gamasutra.com - 11/2/2009
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As Sony Computer Entertainment focused its time and resources on launching and supporting its flagship PlayStation 3, the company let support for the capable PSP fall by the wayside, admitted Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida in a recent Gamasutra interview. "We look at all the titles we are working on and try to see if there are any holes or areas where our focus isn't enough," he said as part of a ...
playstationlifestyle.net - 11/1/2009
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playstationlifestyle.net —
There is no denying that the PSP has
seen some major support this holiday season. First and...
third-party developers alike have been pumping out content for Sony’s handheld, but what about beyond this holiday season? According to Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios ...
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Unannounced PSP Games on the Horizon
playstationlifestyle.net - 10/31/2009
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playstationlifestyle.net —
With the majority of Sony’s first-party PS3 line-up
coming from Eastern developers from both North America and...
Europe, many have wondered where are all of the PS3 games coming from Sony Japan. Aside from Gran Turismo and the Last Guardian, the land of the rising sun has been rather ...
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Sony: New PS3 Games Coming from Japan in 2010
gamasutra.com - 11/2/2009
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Sony Worldwide Studios president Shu Yoshida took over
from Phil Harrison last year with a strong mandate...
-- Gamasutra talks to him about strategies for the motion controller, relationships with third parties, changing attitudes for PSP game ...
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Sony's Software Strategy: Shuhei Yoshida Speaks
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PS3 Caused Sony To Lose PSP Focus
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today —
SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has said that it is a challenge trying to balance software support for multiple platforms, acknowledging that Sony s previously PS3-heavy focus lead to a dearth of PSP software."We look at all the titles we are working on and try to see if there are any holes or areas where our focus isn't enough," he told Gamasutra of the company s software strategy. "A couple of years ago we clearly put too much focus on PS3 titles and that caused a lack of support for the PSP last year. So we need to be focused and gear a lot of our resources ...
Sony: Blame PS3 for lack of PSP games
Destructoid —
... "We look at all the titles we are working on and try to see if there are any holes or areas where our focus isn't enough," he explains. "A couple of years ago we clearly put too much focus on PS3 titles and that caused a lack of support for the PSP last year. So we need to be focused and gear a lot of our resources back to the PSP, and we have many titles this year. ...
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Sony Computer Entertainment's disc drive-less PSP Go launched in Japan on Sunday, and managed to sell 28,275 units in its first day of availability in the region, according to Enterbrain sales data, translated by Japanese gaming-centric blog ...