Former SIE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has touched on Microsoft’s current strategy to bring Xbox games to PS5, calling it a ‘win’ for PlayStation console owners.
Speaking on the Sacred Symbols podcast Yoshida-san pointed out that PS5 owners didn’t have access to these titles before, and noted that game creators are also business folk too, and therefore want their games to reach the biggest audience possible.
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I think it’s a win for PlayStation owners, they didn’t have access [to those games] before.I explained in one interview that it was always my nightmare when I was a managing first-party, I’m lucky it didn’t happen, that if PlayStation became the minority platform, it would be impossible to maintain the first-party development because the best creators would leave. They are not just creatives, they are business people as well, they want their games to reach the biggest audience as well.
It’s very natural if a platform is the minority and if I was able to release a game on the minority platform only, it’s unsustainable. That was the nightmare.
Yoshida also revealed during the interview that he got to play the cancelled The Last of Us Online game from Naughty Dog, described it as ‘great,’ and also touched on the as-yet unannounced PS6, stating he feels a 2028 ‘feels right.’
[Source – Sacred Symbols Podcast]