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Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says he "had no choice" but to take a job overseeing indie games


Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has said he took the job overseeing indie games for PlayStation because he "had …

In an interview with Venturebeat, Yoshida discussed his 30+ year career at PlayStation, including his move in 2019 from president of SIE Worldwide Studios to overseeing a new initiative focused on independent developers. When I started that work five years ago, our indie partners would say that when they released their games multiplatform, the Switch version would sell three to five times more than PlayStation. Yoshida discussed his beginnings at Sony, courting companies like Square Enix and Namco to move development to PlayStation, and his own work on games like Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo.

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