In a interview with Kikizo, Eric Boltjes and Angie Smets talked about the cancelled projects Eight Days and The Getaway. It seems that prior to Shuhei Yoshida appointment the project was already scrapped. The news just came out at the same time as the change of power at the head of the company.
Well, I would say Eight Days and The Getaway were already cancelled – we have this process of “green light” meetings… for every project we have these different meetings to see how the project is doing.
But that didn’t mean that these projects were already in production phase as some thought.
Oh no, they were still at prototype phase. That’s the right moment to decide to hold these kinds of meetings, if you do for a game that’s almost done it’s obviously too late to have a look at it!
We hope that PlayStation fans will now have a better opinion about Shuhei Yoshida.
As you know Phil Harrison left Sony Computer Entertainment and went to Atari. Shuhei Yoshida will replace Phil Harrison and from the 16th of May he will be president of SCE Worldwide Studios.
So what sort of experience does Yoshida have in store for us?
“Yoshida has been with SCEI since 1993, and was an initial member of the PlayStation business, according to a Sony statement. In 1996, he became producer of the product development department, and in 2000, joined SCEA as VP of product development.”
“Under the leadership of Yoshida, who has proven track record in managing creative talent, SCE WWS will accelerate the software development for the PlayStation 3 and PSP platforms and vigorously expand the gaming market.”
Read more about this here.