Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware didn't want to work with Sony on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dark Souls because the company didn't publish 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Demon's Souls in the West as it had originally agreed.
Speaking on the Sacred Symbols podcast, as spotted and transcribed by , Yoshida says: "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware wa♈s already working on the sequel, but they were so disappointed with how PlayStation treated them, we wanted 🧔to work with them again but they passed on it."
The soulsborne games are hard to get into if you don't enjoy a chal🗹lenge. Now, there's a whole genre, soulslikes, but back in the day, FromSoftware was a small Japanese studio making niche games that a lot of peo💟ple simply didn't understand.
"For my personal experience with Demon's Souls, when it was close to final I spent close to two hour൲s playing it and after two hours I was still standing at the beginning at the game,” recalls Yoshida. "I said, 'this is crap. This is an unbelieওvably bad game.' So I put it aside."
Obviously, that was a mistaဣke, one which Yoshida admits to. "We defin🐼itely dropped the ball from a publishing standpoint, including studio management side," he says. "We were not able to see the value of the product we were making."
Demon's Souls was published by Atlus in the US and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bandai Namco in Europe, and FromSoftware has continued its work with Bandai to this day, releasing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring and the spin-off sequel 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nightreign with the publisher.
Sony clearly sees the value in the studio now, though, as it's become the majority shareholder in FromSoftware's parent company, Kadokawa, and it plans to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:invest more money so that more games can be made. It also published ꦗthe Demon's Souls Remake worldwide, clearly learning from it💞s past mistake.
Sony also had 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bloodborne as a PS4 exclusive, so clearly there's no bad blood between it and FromSoftware anymore. That's my favorite FromSoft game, followed very closely by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Armored Core 6. Now I just want a sequel or remaster of t𒀰he gothic h💦orror. Please.
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