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Former PlayStation boss says Nier Automata "revived" the Japanese games industry and convinced developers to stop chasing overseas trends

Shuhei Yoshida thinks too many Japanese developers were chasing global trends in the PS3 era

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Beloved PS1 JRPG Legend of Dragoon wasn't meant to be a Final Fantasy 7 killer, Super Mario RPG's battle designer just said "I want to make a new RPG"

"No one told us to make any kind of game. We wanted to make this game."

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Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says the PlayStation marketing team had to completely redesign Crash Bandicoot in PS1 commercials because he was too ugly for the Japanese market

Late '90s body shaming was tough for Crash Bandicoot

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Why are we getting so many PlayStation PC ports? Former president says it's 'like printing money'

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has discussed the rise of PlayStation PC ports.

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"It's almost like printing money": Former Sony exec says PC ports of PlayStation games are too valuable to ignore, and he wanted to see more first-party games come to PC

Shuhei Yoshida says he pushed for PC ports before Sony fully supported the idea

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Former Sony exec finally says the quiet part out loud: putting PlayStation games on PC is 'almost like printing money'

Server bank.

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Former PlayStation boss says Microsoft's decision to bring Xbox games to PS5 is 'a win for PlayStation owners'

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has praised Microsoft's multi-platform push, calling it "a win" for PlayStation users.

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FromSoftware didn't work with Sony on Dark Souls because of how the company failed Demon's Souls, says ex-PlayStation boss: "We definitely dropped the ball"

It seems to have learned its lesson now

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Cancelled The Last of Us Online game was "great," but former PlayStation exec says Naughty Dog had to scrap it after Bungie told them how much work it would be

Shuhei Yoshida spills the beans on the multiplayer game set in the Last of Us universe

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"I thought PlayStation was finished": Former Sony boss says TV sales were the only thing that could save the company when the PS3 was "losing a billion dollars"

Hanging on for dear life

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Sony finally managed to pry Final Fantasy 7 away from Nintendo thanks to a "schmoozer" of a former employee who hung out with Square Enix executives at his parties, according to one former PlayStation boss

The Nintendo 64 sticking with cartridges over CDs certainly helped, too

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Sony was making a space shooter for its unreleased Nintendo PlayStation console, according to Shuhei Yoshida

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has revealed the first game for the unreleased Nintendo PlayStation console.

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We Finally Know How the PlayStation Got Its Name

PlayStation is one of the biggest entertainment brands in the world, but it turns out the iconic name was more of a coincidence

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Former PlayStation boss is hoping for ‘something that is still hidden to us’ to be revealed in the Nintendo Switch 2 direct to make the console more exciting

A former PlayStation boss wasn’t surprised by the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and hopes there’s something more exciting in store.

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The PlayStation got its iconic name after legendary lead Ken Kutaragi saw how PCs were called "workstations," reveals Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida

But Sony USA wasn't impressed

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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto once asked ex-PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida his thoughts on Star Fox Zero on Wii U, and well, we've all been there: "Should I say my honest reaction?"

Star Fox Zero may not have been the best demo game for the Wii U

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Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida reveals PlayStation's first video game: an FMV space shooter for Nintendo that was "almost finished"

Another game for the Nintendo PlayStation has been revealed

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Ex-PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says Switch 2 "could have been a larger reveal" and "the only surprise to me was that mice thing that they showed"

Yoshida was "surprised there were not many surprises"

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PlayStation icon Shuhei Yoshida says a normal publisher would've canceled The Last Guardian, but even when it was running at 10-15 FPS on PS3 he insisted "we have to release it"

It's something of a miracle that we have The Last Guardian

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'You can’t plan a success in this industry': Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says he would've 'tried to resist' the company's ill-fated march towards live service gambles

"I'm sure they knew it's risky."

PC Gamer

Retired PlayStation exec reckons Bloodborne PC hasn't happened because Miyazaki 'cannot do it himself, but he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it'

"That’s my theory, and the PlayStation team respects his wish."

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"Single-player games now cost so much" which is why you need to buy remasters so PlayStation can "keep investing in great new games" according to ex-Sony president

Gotta keep the lights on somehow

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PlayStation legend Shuhei Yoshida says the Vita failed because a lot of technical choices "weren't good ones" and Sony couldn't support PS4 at the same time

Several mistakes led to its demise

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PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida says he's surprised by Horizon Forbidden West's success compared to Zero Dawn's own: "I was hoping that the sequel would do even better"

The game was still "bigger and great"

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Bloodborne isn't getting a remaster because FromSoftware's Miyazaki is "so busy" and "doesn't want anyone else to touch it," theorizes PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida

Almost 10 years have passed since Bloodborne first released

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