What wrong with SCE Japan?
While SCEA and SCEE developed tons of games, invented new and successful franchises and IP's , made strong relationships with old and new studios and purchased a few and really helped getting the PS3 back on it knees and Sony Computer Entertainment as a whole ... it seems the only one missing the party is SCEJ
I know SCEJ owns Polyphony Digital and Team Ico although Team Ico is really part of Japan Studio.
Those are 2 studios trusted to always make AAA games but they're both very unique and take a long time to make each of their games
The two significant things they've done in this generation is creating the White Knight Chronicles IP which was mediocre in terms of scores but had good sales in Japan but not outside of Japan and creating the Demon's Souls IP which was more of Japan Studio project than From Software project if you ask me but Sony passed on it and let Atlus publish it in the US and claim all the success
Why have they abandon all their older franchises? Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy, The Legend of Dragoon... where the hell are all those games? why haven't they started relationships with Japanese studios? are there simply not enough talented Japanese studios? maybe they don't fit into what SCEJ is? I really don't know
Do you think at this point they can catch up with SCEA or SCEE? The only way I see that happening is if Sony will buy Square Enix and get their major franchises such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts and in addition they will get a great addition to SCEA getting Eidos franchises like Deus Ex and Hitman
But... there's no chance that it will happen.. maybe a very slim chance
We all know SCE usually only buy small-medium studios they had strong relationships with
