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The Vita’s really going to shine when it launches in the west according to SCE Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida, who claims Sony expected less enthusiasm in Japan.

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Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has admitted the firm missed a grand opportunity to publish FromSoftware’s Demon’s Souls in Europe and the US.

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Sony WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said The Last Guardian is still coming along nicely, but it’s making “slow progress.”

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Shuhei Yoshida has shared additional details on Sony’s Remote Play plans for Vita in the latest issue of Famitsu.

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We just can’t get enough of the PlayStation Vita, and it’s still several months away from release. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, every detail seems to make us want the handheld even more. Now, Sony has spoken up, admitting that there were some problems in the PS3 networking side of things, and promising that it’ll do better with Vita.

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Sony WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed PlayStation Vita will have an additional battery option which will extend the handheld’s charge.

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SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano has quipped that if you want to know the reason why Monster Hunter 4 is not heading to Vita, “ask Capcom.”

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The Tokyo Game Show is Japan’s first hands-on with its new star: PS Vita, which Sony credibly described as “an unprecedented interactive entertainment world”.

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At Sony’s Tokyo Game Show 2011 Vita spectacular, Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida demonstrated Vita’s improved remote play function – playing the PlayStation 3 version of Killzone 3 directly from the new handheld.

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Remember what we’ve seen about how the Wii U controller interacts with the base console – where the extra screen on the tablet either mimicks or complements what’s on the monitor? Today, we’ve learned that this is pretty much the way the PS Vita will interact with the PS3, using LittleBigPlanet as an example.

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Traditionally, Augmented Reality (AR) uses an AR marker or an AR card. The PS Vita does not. Discussed at today’s Tokyo Game Show keynote, Kissei Matsumoto explains that Sony’s upcoming handheld uses Wide Area AR – doing away with single cards and enabling multiple markers to create a wide player field.

…and that’s not the only thing in store.

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Sony WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that its learnt from the mistakes of its software line-up for PSP, saying it will offer a “continuous supply” of titles for Vita.

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Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has explained why the oft-requested cross-game chat isn’t possible on PS3, Turns out, the main reason has something to do with memory restrictions.

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Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida on dropping PS3 to £199, Media Molecule’s “totally new” project, The Last Guardian, Gran Turismo and the future of Move.

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Sony’s vision of gaming’s future includes “perfect” virtual characters indistinguishable from real people.

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CESA has announced the keynote speakers for this year iteration of Tokyo Game Show, confirming Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada and Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, among others, for the event.

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Innovation’s not dead. It’s just moved out of its ritzy bump-mapped mansion into a rustic forest cottage getaway. Or something. It’s smaller now, is what we’re saying – but no less important. In fact, according to SCE chief Shuhei Yoshida, the gaming industry absolutely needs smaller garage developers to simply stay alive – let alone thrive.

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Sony’s president of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has said the firm came up with the $249/€249 price point for Vita after the firm’s “difficult experience,” with PS3′s original cost to consumers which caused major backlash.

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Sony has learned from its experience with the development-unfriendly PlayStation 3, and made the Vita as accessible as possible.

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Sony WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that the rear touch-pad for PlayStation Vita was rejected initially at first.

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