Why the PS3 has a mandatory hard drive
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida explains why Sony decided against Xbox 360’s optional hard drive and that a mandatory hard was to provide seamless gameplay and solid digital distribution for every Playstation 3 owner.
“It’s one of the things we really supported when the hardware specification was decided for PS3,”
“Like Microsoft did, we could have [...]
LittleBigPlanet will be the biggest title for Sony this year
Shuhei Yoshida, Sony worldwide studios boss has been speaking with VG247 and had predicted that LittleBigPlanet will be the biggest PS3 game this year ib a global level. Won’t it be THE biggest game this year across all platforms?
“LittleBigPlanet is going to be the biggest title for Sony in all markets this year,”
“History tells us [...]
Sony to carry on developing PSN for free
Sony has been developing and adding new services to the Playstation Network and best of all for FREE. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios has confirmed that Sony is looking to extend and bring new features in for PSN.
“We’re more open about approaching and bringing services in to PS3 and PSP,”
“We can’t support all [...]
Yoshida explains lack of third party support
The replacement to Phil Harrision as the president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida explains the lack of third party development and admits the truth.
“Sometimes we struggle to convince them (third-party publishers) to put more resources into the PS3.”,
Metal Gear Solid 4 is the first big AAA exclusive title to hit the Playstation 3, BUT [...]
Development will favour PS3 in 2009
The new president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida says that third party development will favour the Playstation 3 next year. Yoshida spoke with GamesIndustry.biz admitting that the PS3’s launch was disappointing because third party developers had to build their games based upon the Xbox 360’s architecture as Microsoft’s hardware was released earlier.
Yoshida stated:
“…They must [...]
Eight Days and The Getaway cancelled
These two games, Eight Days and The Getaway are both cancelled. Eight Days was a great looking game, in fact, click here to see a video of it. The Getaway, well i wasn’t really into The Getaway games so that doesn’t bother me much but i’m sorry its made a lot of Playstation 3 owners [...]
New president of SCE Worldwide Studios named
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 [...]
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