Former Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida has revealed that he was the choice by ex-PlayStation boss Jim Ryan to transition from first-party to indie projects or leave the company altogether.
Speaking with VentureBeat about moving from working on bigger games to fronting PlayStation’s indie efforts, Yoshida-san made it clear that he didn’t really have a choice to make the transition if he wanted to remain with Sony.
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Moving from first-party to indies? Well, I had no choice. When Jim asked me to do the indie job, the choice was to do that or leave the company. But I felt very strongly about the state of PlayStation and indies. I really wanted to do this. I believed I could do something unique for that purpose. That was the bigger change for me personally, moving from first-party to indies, than leaving the company this year. I’m very lucky that the indie community, the publishers and developers I work closely with-they believed that they could use my help.
Yoshida has been very forthcoming since leaving Sony about his time with the company, recently stating in separate interviews that the PlayStation manufacturer’s first game was a space shooter for its cancelled Nintendo PlayStation collaboration. He also revealed that The Last Guardian would have probably been cancelled had Sony not been its publisher, and admitted that Sony’s TV business saved the company when it generated huge losses during the PS3 launch period.
[Source – VentureBeat]
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