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News Sony: We're Not Just Going to Reveal Everything We're Doing
Yoshida weighs in on top-secret titles
The expectation from PlayStation press conferences is wild at times – and websites like ours probably don't help, even though we always endeavour to keep our predictions as level headed as possible. Speaking as part of an interview with Kinda Funny Games, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has...
News Sony Doesn't Want to Show You Too Much of The Last Guardian
It'll spoil it, apparently
The Last Guardian has gone dark again. The game was re-revealed to a rapturous response at E3 2015, but it was absent at both the Tokyo Game Show and Paris Games Week. This, according to Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, is nothing to worry about – the platform holder's just limiting the title's showings...
News Yoshida: There Are Many PS4 Exclusives in Development
In fact, he's lost count
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida signs off on every PlayStation 4 exclusive – but there's so much in development that the affable executive's lost count. Speaking on PlayStation France's Twitter account, he pointed out that there are around 30 to 50 titles that the platform holder's got its fingerprints on...
News So, Is Sony Working on an Exclusive PS4 JRPG?
Shu says no
There have long been rumours swirling around that Sony has some sort of Japanese role-playing game in development. The whispers first began months ago, and they keep popping up from time to time. Of course, it goes without saying that an exclusive JRPG would certainly be something to get excited about, so we can see why these rumours...
News Engineers Working to Enable Online Notifications in Future PS4 Firmware Update
At Long Last just logged in
Sony recently sent out a survey regarding future PlayStation 4 firmware update features, and it mentioned the oft-requested online notifications. Now, speaking on PlayStation France's Twitter account, Worldwide Studio's president Shuhei Yoshida has hinted that the functionality may
News Yoshida: PlayStation VR Is Not Another PS Move, 3D TV
The start of another 20 years of great progress
We've tried PlayStation VR and have been pretty impressed with the experience so far, but the big worry – as with any peripherals that Sony creates – is that it won't get the kind of support that it deserves. Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida isn't concerned about that, though, because he...
News Sony Bend's PS4 Exclusive Is the Studio's Biggest Ever
And it's awesome, apparently
Sony Bend has been a part of the Worldwide Studios furniture for a long time, creating franchises such as Syphon Filter, while also expanding upon existing ones like Resistance. However, ever since the release of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, the company has been quiet. The question on everyone's lips, then, is just what is...
News Sony: Paris Games Week Presser Will Be Positioned Similarly to Gamescom
Expect lots of announcements
Sony skipped Gamescom earlier in the year, but don't worry, as it's planning a similarly scaled press conference for Paris Games Week a little later in the month. Speaking on the latest episode of PS I Love You XOXO, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida suggested that we can expect comparable announcements to those...
News Sony Admits PS4 Exclusive Until Dawn Was a Sleeper Hit
Slasher success
There's a bit of revisionist history going on with Until Dawn at the moment. The game has been hugely successful for Sony – both critically and commercially – but with a bit more marketing there's no doubt that it could have been an even bigger success. As such, armchair analysts believe that the platform holder missed a trick...
News Don't Hold Your Breath for a New PlayStation Handheld
Climate is not healthy right now
Sony's more or less ruled out the possibility of a new portable PlayStation platform, as Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida told an audience at EGX 2015 this week that the market "climate is not healthy" for dedicated handheld gaming devices right now. Quizzed by a fan on whether the PlayStation Vita could...
TGS 2015 Good Grief! Sony Has More PS4 Exclusives to Show
It never ends
Remember that scene from The Simpsons where one Krusty Burger mascot is mauling another, and a little kid screams, "Stop! Stop! He's already dead!" That's how we're starting to feel about the PlayStation 4 in regards to its console competition, because after an admittedly slow start the system is like a raging inferno right about now...
News Sony Lines Up Stellar EGX 2015 Offering
Uncharted! Project Morpheus! PSone! Shuhei Yoshida!
Sony rarely ever skips video game conventions – and it's planning to descend upon EGX 2015 later this year in a pretty major way. The headline for attendees of the Birmingham convention will be the appearance of Shuhei Yoshida, as the Worldwide Studios executive will star as part of a panel about...
News Watch Sony's Shuhei Yoshida Eat a Very Hot Chili Pepper Like a Pro
Oh, and Nuclear Throne's coming to PS4
You can always count on president of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida to provide plenty of entertainment, and he's done it again with his latest escapade, which involves him eating a habanero pepper while trying to talk about indie title Nuclear Throne coming to PlayStation platforms. Yes, it's just about...
News Sony: We Like to Have a Balance of Sequels and Risky Concepts in Our First-Party Portfolio
Yoshida explains Japanese giant's approach to exclusives
Shuhei Yoshida, the president of Sony's Worldwide Studios network, is one of the most powerful people in gaming. Not only does he have an enormous Twitter following, but he's also in charge of every first-party project that deploys on a PlayStation platform. That means that he's responsible...
News Sony: PlayStation TV Is Hard to Explain
Live and learn
PlayStation TV was always an odd product; it was very niche in its capabilities, but never did anything particularly well. It's no surprise, then, that the peripheral sold rather poorly. Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's Worldwide Studios, seems to agree with us. "It didn't capture the consumers' imaginations," the executive...
News Sony: We Aren't Making Vita Games Because of Consumer Expectations
Say what?
Don't hold your breath for any big budget PlayStation Vita games. Sony stopped seriously supporting the handheld long ago, but its executives are getting to a point where they're so blunt it hurts. Speaking to Game Informer, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that the real reason the Vita isn't being supported is because...
News Yoshida Wants to See 'Something Scary' Like P.T. on Project Morpheus
Gulp
We still maintain that Konami's creepy P.T. was one of the best PlayStation 4 games of 2014, so we're with Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida on the subject of a similar release for Project Morpheus. Speaking in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, the affable executive explained that ports don't really work in...
Weirdness Sony's Shuhei Yoshida Shows His Dark Side
Out for blood
Good old Shuhei Yoshida's never one to turn down some social media fun. Sony's likeable executive almost always wears a smile on his face, but it would seem that he's also got a bit of a dark side. Posing in front of a Japanese Bloodborne stand, the usually cheery Worldwide Studios president attempts to pull a menacing expression...
News PSN Gets Attacked Every Single Day, Says Sony
"It's a constant battle"
Credit where credit's due: the PlayStation Network has been very stable these past few months. While there were regular outages over the holidays, we're yet to report on any significant downtime in 2015, which is, of course, the way that it should be. Spare a thought, however, for the engineers working hard to make that...
News Happy Birthday to Sony Executive Shuhei Yoshida
Many happy returns
Are we doing birthday notices now? Gosh, this site's gone right down the pan – we'll be posting pictures of DualShock-themed tables on Twitter next. Still, we suppose that Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida is just about big enough to have his date of birth acknowledged on these hallowed pages – after all, he has...
News It Sounds Like Shuhei Yoshida Is As Tired of Annualised Franchises As You Are
Yawn
Good old Shuhei Yoshida, eh? The Sony executive has no doubt gained a few new followers on Twitter today after news emerged that he isn't a massive fan of annualised franchises. Speaking at a DICE 2015 panel, Yoshida commented on the marketing and development of games, and how the process has changed over the years. Fortunately, IGN was in...
News PlayStation Executive Shuhei Yoshida Sure Is Proud of His Own Work
Reveals his top three PSone titles
Confidence is everything in life. Many possess the skills to succeed, but few have the execution to follow through. It’s unsurprising, then, that Shuhei Yoshida – the president of Sony’s colossal Worldwide Studios network, and subsequently one of the most important people in gaming – is particularly proud...
News Ask Shuhei Yoshida Anything in Special PlayStation Experience Panel
Where are all the exclusives?
“How do you cope with being badgered on Twitter by irritated fans 24/7?” That’s probably what we’d ask Sony Worldwide Studios suit Shuhei Yoshida given half the chance – and you’ll have an opportunity to pit your own queries to the popular president as part of the upcoming PlayStation Experience event in Las...
News Shuhei Yoshida Congratulated Phil Spencer Over Minecraft Acquisition
Building bridges
The console war may be painted as a fierce battleground on the web, but in reality, that’s not the case at all. We already know that Xbox chief Phil Spencer has a good relationship with many of PlayStation’s more popular executives – and that mutual respect runs both ways. In fact, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei...
News Not Even Sony Understands Why the PS4 Is Selling So Well
Commercial confusion
To say that the PlayStation 4 has been a success in its first nine or so months on the market is an understatement: it’s actually hit a figurative homerun. The console has already exceeded sales of 10 million units, making it one of the fastest selling video game machines ever launched. Even more impressively, the system was...
News Sony: PS Move Was Ahead of Its Time, But There's No Appetite for Motion Right Now
Project Morpheus will change that, reckons Shuhei Yoshida
Pop those PlayStation Move controllers in the cupboard: you’ll need them, but not right now. In a candid interview with Pocket-Lint, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has admitted that motion gaming is in a bit of a rut right now, and will stay that way until Sony’s virtual...
News Why Won't Sony Allow You to Subscribe to EA Access on PS4?
"It's a business matter"
Sony caused something of a hullabaloo recently when it said that EA Access – a subscription service similar to PlayStation Plus consisting solely of EA published titles – does not represent good value. The initiative – which is available now on the Xbox One – allows you to pay a monthly or annual fee in order to...
News Shu Yoshida Hopes Rise of the Tomb Raider Releases on PS4 Eventually
PlayStation executive shocked by reveal
You weren’t the only one surprised at Rise of the Tomb Raider’s exclusivity announcement during the Microsoft media briefing at Gamescom last week, as Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was also shocked to learn the news. In an interview with
Gamescom 2014 PS4 Titles to Take Centre Stage at the Tokyo Game Show
Japanese centric software a very important point
Sony’s shifting PlayStation 4 consoles at a record breaking rate, but in Japan, the format is a bit of a flop right now. That’s because, unlike in Europe and North America, the market doesn’t feel that there’s enough content to justify its existence, which means that it’s getting heavily...
Gamescom 2014 Wow, Sony Actually Cut PS4 Games from Its Press Conference
Too much content
Regardless of whether you loved it or hated it, Sony’s big Gamescom 2014 press conference was absolutely packed with content this week. The platform holder announced nine new titles during its presentation, while also providing updates on several other previously revealed ones. And in an interview with
News Uncharted Collection a 'Good Candidate' for PS4, but Sony Won't 'Flood the Market' with Remakes
Firm won't Sully reputation
While the PlayStation 4 may be garnering a bit of a reputation for re-releases, The Last of Us Remastered is the only real port currently in Sony's portfolio. Granted, the likes of Escape Plan and Sound Shapes did accompany the console at launch, but these seemed more like late additions to the platform holder’s...
News Sony: PS4's Christmas Lineup Compares 'Very, Very Well' to Xbox One
Greatness awaits
As with the PlayStation 3 before it, there’s an accelerating sentiment around the web that the PlayStation 4 lacks games. Despite new releases deploying on a weekly basis, many armchair analysts have opted to criticise the console’s first year – primarily its lack of first-party content. Many argue that Microsoft – with...
News Blimey, Only Four in Ten PlayStation Games Actually Make Money
Whelp
Many of us play video games, but very few of us can fully appreciate just how harsh the business surrounding our hobby can be. As it turns out, releasing a piece of interactive entertainment is an incredibly risky gambit, and in a recent interview, Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida revealed just how dicey the industry can get. "We...
News Shuhei Yoshida Doesn't Understand People Who Don't Like Indie Games
Neither do we
If the last two E3s are anything to go by, Sony's continued efforts to court indie developers are paying off. What's more, the Japanese giant seems pretty chuffed with this outcome, as Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida stated in a recent interview. "Almost every week you see an indie game coming out digitally on PS4. Some of...
News Sony: There Are 'Many, Many' First-Party PS Vita Games in Production
Panic over
The message coming out of E3 2014 last month was that Sony’s slowly moving on from the PlayStation Vita, but Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has clarified that that’s not the case at all. As part of an interview with Game Reactor, the affable executive put to bed reports that it was abandoning the handheld – and also came...
News Sony Apologises for Powers E3 2014 Press Conference Error
Owning up
As we outlined in a recent article, E3 press conferences are becoming increasingly odd. While we still very much refer to them as ‘media briefings’, the live streamed nature of these events mean that we’re becoming increasingly less tolerant of, well, anything that’s not game footage. As a consequence, Sony has been berated over...
News PS4 Firmware Updates Will Add Missing Features in the Future, Stresses Sony
Smells like system software updates
Sony appears to have taken your complaints about firmware updates from the previous generation a little too literally, as it is looking a little tardy with the PlayStation 4 right now. The next-gen console’s last major software overhaul deploy
News Sony: PS Vita Will Play Host to Fewer First-Party Releases in the Future
And so it begins
Sony hasn’t washed its hands of the PlayStation Vita by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s clear from its messaging coming out of E3 2014 that the company’s approach has changed. While it originally tried to brute force the device into homes with blockbusters such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss and
E3 2014 You Should Expect More PS4 Announcements at GamesCom and TGS
Sony's only getting started
Sony rarely shows its entire hand during a single press conference, and so you should already have expected it to make more PlayStation 4 announcements at GamesCom and the Tokyo Game Show later this year. However, in case you had any doubt, a jubilant Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has hinted in an interview...
News PS4 Executive Shuhei Yoshida Planning 'Very, Very Exciting' E3
All aboard
It’s fair to say that Sony’s been a little more muted than Microsoft since the release of the PlayStation 4 last year. While the Japanese giant’s console continues to sell exceptionally well, it’s counterpart has had to work a lot harder to drum up enthusiasm surrounding its box. That’s led to the Redmond-based manufacturer...
News Sony Very Nearly Disbanded Its Entire First-Party Development Division
Sucker punched
Sony’s internal development efforts have always been good, but it wasn’t until the latter half of the previous generation that it really started to transform its first-party products into major selling points. Titles such as Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and God of War III were not just great games, they were genre defining – and...
News PlayStation Maker Ken Kutaragi Complimented Shuhei Yoshida Twice
And that was more than most
Ex-PlayStation president Ken Kutaragi may be the ‘Father of PlayStation’, but he had a tenuous relationship with his employees at best. Speaking as part of a question and answer session conducted by PlayStation 4 architect Mark Cerny, Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida recalled the discussion that preceded his...
News Sony's Shuhei Yoshida Has Been Banned from Nintendo MiiVerse Twice
U do not deserve this
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida may maintain one of the busiest Twitter profiles in the industry, but the affable executive occasionally finds time to play games. Despite his lifelong ties to the PlayStation brand, however, the straight talking suit is a big fan of all of the current consoles – including the...
News How Did Sony's Shuhei Yoshida React to Facebook's Acquisition of Oculus VR?
The big question
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was in bed when news broke regarding Facebook’s surprise acquisition of Oculus VR – the company behind the popular PC-based virtual reality headset Oculus Rift. However, his day didn’t get off to bad a start when he switched on his computer and saw the furore. “I woke up that...
News Shuhei Yoshida Wants Western Indie Games to Be More Readily Available in Japan
Going global
Indie games have become an enormous part of the PlayStation brand. Whether it’s relatively big titles like Outlast or smaller timewasters like OlliOlli, there’s rarely a week that passes where Sony’s suite of systems don’t receive an independently developed release or two. However, a lot of this content stems from Western...
News PlayStation Executive Shuhei Yoshida Is Doing His Part to Help Wii U
Suit loves Super Mario 3D World
Much like the PlayStation Vita, the Wii U hasn’t enjoyed a particularly fruitful first year on the market. It took just 24 hours for the PlayStation 4 to surpass Nintendo’s next generation machine in the UK, and while things aren’t quite as bleak elsewhere, there’s no denying that the device has failed to...
News Shuhei Yoshida Reveals His Top Ten Games of the Generation
Our love for this man knows no bounds
In a recent episode of the PlayStation Blogcast, Sony's official brand mascot – and Worldwide Studios president – Shuhei Yoshida revealed his top ten games of the generation. The list, unsurprisingly, is exclusively populated with the platform holder's titles: 1. Journey 2. Demon’s Souls/Dark S
News Yoshida: Sony Bend's PS4 Game Will Make You Panic
Yoshida too scared to say anything about Sony Santa Monica
Uncharted PS4 aside, there weren’t many outrageous announcements during Sony’s big PS4 All Access launch livestream this week. However, one interesting snippet focused on Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, in which he was asked to give a one-word summary of some of the...
News Yoshida: The Last Guardian Sure Looks Pretty
Executive has played the mysterious game
Outside of the surprise announcement of a new Uncharted game, last night’s PlayStation 4 launch livestream didn’t quite live up to the epic scale that prior teases had promised. Nevertheless, while Sony opted to keep its first-party stu
News Yoshida: Early PS4 Reviews Disappointing, but Confidence Still High
Executive responds
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has reacted to the initial roster of PlayStation 4 reviews, telling our friends over at Games Industry.biz that he’s somewhat disappointed with the first batch of scores. Despite this, though, the mixed reaction hasn’t dampened the executive’s excitement for the impending...
