Draugoth
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Speaking on the Official PlayStation podcast in a joint interview with Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet, the head of PlayStation studios commented on the importance of Astro as a brand going forward for PlayStation.
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Astro Bot is ‘very, very important’ as an IP for PlayStation, says boss Hermen Hulst
Speaking on the Official PlayStation podcast in a joint interview with Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet, the head of PlayStation studios commented on the importance of Astro as a brand going forward for PlayStation.
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Moriarty1889
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Good to see him at least recognizing this. The game is brilliant and a breathe of fresh air. We need more of these types of games.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Developers safe from the chopping block.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Then make sure it stays only on PlayStation you cunt
Insanemaelstrom
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If he was that smart he wouldn't be commissioning so many horizon games
Trogdor1123
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(Insert current ip that sold well) is very, very important to us.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No_Cartridge
Neo Member
A PC port would be a completely different game without a DS controller so I think Astro is safe.
Killjoy-NL
Gold Member
Why wouldn't he recognize it?
It's only a certain group of people that claim Hulst is ruining Playstation.
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Cyberpunkd
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Anything that takes people's mind of Concord.
firegamer273
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Angry_Megalodon
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It's so important for him that he scrapped a new VR game, where this IP became relevant.
Only when his friends in the media praise it, he acknowledges its existence.
Bungie + Haven + Firewalk = 4 billion. Literally, ruin.
Only when his friends in the media praise it, he acknowledges its existence.
Bungie + Haven + Firewalk = 4 billion. Literally, ruin.
firegamer273
Member
game director literally asked pc fans if they are interested in a pc port one week before release and you think its not gonna come to pc?
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Just like Hi Fi Rush to MS? 
James Sawyer Ford
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No_Cartridge
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Have you played the game? Just out of interest. It has extensive gyro controls which is not in an Xbox controller the most common controller on PC. Its big sell is haptics also not on Xbox and adaptive triggers.
If it comes to PC it would need to be bundled in with a dualsense as the controller is about 50% of the game.
The game doesn't work without a dualsense.
That doesn't mean it won't.
Killjoy-NL
Gold Member
Fixed.
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firegamer273
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i mean playstation released a dual sense accessory app on PC like 2 weeks ago and you can fully costumize your dualsense on PC now . people can buy dualsense for PC use also its not something thats only works on playstation.
Bert Big Balls
Gold Member
Agreed. It's absolutely amazing. Just pure fun, looks great, plays great, and no bullshit whatsoever. Takes me back to the PS1/PS2 days.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
People are so mad at Hulst for some reason that they are spewing pure delulu.
Hulst was the man who initiated Team Asobi separation from Japan Studio and was the main driving force behing them and Astro in general. Astro Bot was 2D game from the start too.
No_Cartridge
Neo Member
To ask a PC player to buy a new controller to play a game is a bigger ask then to say hey this game is coming to PC.
The price is now 70$ for a new controller plus the price of the game that applies to a large percentage PC players.
If it comes to PC great, I have zero reservations but to pretend its not an issue because a DS works with an adapter is nonsense.
Angry_Megalodon
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"Separation" is one way to say it. Another way is shutting down the whole studio but Asobi (who were already a team within Japan Studio)
Money speaks louder than words. If the IP were so important to him, he would spend 1/20 of the money invested in Bungie and would:
- Port the original Astro Bot Rescue Mission for PSVR 2
- Double the size of Asobi so they can work in the VR version of this one, too.
He didn't fund either cos he doesn't care. He's just bandwagoning after his epic GaaS failure.
Heisenberg007
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He isn't smart for green-liting sequels and games after Horizon Zero Dawn sold ~25 million copies?
Insanemaelstrom
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Never said anything about sequels. Rather commenting on the over saturation of the series due to Lego game( cool concept, excited for it), multiplayer game and mmo along with horizon 3. Guerrilla is involved with 4 horizon games, in an ideal world, one of those would be a new ip and another a killzone game.He isn't smart for green-liting sequels and games after Horizon Zero Dawn sold ~25 million copies?
daclynk
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Killjoy-NL
Gold Member
Sounds more like your personal wishlist (although I'd love a new Killzone game).
How about we just wait and see what they deliver, instead of hitting the panic button before we've seen anything?
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nial
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Why do you always make shit up? Team Aosbi even stated that they wanted their next game to have a wider audience.
Now thanks to not being a PSVR2 exclusive, Astro Bot will be more relevant than ever before, so your point is dumb.
James Sawyer Ford
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The studio director of Asobi doesn’t want a massive studio
Hermen never wanted to shut them down, that’s Jaffe bullshit
His GaaS success (HD2) exceeds his losses (concord)
The hate for Hermen is unfounded bullshit
nial
Member
Why exactly do you think he ""shut down"" Japan Studio's Internal Development Department?
To establish Team Asobi and focus on Astro Bot.
Insanemaelstrom
Member
Can agree to that. Honestly, I hope every project pans out, but over saturation can be a real issue. Even Marvel wasn't exempted from it.
yurinka
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Japan Studio was not developing Gravity Rush or Ape Scape (at least for console) or any VR game, they were developing mobile games. Hermen (and Jim) did cancel all these mobile games, restructured the studio, did greenlight this game to put all of them to work on it.
They did a great job making a masterpiece that is selling very well, so obviously he recognizes their job.
No, he didn't shut down Japan Studio and didn't separate Team Asobi from it.
He restructured and rebranded it. He merged the different internal development teams of Japan Studio into one of them, Team Asobi, and as SIE previously did in EU and US, they branched out their 2nd party publishing/support team XDEV from JP to become their own studio now part of the global XDEV team. Both teams got new and bigger offices in the same SIE Japan HQ building where the Japan Studio one was to grow.
Team Asobi, who released Astro Bot after the restructuring, are from Japan Studio. Before the restructuring they were working on different mobile games, which got cancelled by Hermen (and Jim). The woman in charge of these mobile games business / did put them to work on that was fired by them and now works for Xbox (the former studio boss was also fired).
XDEV Japan, who released Death Stranding Director's Cut, Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin after the restructuring, are from Japan Studio. They are now in charge not only of the 2nd party Japanese games, but also from the rest of Asia. They are working on Lost Soul Aside, Convallaria, Death Stranding 2 or Physint.
It is not the first time Japan Studio got rebranded, restructured, changes of divisio or that their internal development teams and 2nd party publishing team merges or separates. It happened multiple times before.
Horizon Zero Dawn was SIE's best selling game ever. It would be stupid to don't make more Horizon games.
Destiny made more money than all Japan Studio games together. Japan Studio was a money pit that in 3 decades wasn't abe to develop a single sales hit. He restructured that studio, cancelled the mobile games they were working on and greenlighted this game that seems is going to be the best selling internally developed Japan Studio game ever.
He gave to both Team Asobi and XDEV Japan (the two halfs of Japan studio, the one dedicated to internal developed games and the one dedicated to Asian 2nd party games & support) new offices where they could grow after there restructuring. Team Asobi was planned to grow until almost double in size and started to grow but decided to temporally stop.
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Killjoy-NL
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True, I do think they should move away from Horizon after the upcoming projects.
They should definitely revisit Killzone, imo.
nial
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forwardworks was a different thing, tho, and that wasn't managed by hulst
Physiognomonics
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nial
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The only mobile game Japan Studio made (in its later years) was No Heroes Allowed! Dash, and that was also in collaboration with ForwardWorks.
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yurinka
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Hermen became head of SIE November 2019.
In 2020 started the current gen, which even being still at its half already became their (and also from any other console maker in gaming history) top grossing generation ever.
This current generation already generated more profit than all previous PS generations combined.
So it's literally the opposite of ruin.
yurinka
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As I said, they were making multiple mobile games that got cancelled with the restructuring.
The Vice President of Japan Studio Business Development had moved to be VP of Japan Studio Mobile Business during a year but with the restructuring Hermen and Jim killed these Japan Studio mobile games and fired her, who now works at Xbox. And greenlighted Astro Bot to put all of these devs to work on it.
They merged all the internal development teams of Japan Studios into one of them (Japan Studio) and as they did before in EU or US they branched out their XDEV team of the Asian region out of a local gamedev studio to continue doing the same job working in games released after the restructuring like Death Stranding Director's Cut, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, Convallaria, Lost Soul Aside, Death Stranding 2 or Physint.
And yes, No Heroes Allowed! Dash got released and did work with ForwardWorks. Forwardworks (A Sony team) has been recently absorved by Aniplex (another Sony team) and dissolved.
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