Brian Fleming, the co-founder and longtime studio head of PlayStation’s Ghost of Yotei studio, Sucker Punch, is stepping down from his place.
Beginning January 1, longtime artistic and technical leaders Jason Connell and Adrian Bentley will step into new roles as studio heads, Sony Interactive Leisure introduced on Tuesday.
Jason served as co-creative director on the Ghost franchise, and Adrian, as Technical Director, led the studio’s engineering and manufacturing efforts.
Sucker Punch has been a PlayStation first-party studio since 2000 and is thought for the Sly Cooper, InFamous, and Ghost of Tsushima.
Talking to VGC earlier this 12 months, Brian Fleming mentioned Sucker Punch’s upcoming 30th anniversary and the studio’s dedication to remain comparatively small in triple-A phrases.
“The reality is that no matter we do subsequent, whether or not it’s persevering with Ghost or going again to Sly, the choice is basically extra restricted by, once more, our cherishing of focus and time to iterate, which signifies that we actually can solely do one factor at a time,” he mentioned.
“If we have been good at juggling 4 tasks, yeah, we’d have a remaster, and let’s go do a kind of, and a kind of, and do some fan request, that might be actually fashionable.
“However we solely get to do one factor. So it sort of must be your greatest thought, proper? And that’s actually clarifying. It’s not like there aren’t 15 good concepts. However you solely get to do one. And by the way in which, you solely get to do one about each 5 years.
“In order that alternative is basically necessary. I imply, that’s selecting your school and your main each 5 years… that’s a very massive determination, so that you higher think twice about it.”
