An interview with Shuhei Yoshida, who led PlayStation Studios from 2008-2019 and left Sony on January 15, on his 31 years at PlayStation, early days, and more
Shu Yoshida has graduated. He just completed 38 years at Sony, including 31 years at PlayStation, and he completed …
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Gameranx
Dennis Patrick
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Shuhei Yoshida Feels The PS6 Could Release In 2028
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@podcastnow23
@podcastnow23
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What an absolute joke. A legend in Shuhei Yoshida, who was there since the PS1. Was told to take the Indies Job or get the hell out. How disrespectful do you get?
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@fromsoftserve
@fromsoftserve
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Shuhei Yoshida will be remembered. Jim Ryan will be forgotten.
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@scrubsquad115
@scrubsquad115
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@SenranHime97 What was said before, too, about Shuhei Yoshida being made to either do an indie job or leave just shows how much of a scum bag Jim Ryan actually was glad he's gone
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@stealth40k
@stealth40k
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Shuhei Yoshida said he had no choice but to take the PlayStation Indie role. “Moving from first-party to indies? Well, I had no choice. When Jim asked me to do the indie job, the choice was to do that or leave the company. But I felt very strongly about the state of [image]
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@genki_jpn
Genki
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Shuhei Yoshida says Hironobu Sakaguchi and Square tried to convince Nintendo to use CDs for the N64! “Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, loved the potential of CDs. His dream was to create a movie-like Final Fantasy game. He was disappointed when he learned that [i…
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@nextgenplayer
Hunter
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Jim Ryan forced Shuhei Yoshida to take the PlayStation Indies role Shuhei says “He had no choice. It was take that indie job or leave the company.” See more: https://venturebeat.com/... [image]
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@hylianh3ro
@hylianh3ro
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@Genki_JPN It's crazy how developers have to keep pushing Nintendo to do better,this is like how Capcom had to push Nintendo to do 4GB RAM in the Switch, at least Nintendo listened that time.