| Kresnik said: They collaborated with Level-5 on Rogue Galaxy too. But quite possible I am confusing them, my point remains though. I mean, they're not developing Oreshika either are they? The development is being done by Alfa System. So we couldn't even be having this discussion if that wasn't what the quote was about. I generally see Japan Studio as the go-to studio for all Japanese development. They're collaborate internally on some stuff (Gravity Rush); externally on other stuff (Soul Sacrifice) and have purely internal development on other things (Knack). It might be more than SCEJ just commissions stuff, but for some reason I always feel like Japan Studio has a hand in it. Maybe I'm wrong about that. And in which case, I'd agree with your second point that where they've really fallen down is picking up stuff to be published by them. And in which case, it comes back to the point at hand because Oreshika is an example of such a game. |
Japan Studio is sort of a Japanese version of Sony Santa Monica, doing some of their own games and also pitching in on a lot of smaller devs' games. But they don't work on everything SCEJ publishes and didn't have a hand in the development of the games most people think of when they're talking about SCEJ JRPGs, like Wild ARMs, Dark Cloud, Arc the Lad, etc.
So all I'd take the Oreshika producer's quote to mean is that, if Oreshika sells well, SCEJ will be more inclined to make similar investments in the future. Which kind of goes without saying, though I expect the fate of such things hangs much more on the performance of those rumored PS4 games than on a little game like this.
