Shuhei Yoshida, former president of Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment, has revealed that Nintendo and Xbox every orchestrated the 2 scariest moments of his lengthy profession at PlayStation.
Yoshida instructed MinnMax that the discharge of the Xbox 360 one 12 months earlier than the PlayStation 3 was “very, very scary,” as those that thought-about ready for Sony’s console could be nicely behind in tasting the subsequent technology of video video games.
But Yoshida stated “the most important shock I had from an announcement from the competitors” was when Nintendo introduced that Monster Hunter 4 was going to be a 3DS unique. “That was the most important shock,” he stated.
Monster Hunter was a colossal hit on the PlayStation Portable, to the purpose the place it had two unique video games, however Yoshida had no concept Nintendo had secured this new sport for its personal console. To make issues worse, it then slashed the worth of the 3DS by $100, placing it nicely under the PlayStation Vita.
“After launch, each Nintendo 3DS and Vita had been $250 however they dropped $100,” Yoshida stated. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my god’. And [then they] introduced the most important sport… The greatest sport on PSP was Monster Hunter. And that sport goes to come back out on Nintendo 3DS solely. I used to be like, ‘Oh no.’ That was the most important shock.”
Yoshida retired in January after greater than three a long time with Sony, the place he grew to become a face of the PlayStation model and was beloved by followers worldwide. His not being with the corporate has allowed Yoshida to share some beforehand unheard perception comparable to this, nevertheless.
Yoshida has additionally stated how he’d have tried to withstand Sony’s embattled dwell service push and even given his two cents on why it will not make a remake or sequel to cult traditional Bloodborne.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
