PlayStation has had to cancel "many games" to achieve success, reveals Shuhei Yoshida

PlayStation has had to cancel "many games" to achieve success, reveals Shuhei Yoshida. The executive talked about their productions and the current state of the industry. The industry is full of fresh and exciting ideas, but unfortunately not all of them come to fruition. Shuhei Yoshida, in charge of PlayStation's indie strategy, lamented this during a recent interview, revealing that PlayStation cancels many games.

The executive stated that they continuously seek to take advantage of new and very good ideas, but the vast majority of them fail. Hence, they have had to discard many projects that did not work well in their prototype stage. During a talk with The Guardian (via GameSpot), Yoshida revealed that behind all of PlayStation's successes, there are also several stumbles since many projects have been canceled, and some alliances simply did not work.

He explained that the talent of their developers and studios has been fundamental to their achievements. Therefore, throughout his career, he has done everything possible to help creatives move forward with their projects. However, they have occasionally had to face the difficult decision of canceling certain games after experimenting with prototypes.

"PlayStation adopts new ideas, and many of them fail. We make a prototype, evaluate it, decide if we spend more time and resources on it, or just leave it. We cancel many games. Usually, I try to persuade the developer that I am trying to prevent them from getting stuck with this project.

"We usually work with people who have very solid ideas; we love these people, so trying to change or stop their project is very difficult. In this industry, everything depends on talent. I have tried to help them as much as I can," Yoshida revealed.