Tag Archives: Shuhei Yoshida
Mon, Aug 01, 2011 | 18:31 BST
Square Enix CEO and Yoshida among TGS 2011 keynote speakers
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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Posted in: TGS 2011
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida, yoichi wada
Tue, Jul 12, 2011 | 11:56 BST
Sony: Gaming industry “will stall” if we don’t support garage devs
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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Posted in: PS3, Sony, Vita, indie
Tags: garage developers, indie games, Shuhei Yoshida
Fri, Jul 08, 2011 | 17:56 BST
Yoshida: Vita’s price point of $249 was the goal from “the very, very beginning”
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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Posted in: Development, Sony, Vita, hardware
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Fri, Jul 08, 2011 | 00:20 BST
Vita to be Sony’s “easiest” and best supported platform for devs
Sony has learned from its experience with the development-unfriendly PlayStation 3, and made the Vita as accessible as possible.
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Posted in: Development, Sony, Vita, hardware
Tags: michael denny, Richard Lee, Shuhei Yoshida
Wed, Jun 22, 2011 | 09:50 BST
Yoshida: Vita rear touch-pad originally rejected
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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Posted in: Sony, Vita
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Worldwide Studios
Wed, Jun 22, 2011 | 04:42 BST
Yoshida: Sony was “too happy” with the PSP
Sony won’t make the mistake of complacency with the PSP, according to worldwide studios head Shuhei Yoshida, and won’t repeat it with Vita.
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Posted in: Sony, Vita, hardware
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Wed, Jun 08, 2011 | 09:57 BST
Sony: Wii U will inspire PS Vita devs to experiment
SCE Worldwide Studios lead Shuhei Yoshida has told Develop that he is interested in Nintendo’s recently announced Wii U, and that it’s likely to inspire developers to carry out experiments for PS Vita.
Wed, Jun 08, 2011 | 08:19 BST
Yoshida: $249 Vita pricepoint aimed at from day one
SCE WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that it was looking for a $249 price-point for PlayStation Vita from the first day it had gone into concept.
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Posted in: E3 2011, Sony, Vita
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Mon, Jun 06, 2011 | 00:13 BST
Yoshida: Sony ‘comfortable’ with NGP price point
Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has said he’s confident the NGP’s price won’t seem unreasonable to gamers, and reiterated that the portable has no direct competition.
Fri, Jun 03, 2011 | 03:51 BST
Sony: “We can’t” compete with smartphones
Shuhei Yoshida has said Sony learned its lesson from the PSP’s modest feature base, and is going for gold with the NGP – but not, apparently, by chasing the smartphone dollar.
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Posted in: NGP, Sony, hardware
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Sat, Mar 05, 2011 | 23:57 GMT
Yoshida “excited to see what kinds of games,” small developers create for PS Suite
Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has said that not only as NGP been in development since “beginning of 2008,” right around the time rumors starting trickling out, but that both triple-A “short form games” are in the works for the new handheld.
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Posted in: Development, NGP, Sony, hardware
Tags: PlayStation Suite, PS Suite, Shuhei Yoshida
Tue, Feb 15, 2011 | 15:25 GMT
Sony dropped XMB from NGP for touch screens and the “social networking factor”
Sony has said it dropped the XMB user interface from NGP so that touch screens controls could be added to the handheld along with allowing users access to “the social neworking factor.”
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Posted in: NGP, Sony
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Fri, Feb 11, 2011 | 12:52 GMT
Yoshida: Sony to confirm final NGP name “later this year”
SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed that NGP will get its more formal name at some point this year.
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Posted in: NGP, Sony
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | 22:10 GMT
Shuhei Yoshida says more western developed games for PSP2 will be announced at E3
Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior vice president of product development, had plenty to say about PSP2, a.k.a. NGP, today during the firm’s unveiling of the handheld in Tokyo. An in the video interview with Gamespot posted below the break, he tells the site that the games shown during today’s event are just a taste of what’s to come.
Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | 21:30 GMT
Sony: PSP2 will not support 3D, will talk about extra services “later”
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Kotaku that when the firm finally announces a price for PSP2, “people will say it makes sense.”
Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | 14:38 GMT
Uncharted PSP2 gets shown off at Tokyo event
GameSpot’s gone live with a direct-feed capture of this morning’s Uncharted demo for PSP2.
SCE WWS boss Shuhei Yoshida was there on stage demoing it live, as the new handheld, codenamed, NGP, got its debut in Tokyo. Watch it below the break.
Uncharted is one of many first-party titles coming to the platform, including LBP and Killzone.
Mon, Sep 20, 2010 | 16:29 BST
PSP “getting a bit old,” says Yoshida
Looks like PSP is set to join that gaming retirement home, if comments from SCE WorldWide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida are an indication.
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 | 19:17 BST
Shuhei Yoshida pleased with Move, Microsoft reinvesting in Japan
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, has said he is very pleased with Move’s reception at TGS, and he was also pleased to see some familiar faces at Microsoft’s presentation.
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Posted in: Development, PlayStation Move, Sony, TGS 2010, hardware
Tags: Shuhei Yoshida
Fri, Jul 09, 2010 | 21:01 BST
Sony’s not “losing money” with Move, says Yoshida
Sony studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said the firm’s treating Move as if it’s the launch of a new platform.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, PS3, PlayStation Move, Sony, hardware
Tags: Move Uk price, Shuhei Yoshida
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