Sirius Studio Announced, Co-Founded By Bloodborne, Demon's Souls Producer

A new game development studio called Sirius Studio has been announced. It is co-founded by Teruyuki Toriyama, the producer behind a series of beloved titles like Bloodborne, Demon’s Souls, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Soul Sacrifice. The new studio will develop major titles for home consoles as well as VR and XR games. 

Besides Teruyuki Toriyama, who is the CPO and General Producer, the other co-founders are Executive Vice President Irie Hideki and Executive Officer and Producer Okamura Hikaru, who were all previously working at Thirdverse. According to the interview with Famitsu (via VGC), Thirdverse's new focus was to produce casual games; while they were a team that united to "produce high-end games," that's why they decided to go independent.

Irie said that the "number one priority was our independence" (Google Translated), so the team had discussed this part carefully with the parent company, Gz Group, which understands what the team wants to achieve and "respects us as creators."

Speaking of the new studio's focus, whose slogan is "creating games that shine the hearts of users," Irie stated that their "philosophy is to create a world-class development studio." Therefore, they will not be actively involved in publishing. 

When asked if their debut title, which usually doesn't take very long for a newly established studio, would also be high-end, Irie gave a confirmation answer, saying they plan to create high-end or non-indie games for home consoles, which will have "a certain scale" and use the team's strengths. 

Meanwhile, an unignorable fact is that the market for VR and XR has been expanding, and Okamura said that more than 30% of teenagers living in the United States have VR headsets. This is a great opportunity with potential, so they'll also be working on VR/XR content and games, targeting the North American market.