{"id":9749,"date":"2023-04-24T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/the-face-of-playstation-shuhei-yoshida-on-the-joy-and-future-of-video-games\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:39:27","slug":"the-face-of-playstation-shuhei-yoshida-on-the-joy-and-future-of-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/the-face-of-playstation-shuhei-yoshida-on-the-joy-and-future-of-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of PlayStation: Shuhei Yoshida on the joy and future of video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been at PlayStation since the beginning, and seen the games industry transform beyond recognition. He talks unlikely successes, AI, and gaming\u2019s future<\/p>\n<p>In early 1993, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony\u2019s nascent PlayStation division as a business development guy \u2013 the first member of the team who didn\u2019t have an engineering background. When he was working with Ken Kutaragi and the other architects of the original PlayStation, and later producing games from Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo alongside game development legends Mark Cerny and Kazunori Yamauchi, he freely admits that he could scarcely believe his luck. When I speak to him, on the eve of receiving Bafta\u2019s prestigious fellowship award for his contribution to video games, he still seems endearingly surprised by his own success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who have received [this award] before are all creators! Amazing, talented, genius people! I don\u2019t know how I fit in,\u201d he says. (Previous recipients of the award include Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima.) \u201cBut everybody says I deserve it, so I guess I deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/apr\/24\/shuhei-yoshida-playstation-video-games-sony-bafta-fellowship-award\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7cb6310f269a0dfea22bae79e237b1cecc221fcb\/233_0_5074_3044\/master\/5074.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=750e882475bf97aa8d6dd666ae3227ec\" title=\"The face of PlayStation: Shuhei Yoshida on the joy and future of video games\" \/>He\u2019s been at PlayStation since the beginning, and seen the games industry transform beyond recognition. He talks unlikely successes, AI, and gaming\u2019s future<br \/>\nIn early 1993, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony\u2019s nascent PlayStation division as a business development guy \u2013 the first member of the team who didn\u2019t have an engineering background. When he was working with Ken Kutaragi and the other architects of the original PlayStation, and later producing games from Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo alongside game development legends Mark Cerny and Kazunori Yamauchi, he freely admits that he could scarcely believe his luck. When I speak to him, on the eve of receiving Bafta\u2019s prestigious fellowship award for his contribution to video games, he still seems endearingly surprised by his own success.<br \/>\n\u201cThe people who have received [this award] before are all creators! Amazing, talented, genius people! I don\u2019t know how I fit in,\u201d he says. (Previous recipients of the award include Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima.) \u201cBut everybody says I deserve it, so I guess I deserve it.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been at PlayStation since the beginning, and seen the games industry transform beyond recognition. He talks unlikely successes, AI, and gaming\u2019s future In early 1993, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony\u2019s nascent PlayStation division as a business development guy \u2013 the first member of the team who didn\u2019t have an engineering background. 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