Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has said he would have tried to resist Sony’s controversial live service video game push. Yoshida, who was President of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony Interactive Entertainment from 2008 to 2019,

Pursuing live service games is risky, especially for Sony, after the failure of Concord and server shutdown. Sony president Hiroki Totoki aims to approach live service games with caution to avoid repeating the Concord disaster.

Shuhei Yoshida (aka ‘Shu’) has left Sony, closing a near 32-year chapter of his life with the company. Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th,

Yoshida appears as a playable character in the PlayStation version of Super Time Force Ultra. Super Time Force Ultra is another game with a personal, though altogether different, connection to Yoshida.

Some PS5 fans have been a little frustrated by Sony's output over the last few years, with what feels like fewer brand new games and an increase in remasters and remakes. While that's an understandable frustration, ex-PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida says these projects are necessary to allow first-party teams to keep making original titles.

In November, we reported that one of the greatest PlayStation veterans, Shuhei Yoshida, had decided to leave Sony after 31 years with the company. Today he is unemployed (by his own admission) and outside of Sony's walls he suddenly has entirely new opportunities to talk about his time with PlayStation more openly.

Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has discussed why the company's PS Vita handheld didn't sell well, stating Sony didn't have the resources to split between two platforms but originally it had similar capabilities to Nintendo's Switch.

It is one of the biggest conundrums in the video game industry: why hasn’t Sony followed up Bloodborne with… anything? A remaster (Sony loves a remaster)? A sequel? A next-gen update? Fans of FromSoftware’s PlayStation 4 masterpiece have begged for more ever since the game launched to critical and commercial acclaim a decade ago.