The producer of Demon’s Souls’ remake, Bloodborne, or Soul Sacrifice, is also leaving the Japanese team of Sony Interactive Entertainment behind.

Teruyuki Toriyama announced on Twitter that he’s about to leave his former workplace behind: „I will be leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios Japan Studio at the end of December. 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,” he wrote.

With his leave, we can carve another name up to the list that includes people leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio. Previously we heard that Keiichiro Toyama (the director of the first Silent Hill for example), Kazunobu Sato, and Junya Okura have also left Sony behind, but about them, we wrote that they left to establish Bokeh Game Studio. (This studio, as well as its first title, will be discussed later in the news today.)

These departures make us feel like that PlayStation is slowly shifting towards the West. Even the PlayStation 5’s design felt alien if you compare it with the previous four generations (and their respective smaller versions), plus the PS5’s Japanese user interface has taken on the Western approach. Until now, the X was used to cancel things and Circle was used to approve things. However, a twenty-five-year tradition has ended by swapping them around in the Asian country to the Western style. Not to mention that Sony Interactive Entertainment’s main headquarters is located in the United States, plus its led by someone non-Japanese (Jim Ryan – at least one of his predecessors, Andrew House, knew Japanese almost as a native language).

Still, we wish the best for Toriyama – let’s hope that we’ll hear from him shortly.

Source: Gematsu