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Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap”

Posted Feb 11, 2012 at 5:45PM EST by Mr Pham

Listed in: News Tags: demon souls, demons souls crap, Sony, sony chief this is crap

Demon’s Souls is a pretty successful game over here in the west, but before it’s western release it was apparently very different during development, even when it was ‘close to final’. Shuei Yoshida, Chief of Development at Sony, has told Game Informer in an interview that when he first played the ‘close to final’ build, he was sure that the game would be terrible.

He remembers saying “This is crap. This is an unbelievably bad game.”

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Subsequently, Sony did not publish the game in North America. That said, it was eventually published by Atlus and became a sort of cult classic.

Why was Yoshida so wrong? Mainly due to the methods of developing games in Japan; assets for a game in Japan are developed in parallel to the game, so the developers put together a small representation of the game as they hoped it would look when finished. Because of the rush, the game had many technical problems and frame rate issues.

He now admits that Sony made a mistake by not deciding to publish it for the US. “We definitely dropped the ball from a publishing standpoint”.

There you go, even the most experienced with testing games both bad and great in the industry can make misjudgements of quality.

What I want to see is what the playtest build looked like.

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Seriously? Disgusting? Are you actually fucking joking?

How else are they supposed to approve or reject games? He played a close to final version, and thought it was a shit game. So, you think Sony enjoys releasing shitty games and losing money? Yuh huh, didn't think so...

Also, its impossible to make "misjudgements of quality" in the gaming industry, its exactly like the music or movie industry. One man's trash is another man's treasure...

-2 # RE: RE: RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — PS360Owner1 2012-02-12 12:16

Shush.

Screw Sony and the game studio needs to move to the other systems.

-2 # RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — Four Murasame 2012-02-12 14:07

Hell if I know, I haven't played Demon's Souls yet so no comments for now......

# RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — CaptainObvious 2012-02-12 16:10

Thought Dark Souls the sequel to Demon Souls is available on the 360, Wait it is ? Then whats this muppet ^^^^^^ talking about

-2 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — Four Murasame 2012-02-12 19:12

I have no idea what's he saying......

# RE: RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — UltimaXIX 2012-02-13 12:55

Did you even READ the article???

-6 # Disgusting!! — Four Murasame 2012-02-11 22:24

This is so disgusting!! The reason why says that because he sucks at the game!! Demon's Souls is too hardcore for you people...... Now back to the best game ever Sin and Punishment!!

# RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — annonymous 2012-02-12 02:07

it's probably not fun in japan without some kind of rape monster or extreme gore

# RE: RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — AkaiOtoko 2012-02-12 17:13

...Silent Hill???

# RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — bearmon2010 2012-02-12 09:36

All companies are jealous of each others for competitive.. They are lust of money. Disgusting! All of them.

# RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — asdrubol 2012-02-12 13:06

its like fox entertainment giving the star wars rights to lucas because they though it would not sell and it was crap, i bit right back at them...

# Disgusting — Disgusting 2012-02-13 02:39

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# RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — xaos 2012-02-13 17:12

Uh, isn't the point of the statement Shuhei acknowledging that he was wrong about the game? Do people go so far as to read articles posted on the internet before exploding in insane fanboy rage?

# RE: Sony Chief: Demon’s Souls “Is Crap” — Common Sense 2012-02-20 13:15

Are you guys f*cking retarded? He said that the close to final version he played still had frame rate and graphic issues? That's why he rejected the game.

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