans – not limited to Arc the Lad and Wild Arms – for the resurrection of SIE Japan Studio’s titles focused on the Japanese audience, especially a few JRPG franchises. Yet, in Recent years, due to the soaring of development costs, investment has been mainly focused on titles which could be hits on a global scale.

That being said, recently Japanese studios’ games developed for Japanese gamers have received high praise overseas. This is leading Sony to begin considering whether it could be profitable for its Worldwide Studios to make that kind of game again.

There are a lot of “maybes” and “considering” in there, which means that we definitely should not take this as a promise. Yet, it’s nice to hear that a return of Sony’s first party studios the JRPG genre is at least being considered in some capacity.

After all, Sony Interactive Entertainment certainly isn’t blind, and I’m sure they have taken notice of the commercial and critical success of games like Persona 5, NieR: Automata, Final Fantasy XV and Dragon Quest XI.


http://www.dualshockers.com/sony-jrpg-japan-studio/

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OpheliaAdenade
08/07/17 11:37:14 AM
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Legend of Dragoon please.
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AlternativeFAQS
08/07/17 11:37:16 AM
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yep. sony knows their fans will continually buy old games over and over so they're gonna milk the fuck out of it
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KiwiTerraRizing
08/07/17 11:38:00 AM
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Suikoden 6 you Mother fuckers
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--kresnik--
08/07/17 11:38:13 AM
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Yes! That's good news. Arc the lad trilogy was great btw (never played the ps2 games).
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LIsJustice
08/07/17 11:38:26 AM
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OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.

Dis. I'd cream myself if a LOD 2 got announced at next years' E3.
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Questionmarktarius
08/07/17 11:40:09 AM
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Yet, in Recent years, due to the soaring of development costs, investment has been mainly focused on titles which could be hits on a global scale.

And that's why the console industry is poised to crash again.
Possibly with Switch as the sole survivor, because "shitty indie games" aren't afraid to publish there. Even more so if "shitty weeb games" migrate over.
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l Dudeboy l
08/07/17 11:44:59 AM
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AlternativeFAQS posted...
yep. sony knows their fans will continually buy old games over and over so they're gonna milk the fuck out of it


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Coffeebeanz
08/07/17 11:46:45 AM
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AlternativeFAQS posted...
yep. sony knows their fans will continually buy old games over and over so they're gonna milk the fuck out of it


Microsoft would do it too if they actually had any old games worth milking
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Etherealfare
08/07/17 11:49:31 AM
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Microsoft has Age of Empires. Age of Empires 2 is still among top 10 most played games on Steam everyday.
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Mako_Sharknado
08/07/17 11:50:40 AM
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Legaia goddammit
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Bad_Mojo
08/07/17 11:51:07 AM
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AlternativeFAQS
08/07/17 11:51:49 AM
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Coffeebeanz posted...
AlternativeFAQS posted...
yep. sony knows their fans will continually buy old games over and over so they're gonna milk the fuck out of it


Microsoft would do it too if they actually had any old games worth milking


uh
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andel
08/07/17 11:53:00 AM
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lod 2 would be great. arc the lad was top tier also, at least the psx ones were
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Apocalyptic
08/07/17 3:08:11 PM
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Hm...
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Kirby
08/07/17 3:09:33 PM
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Mako_Sharknado posted...
Legaia goddammit

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apocalyptic_4
08/07/17 3:11:34 PM
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Sure as hell would save gaming for me.

To many shooters and demon souls open world copy and paste assassins creed games out now days.
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ManLink4321
08/07/17 3:11:39 PM
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tc wants old jrpgs to play
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Pancake
08/07/17 3:12:32 PM
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the only decent one they made was wild arms
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Allanon23
08/07/17 3:13:22 PM
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--kresnik-- posted...
Yes! That's good news. Arc the lad trilogy was great btw (never played the ps2 games).


Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits was really good.

End of Darkness.....let's not talk about that one.
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Albel-Nox
08/07/17 3:14:48 PM
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LIsJustice posted...
OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.

Dis. I'd cream myself if a LOD 2 got announced at next years' E3.
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PrettyBoyFloyd
08/07/17 3:17:58 PM
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Albel-Nox posted...
LIsJustice posted...
OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.

Dis. I'd cream myself if a LOD 2 got announced at next years' E3.

Yet I'd be scared they'd fuck it up.
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EternalDivide
08/07/17 3:19:24 PM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
Unless they're turn-based they can fuck off

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ChromaticAngel
08/07/17 3:25:02 PM
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LIsJustice posted...
OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.

Dis. I'd cream myself if a LOD 2 got announced at next years' E3.

Why? You wouldn't be able to play it until Playstation 6
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Very_Unreliable
08/07/17 3:27:57 PM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Suikoden 6 you Mother fuckers

lol konami would have to come back from the dead
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MrMallard
08/07/17 3:33:40 PM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Suikoden 6 you Mother fuckers

Konami, reviving franchises after they spent decades killing off franchises, shuffling staff between projects for maximum profit and gutting their game development studios to make shitty pachinko machines? Good luck.

genuinely bummed, though. Suikoden 1 was fun, and I'm about to play the sequel which is apparently amazing. More games would be appreciated, but I doubt Konami would let go of the series so another company can profit off of it.
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PlsGodDontBanMe
08/07/17 3:34:45 PM
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OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.

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creativerealms
08/07/17 3:36:18 PM
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Media.vision needs to get back to wildARMs. No more side games for franchises they didn't make.
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Freddie_Mercury
08/07/17 3:39:58 PM
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AlternativeFAQS posted...
yep. sony knows their fans will continually buy old games over and over so they're gonna milk the fuck out of it



why do xboners get triggered whenever japan makes games for other consoles
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M0Foe
08/07/17 3:41:07 PM
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dark cloud \^~ ^/
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Apocalyptic
08/07/17 6:24:45 PM
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ManLink4321 posted...
tc wants old jrpgs to play


I do.
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Kanaya413
08/07/17 6:25:39 PM
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Mako_Sharknado posted...
Legaia goddammit

OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.

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_BlueMonk
08/07/17 6:27:37 PM
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remember when we thought Chrono Break was going to be a thing?

sigh.
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SolKarellen
08/07/17 6:58:18 PM
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Lower-budget JRPG revivals would be interesting.

Pillars of Eternity really makes me believe in a low-budget '90s-like RPGs renaissance.

I still find LoD's visuals impressive today with great art direction and world building behind them. Battle system could've used worked.
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Apocalyptic
08/07/17 6:58:43 PM
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_BlueMonk posted...
remember when we thought Chrono Break was going to be a thing?

sigh.


I still believe.
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Ricemills
08/07/17 7:02:03 PM
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Suikoden 6 you Mother fuckers


*laughs in konami*
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EverDownward
08/07/17 7:02:23 PM
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Etherealfare posted...
Microsoft has Age of Empires. Age of Empires 2 is still among top 10 most played games on Steam everyday.

And for some reason Age of Empires III, a game from 2005, is forty dollars. Absurd.
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Darmik
08/07/17 7:03:21 PM
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As successful as Persona 5 and Nier Automata were for their own companies I don't think their 2 million sales would be enough for them to change their mind really. FFXV and DQ are long term franchises that have always stuck around.

I'd love to be proven wrong though. But I think at most they might publish/fund a third party title, release a mobile title like they are now or stick to lower budget Japanese games like Gravity Rush and ICO games (not sure if they could get away with a JRPG from these studios).
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kingdrake2
08/07/17 7:16:57 PM
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OpheliaAdenade posted...
Legend of Dragoon please.


would even take the original game with trophy support it can happen.
pretty much anything is welcomed haven't had any recent announcements other than the bringing in of .hacksign
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ChromaticAngel
08/07/17 7:40:09 PM
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SolKarellen posted...
Lower-budget JRPG revivals would be interesting.

There are a few of these already. The Neptunia games, Bravely Default, I am Setsuna, Project Octopath, Radiant Historia, etc.

You have only yourself to blame if you haven't played them.

Well, except Octopath. That hasn't been released yet.
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Wetterdew
08/07/17 7:42:32 PM
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Octopath Traveler looks awesome, visually at least. I wish they'd hurry up and finish + release it already.
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Darmik
08/07/17 7:48:13 PM
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I think we will see more JRPG's on the PS4 in general yeah. Since the 3DS is winding down and anything on Switch could be ported to the PS4 rather easily. We've already seen a lot of PS4/Vita games from Japan.
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Calwings
08/07/17 7:50:01 PM
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MrMallard posted...
KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Suikoden 6 you Mother fuckers

Konami, reviving franchises after they spent decades killing off franchises, shuffling staff between projects for maximum profit and gutting their game development studios to make shitty pachinko machines? Good luck.

Konami literally brought Bomberman back from the dead just a few months ago. Anything's possible.
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Touch
08/07/17 8:00:58 PM
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Legend of Dragoon split into 10 episodes with 10 more 30 minute episodes as dlc
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Apocalyptic
08/07/17 10:03:45 PM
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Calwings posted...
MrMallard posted...
KiwiTerraRizing posted...
Suikoden 6 you Mother fuckers

Konami, reviving franchises after they spent decades killing off franchises, shuffling staff between projects for maximum profit and gutting their game development studios to make shitty pachinko machines? Good luck.

Konami literally brought Bomberman back from the dead just a few months ago. Anything's possible.


Will Castlevania be great again?
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