Sony Japan Studio director Keiichiro Toyama, and 2 other veterans, leave to form new studio, Bokeh

[mjk45]

sales2099 said:

mjk45 said:

On the front page now we have an article of two devs from upper management leaving Bioware, but we don't have a thread about an  EA exodus.

The industry has people moving all the time, the difference now is anyone from the CEO to the Janitor leaves, VGChartz makes an article so it has more exposure now.

As to why the movement of Sony's personnel seems to hold intrigue compared to movement elsewhere, without any negatives from those moving on to drive the interest or data showing there is a unaccountable spike in movement,I would conjecture that it comes down to human nature. 

That being that we tend to see things we align with/like from a glass half full positive standpoint, while starting from a more glass half empty critical approach towards those that don't.

Well it’s news like this coupled with seemingly every 2 months I read that The Initiative poached another Sony dev. So there’s that. Also didn’t the Days Gone dev have a departure too?

Like I said you are seeing more reporting on these movements, but for some reason someone leaving a Sony Studio becomes leaving Sony while elsewhere it is more likely tied to a particular studio, another factor you have to take into account is scheduling most of Sony big games have come out in the last few years and that tends to be the time that movement is at it's peak, plus the way the media portrays this is  you get headlines ND developer leaves,only to find out that he/she  was there for less than 2 years on a short term contract but only the headline gets attention.