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It's been four years since Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios was founded -- and as president Shuhei Yoshida sees it, it's played an indispensable role in developing the PlayStation 3's game library.
"It's been four years since Worldwide Studios was founded," Yoshida said in an interview with Famitsu magazine this week. "Up to that point, Japan, America and Europe had their own regional creative teams -- they were all separate mid-sized publishers, in a way. With the PlayStation 3, though, the scope of games was vastly broadened, and the skills and costs required to create them made things a great deal more complex. It became difficult for these somewhat separated publishers to make good titles by themselves, and so we merged them as part of our strategy to create games with the entire world in mind." Read more »