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Is Sony funding Ikumi Nakamara’s new studio, ‘Unseen Studios’?

remember_spinal

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Ikumi Nakamura*


People wanted to know if sony was building up a japanese roster with their XDev team and I think Unseen Studios might be one of their targets. They haven’t mentioned any investors or publishers but their studio space is pretty swanky and expensive looking, like Kojima’s.





I’ve done some sluuuuuething and the evidence is starting to pile up. A timeline….

https://twitter.com/nakamura193/status/1179745813792088065?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1179745813792088065|twgr^495aa25cb55822d64c009bff1d97249e38b8942f|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/10/fans_want_ex-ghostwire_tokyo_director_ikumi_nakamura_to_join_sony










 
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Varteras

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I recall rumors floating around prior to the announcement of her own independent studio that she was possibly joining PlayStation in some capacity. I think maybe she had visited Santa Monica or one of their studios and maybe that's what started the rumors. Then they died down after Unseen was revealed. And now...

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remember_spinal

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Varteras said:
I recall rumors floating around prior to the announcement of her own independent studio that she was possibly joining PlayStation in some capacity. I think maybe she had visited Santa Monica or one of their studios and maybe that's what started the rumors. Then they died down after Unseen was revealed. And now...

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It would make more sense to me that sony would want another homegrown studio in Japan. This would be what Haven is to Canada for them
 
nial

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I hope so, I find it strange that Sony has NEVER had more than two Japanese studios. It's time for a change.
 
Varteras

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BennyBlanco said:
Uhh what tweets? By your logic she is just as likely being funded by Riot or Ubisoft who she tweets about all the time.



Whoa! Did Ubisoft fund her studio? Or is she basically a social media influencer who will post anything for engagement?
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Influencer GIF by Simply Social Media
 
remember_spinal

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BennyBlanco said:
Uhh what tweets? By your logic she is just as likely being funded by Riot or Ubisoft who she tweets about all the time.



Whoa! Did Ubisoft fund her studio? Or is she basically a social media influencer who will post anything for engagement?
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Or maybe the fact that she was at the playstation partner awards has Shu visiting the studio?

Also weird you’d refer to her as a social media influencer with that avatar
 
ChorizoPicozo

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BennyBlanco said:
Uhh what tweets? By your logic she is just as likely being funded by Riot or Ubisoft who she tweets about all the time.



Whoa! Did Ubisoft fund her studio? Or is she basically a social media influencer who will post anything for engagement?
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i don't think she is a social media influencer. it seems like she was doing networking with peers in the industry.
 
CamHostage

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nial said:
I hope so, I find it strange that Sony has NEVER had more than two Japanese studios. It's time for a change.
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Two independent studios, you mean, as in Polyphony Digital and another studio?

Because of course Sony until recently had Japan Studio, which from the very beginning of PlayStation developed games internally as well as produced with external development partners out of its Tokyo office. (Sony in Japan also currently operates Team Asobi, makers of the Astro-Bot games, so technically, it does have two studios in Japan right now, even if Asobi has not really flown on its own yet with an original title outside the Japan Studio housing.)

I do agree either way that Sony could use more Japanese studios on its roster. The expansion in the rest of the globe always made me hopeful that a Japanese answer to Naughty Dog or Guerrilla would happen some day, but it never did. With the closure of Japan Studio (which I adored but had a lot of production problems and ups-and-downs leading to its closure,) I am crossing my fingers that Sony will support and perhaps bring inside Japanese studios like Unseen or Bokeh, but so far none of that has happened.
 
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BennyBlanco

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remember_spinal said:
Or maybe the fact that she was at the playstation partner awards has Shu visiting the studio?

Also weird you’d refer to her as a social media influencer with that avatar
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She was also at a Ubisoft creator event and their offices in JP. Guess that settles it. Ubisoft must want a new japanese studio in their portfolio. I’m just out here sleuthing!

I’m not calling her an influencer to insult her. She just has a shitload of followers and posts industry people all the time. That e3 presentation made her an internet celebrity.
 
remember_spinal

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BennyBlanco said:


She was also at a Ubisoft creator event and their offices in JP. Guess that settles it. Ubisoft must want a new japanese studio in their portfolio. I’m just out here sleuthing!

I’m not calling her an influencer to insult her. She just has a shitload of followers and posts industry people all the time. That e3 presentation made her an internet celebrity.
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Again, 2019, im talking about now

You’re also kind of dismissing the fact that we know for a fact that ubisoft and riot aren’t going to be funding a japanese studio
 
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ParaSeoul

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I hope not,she's a hack and her game will be a disappointment,when the only reason you have a following is acting like a retard on stage it's hard to have high expectations. Tell me how she designed Bayonetta but what did she do after
 
Roman Empire

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I wish the studio stays independent and this is just her going around through the industry to promote her new studio and for networking. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
sankt-Antonio

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Why is OP not letting people know who this person is and why it could be of interest if a new audio is build around that person. Looking at the OP it’s an influencer.
 
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sankt-Antonio said:
Why is OP not letting people know who this person is and why it could be of interest if a new audio is build around that person. Looking at the OP it’s an influencer.
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Answered already in the thread:
GymWolf said:
The cringe weeb queen behind Tokyo ghostwire.
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If you want to know more about what she did:

Worked on Okami, Bayonetta, The Evil Within 1+2, Ghostwire Tokyo, E3 presentation made her a "celebrity" (thx to the simps) and now has her own dev team

She's like an instagram influencer showing herself with every game dev in any place of the world, not much else to add, she looks nice and all, but people overhype her as some sort of big game dev when there is no real reason yet
 
GymWolf

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EN250 said:
Answered already in the thread:


If you want to know more about what she did:

Worked on Okami, Bayonetta, The Evil Within 1+2, Ghostwire Tokyo, E3 presentation made her a "celebrity" (thx to the simps) and now has her own dev team

She's like an instagram influencer showing herself with every game dev in any place of the world, not much else to add, she looks nice and all, but people overhype her as some sort of big game dev when there is no real reason yet
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Nerds like real life waifu that act like cringe anime waifu:lollipop_grinning_sweat:
 
Yoboman

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Nah. She was freelancing after leaving Tango in 2019. So she's pictured with all those devs

Obviously got some capital to start Unseen a couple years ago

Shu visiting her is not unusual. Its literally his job to be forming relationships with Indies. Doesn't mean Sony is funding them
 
wipeout364

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She has a financial relationship with Ubisoft as she has been designing skins for Rainbow six siege for a few years now.

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yurinka

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Nah, she made a tour visiting many friend studios to get ideas for her studio. Yoshida may support some of the games of the studio in the same way they do with many other indie teams, but I don't see any hint of additional relationship here.

wipeout364 said:
She has a financial relationship with Ubisoft as she has been designing skins for Rainbow six siege for a few years now.

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No this was only a small collaboration where she designed a handful skins for Watchddogs Legion. They paid her for that, and that's all.

NikuNashi said:
The next Jade Raymond in the making, done very little, over hyped.
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Raymond created really fast and leaded multiple -not only one- super successful and super productive teams, produced multiple gaming history record breaking AAA new IPs plus super successful sequels. Her teams innovated in online games with The Sims Online, in open worlds with AC or in eSports and GaaS with Rainbow Six Siege to name a few. Plus also worked on a shit ton of super successful AAA games, developing several of them at the same time. Only a few people in the gaming industry achieved more than her on her production and studio management area. Companies like Ubisoft, EA, Google and Sony bet on her because of the results, not because of a pretty face.

None of the games where Nakamura was an art director was a big hit, she left (I'd say she wasn't fired) before competing the first game she was directing and now she is creating her first studio.
 
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BennyBlanco

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remember_spinal said:
Again, 2019, im talking about now

You’re also kind of dismissing the fact that we know for a fact that ubisoft and riot aren’t going to be funding a japanese studio
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4/5 of the tweets in the OP are from 2019 lmao. And how do we know that? Riot is spreading their wings and has a shitload of cash.
 
Aenima

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After she left Tango, she did a tour around a bunch of studios. After that she anounced the creation of her own studio. The only revelant pic is Shu Yoshida visiting her studio. Might not mean anything or might mean a possible partnership between Playstation and her 1st game as Yoshida is in charge of the indie division. But Yoshida also visit alot of ppl and places, so...
 
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