- Name
- SIE Japan Studio
- Abbreviation
- Founded
- 16 November 1993
- Location
- Tokyo,Kanto,Japan
- Website
- http://www.worldwidestudios.net/japan
- Aliases
- Sony Japan,SCE Japan Studio
SIE Japan Studio
Tokyo,Kanto,Japan
Sony's Japanese in-house developer, best known for the Ape Escape, Patapon and Siren series, and many others.
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Overview
Japan Studio has created many PlayStation franchises including Ape Escape, Siren, Patapon, Echocrome, LocoRoco, and other solo games like The Last Guy, Piyotama and Trash Panic. They also have an external projects division that collaborates with outside studios on development, resulting titles like Demon's Souls and the White Knight Chronicles games. In the past Japan Studio has had some development teams who stayed together over multiple projects and developed an identity of their own, like Team ICO and Project Siren. However since then it has become more common for the studio to assemble development teams on a project to project basis, and games are typically just identified as developed by Japan Studio itself.
List of internally developed games
PlayStation:
- Ape Escape (Game) - 1999
PlayStation 2
- Pipo Saru 2001 (Game) - 2001
- Ape Escape 2 (Game) - 2001
- Siren (Game) - 2003
- Ape Escape 3 (Game) - 2005
- Forbidden Siren 2 (Game) - 2006
PlayStation Portable
- Ape Escape Academy (Game) - 2004
- Ape Escape: On the Loose - 2005
- LocoRoco (Game) - 2006
- WTF: Work Time Fun - 2006
- Patapon (Game) - 2007
- Ape Quest (Game) - 2008
- Echochrome (Game) - 2008
- Patapon 2 (Game) - 2008
- LocoRoco 2 (Game) - 2008
- Finger Connection (Game) - 2010
- Patapon 3 (Game) - 2011
PlayStation 3
- Piyotama (Game) - 2007 (PSN)
- LocoRoco Cocoreccho! - 2007 (PSN)
- The Eye of Judgment (Game) - 2007
- Echochrome (Game) - 2008
- Siren: Blood Curse - 2008
- The Last Guy (Game) - 2008
- Trash Panic (Game) - 2009
- Numblast (Game) - 2009 (PSN)
- Kung Fu Rider (Game) - 2010
- Echocrome II - 2010
- Ape Escape Move (Game) - 2010
- Beat Sketcher (Game) - 2010 (PSN)
- Bleach: Soul Resurreccion - 2011
- Puppeteer (Game) - 2013
- Rain (Game) - 2013
PS Vita
- Gravity Rush (Game) - 2012
- No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either! - 2013
PlayStation 4
- Knack (Game) - 2014
List of games co-developed with other studios
Studio Japan has also collaborated with other Japanese developers to produce a number of games. Games developed with Level-5:
- White Knight Chronicles - 2008 (PlayStation 3)
- White Knight Chronicles 2 - 2010 (PlayStation 3)
Games developed with From Software:
- Demon's Souls - 2009 (PlayStation 3)
- Bloodborne (Game) - 2015 (PlayStation 4)
With Crispy's!
- Tokyo Jungle (Game) - 2012 (PlayStation Network, PlayStation 3)
With Comcept and Marvelous
- Soul Sacrifice (Game) - 2013 (PlayStation Vita)
- Soul Sacrifice Delta (Game) - 2014 (PlayStation Vita)
With Alfa System
- Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines - 2014 (PlayStation Vita)
With Shift and DIMPS
- Freedom Wars (Game) - 2014 (PlayStation Vita)
Developed Games
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Knack II (Game)
Knack is back with 2-player co-op (even though there was co-op in the first game).
Lifeline (Game)
A sci-fi survival-horror game for the PS2, where players use voice controls to direct a survivor of a monster attack aboard a space station hotel.
Published Games
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Vib Ripple (Game)
The sequel to NanaOn-Sha's PlayStation game Vib Ribbon, Vib Ripple once again places you in the role of Vibri as she searches for hidden artifacts inside seemingly ordinary-looking photographs.
Mainichi Issho (Game)
PSN game featuring the SCEJ mascot, Toro. Features mini games, an artificial life sim game and entertaining parody news blogs that often unlock game related models and posters for Toro's room.
PoPoRoGue (Game)
PoPoRoGue is the Japanese only released sequel to PoPoLoCrois. It directly follows the events chronicled in the anime series (which was released after PoPoLoCrois). Players once again take control of Prince Pietro for another epic journey through his fathers kingdom of Popolocrois.
