“He gathered around thirty consumers to test the game […] and they all crashed.”.
In a new interview with PlayStationInside, the former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida has shared a story, in which he claims to have “partly saved” the original Gran Turismo from failure by convincing its developers to tone down the handling of the realistic racing sim (thanks VGC!)
In the interview, which was published on PlayStationInside yesterday, the site’s co-founders Geoffrey Lerch and Yacine Ouali asked Shuhei Yoshida about any achievements that he was particularly proud of during his career at Sony. This led Yoshida to get onto the topic of the 1997 racing game — a project he personally oversaw as an executive producer at Sony and one that he argues he played a small but significant role in giving important feedback on while it was still in development.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“He gathered around thirty consumers to test the game […] and they all crashed.”.
In a new interview with PlayStationInside, the former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida has shared a story, in which he claims to have “partly saved” the original Gran Turismo from failure by convincing its developers to tone down the handling of the realistic racing sim (thanks VGC!)
In the interview, which was published on PlayStationInside yesterday, the site’s co-founders Geoffrey Lerch and Yacine Ouali asked Shuhei Yoshida about any achievements that he was particularly proud of during his career at Sony. This led Yoshida to get onto the topic of the 1997 racing game — a project he personally oversaw as an executive producer at Sony and one that he argues he played a small but significant role in giving important feedback on while it was still in development.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
