PlayStation Exec Owns Two Wii Us, Loves the New Mario

We already knew he had one, but Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment's Worldwide Studios, actually owns two Wii Us.

[sinncross]

I really do belive that Yoshida is one of the best, if not the best, gaming executives around.

He wants his company to do well, is always active with the fanbase, and never puts down the competition.

[Lovable]

Yawn. Well he's doing his job well considering how much you worship him.

[abzdine]

Wii U PS4 is the best console combo this gen, period!

[Eonjay]

At least SCE's top ranking executives are part of the gaming community and actively involved. Some companies don't even have officer class executives that reach out to their fanbase...

[CGI-Quality]

Quit being a sour grape. He said nothing wrong at all.

OT: Yoshida is just what the industry needs - respectable man that welcomes all competition.

[cleft5]

I will be doing the PS4/WiiU Combo this generation as well as the PSVita/3DS combo. Sony delivering the cutting edge next-gen games and Nintendo delivering those amazing Nintendo experience. Best of both worlds.

[maddskull]

atleast we are not like you sucking phil spencer and the other xbox execs

[RyuCloudStrife]

Yoshida gets more and more respect from, he truly is a class act.

[tanookisuit]

It's sad that the forums over at GameSpot and Kotaku are talking as if Yoshida has some "hidden agenda" underneath his comments.

Why can't people just be happy for positive things? They act as if it is blasphemy for executives to own other consoles/devices.

[cesuf]

Because the door doesn't swing both ways is why.

It's only fanatistical news when sony does it, otherwise everyone else has "hidden agendas" and are really "the devil in disguise" trying to capture ours souls.

[thecowsaysmoo]

@abzdine

How are you suppose to play Halo, Titan Fall, Forza, Fable, Quantum Break , Sunset Overdrive,Dead Rising 3 and more?

[qu1ckset]

Halo is slowly getting old, wish they would go back to the halo2 style , Titan Fall is also on PC, Forza vs GT ? , and the rest who cares people will live with out then and not even flitch, and this is coming from a xbox and xbox360 die hard before you make some stupid fanboy comment!

[maddskull]

no need for these games and microsoftt are statring to milk halo and playstation has more games that are better

[pootymcpoockle]

Halo is on it's way out. Fable died after the second installment, and Dead Rising is by no stretch of the word a must have. If there's any console I'm worried about these days, it's the Xbox. Their exclusives have near dwindled into non-existence! My current console is the 360, and the only games I couldn't have gotten anywhere else are Halo, Gears of War, and Forza. Even Forza can easily be substituted for Gran Turismo, and after that there's not really anything left that's desirable.

[Magicite]

Buy 2nd hand after years when everything is heavily discounted.
Or simply You dont at all.

[Joey_Leone]

You guys got Halo, WE DON’T WANT IT! We got Uncharted and GT, YOU DON’T. lol

[JunioRS101]

Not only that, but he actually just simply enjoys gaming culture. It's refreshing to see someone at the forefront of console development who really understands and can sympathize with a fan base, execute those ideas successfully, and push out a product that we can all enjoy genuinely without having to settle.

[Mikey32230]

Why cant sony make some simplisticly fun games like nintendo does... they wouldnt even have to spend time of graphics or anything.

I know sony makes some great creative games (tearaway, flower, Journey, and so many more) but nothing that is completely iconic like nintendo does.

Dont get me wrong, i love PS Games, im a sony guy through and through... i just feel like it should be fairly simple to do, look how many times nintendo has done it

[deafdani]

You think Nintendo doesn't spend time on graphics?

:/

[bigfish]

he's only doing that because the PS4 is performing well, if the shoe was on the other foot and it was PS4 that was performing badly - do you seriously think he would give two shits for the WII U?

[HonestDragon]

I totally agree with that. He knows what it is to be a gamer and connect with the consumers.

@abzdine With the new rush of games lining up for the Wii U and the stellar performance of the PS4 so far, I'd totally say I found my choices for this new generation.

[Shnazzyone]

C'mon sony peoples, give peace a chance.

[MilkMan]

Better believe it!
and why not own it, system is the shit!

[MajorLazer]

I think you added 'the' by accident

[HonestDragon]

Especially after seeing that latest Nintendo Direct? Oh, yeah, Wii U is definitely going to make huge strides. Can't wait for that new Mario Kart and Smash Bros.

[Amigaengine]

"PlayStation Exec Owns Two Wii Us, Loves the New Mario"

Doesnt everybody ? He hates MS so much he is rooting for Nintendo :P

[3dmariofan68]

Yes it is actually Nice, to see someone who is Mature that has the word sony affiliated with them, to say something nice about nintendo, they are good friends, and thank goodness they are mature enough to not want Nintendo to fail.

[Majin-vegeta]

He owns a Japanese Wii U and an American version of WII U.

[ravenl0rd]

As much as I would hate to see it, it is possible that Nintendo could drop out of the console race one day. Sony is the obvious place for its games to go if such a doomsday event were to happen. Why not make nice?

[TwilightBites]

You have no clue what you're talking about with nintendo.

[WeAreLegion]

I would agree with you, but I'm low on bubbles as it is. So, let's pretend I disagree with you.

[R00bot]

I don't think saying that will help your bubbles...

[NihonjinChick]

The saddest part is that people will see this and still carry on with their console war nonsense. Even though Yoshida himself thinks the WiiU is "just getting started" and loved the new Mario game.

On another note. Did you know Masahiro Samurai, the guy working on Smash Bros, owned a PS3 last gen?

[strigoi814]

i have a ps4 and a wiiU the best combo ever...goes with my ps3 and psvita..the only lacking for me is time..holidays are coming anyway

[cesuf]

PC+wiiU>combo breaker, fatality.

[zalanis]

Well Yoshida-san, forbetter or worse, ill be buying the new smb based on your opinion. Thnx and hope ninty returns the favour.

[E2S]

Why wouldn't he? A. It's probably a pretty good system and B. Nintendo these days is less and less competition to them (except maybe in the handheld market) C. he's likely a legit gamer

[pootymcpoockle]

Perfect example of a man who's just passionate about gaming. No bias, just a true gamer.

[GamersHeaven]

Smart man no need for the Xbone all those games will be out on PS4 in a year.

[Nathaniel_Drake]

Why not? It's a good system, and Yoshida is a gamer anyway

[ironmonkey]

Anything ms gives me a headache. Im done with that whole mess. Wiiu is staring to look appealing especially with donkey kong and zelda. I might grab one.

[Thepcz]

thats how sony conducts its R&D, buy nintendo consoles and games, copy the games, steal ideas from the tech.

[Beastforlifenoob]

Mind to share with us 1 single time SONY has ever stolen from Nintendo.

[MrTimesplitters]

Playstation Move, D-Pad, Rumble, Playstation all Stars etc.

[Thepcz]

yes, they stole almost every feature nintendo ever invented for the modern control pad. they also completely ripped off the wiimote with move.

heck, the playstation itself is a tear-away project that original started in collaboration with nintendo.

[cl1983]

The pseye, analog sticks (admittedly they chose to use two sticks first) metal gear was originally on nes.

[Beastforlifenoob]

@Mritme
1.)Motion controls: https://www.youtube.com/wat... Sony showed them off in a presentation in 2000 and also had eyetoy before move AND WII Mote
...

2.) These were the worlds first analog stick controller invented in 1976: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

3.) The rumble controller were both released in 1997 (albiet nintendo a few months earlier) but Sony used a different method to achieve a rumble effect.

4.)Playstation all stars? Wtf fighting games were NOT invented by Nintendo

NOW lets list all of the things Nintendo has stolen (not from sony specifically)

1.) Multi Monitor gaming (PSP and PS3 remote play) and in fact in one F1 racer the PSP could be used as a rear windshield.

2.) CD player, Nintendo devices used to use cartridges until sony applied thier majic and made a CD/DVD based console and ahoy nintendo copies.

3.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... looks alot like the original Donky Kong doesnt it only problem is it was released before the original donkey kong

4.) Nintendo stole the idea of motion controls and specifially motion controller gaming

Please Nintendo hasent invented Jack...

[KratosSaveUs]

IMO PS4 and Xbox One is the best combo. Of course I had to get the PlayStation 4 first and foremost but I'm looking forward to getting a Xbox One for Halo and such.

[THEMIGHTYDOOVDE]

imo, that's the best combination if you want to two game consoles that share 98% of their library.

[No_Pantaloons]

He has money to waste, I don't.

[AKR]

As I've said before ~ The heart-pumping animosity that people insist exists between these companies is only ever found the highly devoted fanboy community.

These guys have tea parties in each other's garages (joking) - but you get my point.

Do they all take shots at it each other every now and then? Nope. But that's nothing more than your average competitor trash-talk. It's seen all around.

The only ones really tripping out, and just want to see the world burn are these fanboys who treat these companies/devices like some family members they've been close too forever, and won't let a single soul dear speak ill of them.