When historical figures of the videogame industry announce changes in their career there is always a lot of curiosity and this is what is happening with the update on the Sony's Japan Studio that from January 1 2021 will not be able to count on Teruyuki Toriyama who will leave the company on December 31.
The update comes directly from the official Twitter profile of the producer, recently engaged with Astro's Playroom, the free title included with PlayStation 5, and with the awaited exclusive next-gen Demon's Souls Remake, a modern restyle of the title released on PlayStation 2.
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I will be leaving SIE WWS JAPAN Studio at the end of Dec. To all the users who have supported JAPAN Studio so far, thank you so much! I will continue to take on the challenge of creating new game IPs in my new company, and I ask for your continued support. #JAPANStudio
- 鳥 山 晃 之 (Teruyuki Toriyama) | SIE JAPAN Studio (@TORIYAMA_SIE) December 24, 2020
Toriyama announces that at the end of December he will leave Sony to dedicate himself to a new challenge by creating new IPs with his new company, and asking for the support of his fans. Toriyama is the latest in a series of major figures to leave Sony, in September it was the turn of the author Keiichiro Toyama (Silent Hill, Gravity Rush) who founded the new Bokeh Game Studio only to be joined by Kazunobu Sato (producer of The Last Guardian) and Junya Okura (Gravity Rush).
► Demon's Souls is an RPG-Adventure game developed by Bluepoint Games Sony Interactive Entertainment and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 5, the video game was released on 12/11/2020
Version for PlayStation 5 from 19/11/2020
