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Shuhei Yoshida looks back at 31 years at Sony PlayStation | exit interview


Shu Yoshida left Sony on January 15. He spent 38 years at Sony, including 31 years at PlayStation, and managed many of its big hits.

That’s why they licensed the Super Nintendo add-on project to Sony in the first place, because they believed CD-ROM was just too slow to ever make for a good game system. But then, in March or April, SCEA did their deal with Universal Interactive, Mark Cerny’s company, to globally publish Crash Bandicoot as a first-party game. 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.

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