Talent agency Aoni Production announced on its website on Tuesday that voice actor Kazunari Tanaka passed away on Monday due to a hemorrhage in his brain stem. He was 49.
Aside from anime, Tanaka has also voiced roles in games such as Persona 5 (Junya Kaneshiro) and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (Tamami Kobayashi).
Former PlayStation executive Shuehi Yoshida, who recently departed Sony after more than 30 years with the electronics giant, revealed that he went hands-on with Naughty Dog’s cancelled The Last of Us Online game, and came away quite impressed.
“But Bungie explained [to them] what it takes to make live service games, and Naughty Dog realised, ‘Oops, we can’t do that! If we do it, we can’t make Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.’ So that was a lack of foresight.”
Well that was an expensive oopsie!
Why does everything multiplayer have to have some elaborate service plan? Factions 1 didn’t. It was just a good multiplayer with some add-ons down the road. Simple yet effective.
I’m sure it was. They should have got another studio to maintain it after release and have ND consult the ongoing direction. Oh well , spilled milk at this point
If only they did the same thing as the original
an additional bit of fun that turned out really great
but no, live service shit ruins even more
Shuhei Yoshida stated that Sony did not force studios to develop live service games, but decisions were likely made collaboratively.
Sorry Shu but I doubt that
NaughtyDog wouldn't have made Factions II into a bigger thing where it become too ambitious, Sony Bend wouldn't have done live service off their own backs, Bluepoint would definitely not wanted to do a live service God of War game after some fantastic remakes, I just don't see it happening when most of these studios lack the overall experience in the multiplayer live service space.
What are they going to say or do to big boss Jim Ryan when he asks them to? No? It's going to most likely be them nodding their head and agreeing incase there's any potential threat of being replaced by someone more compliant.
Shu literally just told us yesterday that Jim gave him a choice with his own position, either manage their Indie push or leave so imagine what he'd have done to a studio head saying "No thanks, I don't want to do live service". You think Jim is going to make a plan to get 12 live service games out by 2026 and give their studios a choice? I highly doubt it as they'd have never planned 12 to start with.
I... have a very hard time believing that. There's no way that every PS studio coincidentally wanted to work on live service games all of a sudden, when nearly none of them had any experience with that. That's so far fetched. I understand that Shu may have been told that, but I don't think it's true.
Yoshida San you are one of the people I most respect in this industry and to be honest I’m not sure what’s going on in your mind for saying something like that.
Sony may not have forced but may have also not given much choice, or may have hinted at the kind of projects that would most likely get green-lit.
We can choose all the words we want but when the end result is the same then I’m inclined to believe Sony wanted this and I’m glad it’s looking like a shot in the foot and I hope that shot hurts, burns and lingers, so they remember what made their games great and go back to that pronto!
Funny how everything this guy has said besides this in the last few articles have been treated as gospel but this one comment its all "yeah i don't believe that"
Shuhei Yoshida says the launch of Xbox games on PS5 is a "victory" for PlayStation owners, offering access to previously unavailable titles.
While I agree on
• “Looking at the install base of Xbox, I think it’s natural to understand what they’re doing.”
I still can't help myself and personally view
• “I think it’s a win for PlayStation owners. They’re going to access to games they didn’t previously have access to,”
a bit differently.
Microsoft today owns +20 former multiplatform IPs that came with many of their acquisitions.
It ain't a stretch to conclude now that today, other than compared 10 years ago, Microsoft indeed publishes more games on Playstation. But IPs to which Playstation (and Xbox too, actually) have had access to even before.
But then of course there are IPs like Forza, Grounded, SoT or Age of Mythology, that were or now are going to be premieres on Playstation.
More games are always a win if they are not bad. I bought Killer Instinct and Halo Collection years ago on Steam and for both games a PS5 version would mean more players. ..and hopefully a new Killer Instinct someday. Most new MS games however won't be bought from me on any system.
I'm looking forward to playing Forza Horizon 5 on PS5. I've got a Series S and played the game through Game Pass, but I haven't been subbed to that for a long time. Loved the game itself a lot though and will definitely be purchasing it. I purchased Hi-Fi Rush as soon as it came to PS5 as well, again after playing it and loving it on Game Pass.
R. I. P. sorry to hear that. I wonder if this Sony exclusive was some of his last work. I will enjoy it.
Not good , 49 is not old , so too soon
RIP man. Way too young for this to happen :L
R.I.P.
Persona 5 curse? Just like the omen