Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida Doesn’t Want to Live in a World that Has Only Touch Based Games

SCE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida is very proud, like all of Sony, of the work done on the DualShock 4, and while he does like touch based games (after all the PS Vita relies heavily on touch), he definitely wouldn’t like a world in which every game is touch based.

[Agent Smith]

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[Snookies12]

Agreed. Good man, that Yoshida character. Good man.

[Abriael]

The disagree army of denial is out in full force tonight.

[Boody-Bandit]

Ditto Snookies and Yoshida!
I DON'T EVER want to live in a world that has only touch games!

I get bored with smart phone and Ipad games in minutes. They are cool to mess around with to pass time in a waiting room but I will always be a console gamer as long as they exist.

[XB1_PS4]

I don't see how anyone could disagree with this. This would be the end of me playing games if they were all touch based. No content. Just mindless occupation.

[gta_manic]

how can anyone disagree with that beard

[ShinMaster]

True.

Just because mobile gaming is on the rise, doesn't mean console gaming is on a downfall.
It's better than it's been before.

[rainslacker]

@gta

Maybe they are incapable of growing their own?

[Snookies12]

@rainslacker - I can grow a pretty decent lumberjack beard... Though to be honest, I'm a little jealous of this man's natural talent. The quality of his beard is on a whole other level. I'm just not man enough to amount to that, and I'm sure the disagrees are the same way. They just haven't found a way to cope without trying to bring others down.

[PoSTedUP]

thats a pretty intelligent way of looking at it. Respect.

[Mr_cheese]

Touch is good to a degree, but I wouldn't want all my gaming to rely on it. I love the controller, it feels right for now

[booni3]

That makes two of us!

[Themba76]

im definately with ya on that one.

[ExPresident]

I'm all about games on my tablet that MAKE SENSE. FPS's don't make sense. XCom Enemy Unknown - Makes sense on a tablet, it just works.

There is no reason a market can't exist for both, and I'm glad Yoshida is all about the buttons too. Wanna know why people are getting excited about the new accessories for iPhones... cause they are button controllers.

Friday can't come soon enough! PS4 FTW!

[cyclindk]

Truly, it cannot.

It feels like we are approaching closer and closer to a black hole with each day that passes, each day taking longer than the next to elapse. Time dilation and its link to perception/expectation. It's a son of a gun for sure.

[HighResHero]

Keep it together soldier!

OT it's nice to see Mr. Yoshida is intelligent enough to understand that multiple unique control schemes can coexist with out destroying the other.

[cyclindk]

So.... tactiless AVR Engramatic Manipulation technology?

Total Recall
The Matrix

The hard stuff?

DO IT, PS project Delta (delta waves associated with the unconscious mind and sleep patterns, dream states).

[KillrateOmega]

A world with only touch-based games would be terrible. There are some types of games that simply don't work, or at the very least don't work well, on touch screens.

[cyclindk]

Unless... the games touch back... yeah, it'll happen

[KillrateOmega]

Games touching us? Oh, dear...

Inanimate objects molesting us. It's only a matter of time everybody.

[Legacy212]

Yoshida I am with you brother! People saying ipads are gonna take over gaming industry I couldnt even play resident evil 4 or final fantasy on an ipad

[brosephsmith]

Make the oculas rift,but better for ps4!!!!!!!!!!!

[mixelon]

He also said they touch controls are "great" - way to selectively choose headlines. :)

I agree with him though, touch controls are only good for certain things. Controllers, kb/mouse and other inputs aren't going anywhere.

[Hicken]

It's hardly selective. Yes, touch-based games can be great, but he doesn't want gaming to be ONLY that way. The core of the comment is that second half, and that's really important in this day and age, where analysts keep saying mobile games are taking over. It's good to see one of the big three's big wigs saying this.

[mixelon]

Avoiding analyst insanity and hyperbole - Nobody wants games to only be that way. It couldn't ever happen and has never been on the cards.

I wouldn't expect a boss from a company that sells traditional consoles to like the idea of a world where he couldn't sell any, either. :)

[HaveAsandwich]

who does, bro. who does.

[SpiralTear]

It's sad how some companies apparently think buttons are obsolete. If there's one thing Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft can all follow, it's that buttons are good and have a BIG place in gaming.

[darx]

Lucky for him he doesn't.