Sony Are Keen For Their Japan Studio To Start PS3 Development.

Aside from the odd title here or there - Siren: Blood Curse, Trash Panic, Eye Of Judgement - a lot of Sony's Studio Japan output has been on PSP over the past few years.

Sony Worldwide Studios honcho Shuhei Yoshida is fully aware of this, explaining "their focus was shifted onto the PSP, which reflects the success of the PSP as a platform in Japan ... It's completely opposite of the way how US and European teams moved onto working on the PS3 and we see the fruits of those efforts, while Japan studios shifted their focus onto the PSP."

That's about to change though. With Gran Turismo 5 and The Last Guardian already set to launch in 2010, Yoshida was keen to hint that Studio Japan are now readying themselves for a Playstation 3 onslaught. "We are now re-energizing teams and coming up with new ideas for PS3 development," Yoshida said. "We'll be able to show fruits of this work sometime next year."

We expect next year's Tokyo Game Show, GamesCom and E3 to have a couple of Studio Japan gems, and we can't wait.