It's been four years since Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios was founded -- and as president Shuhei Yoshida sees it, it's played an indispensable role in developing the PlayStation 3's game library.
"It's been four years since Worldwide Studios was founded," Yoshida said in an interview with Famitsu magazine this week. "Up to that point, Japan, America and Europe had their own regional creative teams -- they were all separate mid-sized publishers, in a way. With the PlayStation 3, though, the scope of games was vastly broadened, and the skills and costs required to create them made things a great deal more complex. It became difficult for these somewhat separated publishers to make good titles by themselves, and so we merged them as part of our strategy to create games with the entire world in mind."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
S2Killinit
live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
Software head...
LOL that sounds funny. I agree though as the $299 price point opens the psychological flood gate for people who want a PS3.
EDIT
------
Yea it's a very tough choice to choose between games like Uncharted 2 and Demons Soul. I may just have a few months to play them all.
Thank YOU!
Thank you so very much!
Ive been playing videogames non stop since atari 2600!
Im 30 years old now and my household is game culture all the way!
My girl plays, my son plays, all my friends and i play everyday.
This is the best generation ive have participated in all thanks to Sonys risk taking moves and bringing these games i used to dream about becoming a reality. Better than anything i have thought of.
I still feel like im playing the first wave of ps3 games and i cant imagine what the next wave of games are going to play like.
Thank you!
...OF GAMING!!! ;-P
hell yea go sony go!! lol my god why are they so good with games thank you sony for the best experience in gaming.
the ps3 is gonna end as an succesfull, beloved console....like ps1 and 2.....mark my words.
I predict a 50 million install base on the ps3 by spring 2011.