PlayStation is still losing its producers

 Teruyuki Toriyama leaves Sony Japan Studio

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Producer Teruyuki Toriyama, who had been working at Sony's Japan Studio since the mid-2000s, is stepping down at the end of December 2020. An important new start for a unit undergoing restructuring.

It is through a message on Twitter that the former producer on Bloodborne but also on Soul Sacrifice, Uprooted or more recently the remake of Demon's Souls, announced his departure from Sony's Japan Studio. At the same time, he specifies that he will continue in the video game industry, in a "new studio" as yet unknown.

[Notice]
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

This departure follows that of Keiichiro Toyama during the summer, the former Konami headliner and director of the first Silent Hill having left to found Bokeh Game Studio. It is thus the confirmation of an in-depth change for Sony's development team, headed by Frenchman Nicolas Doucet at the beginning of the year, shortly before a profound restructuring of its workforce in April.



Producer Teruyuki Toriyama, who had been working in Sony's Japan Studio since the mid-2000s, is preparing to leave his position at the end of December 2020. Toriyama's initiative can be correlated with the departure of Keiichiro Toyama (Silent Hill). The latter left Sony studios this summer to create his own, named Bokeh Game. Nevertheless, nothing has been officialized and all this is only suppositions (and coincidences?).