Shuhei Yoshida on the future of gaming
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Welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of sticking an SNES cartridge into your handheld. I'm your friend Sean Hollister, and today we're talking to Shuhei Yoshida. He helped work on the original PlayStation. He produced PlayStation games for decades. He led Sony's internal publishing teams, and he championed indie games. A journalist once called him the soul of PlayStation, and he was pushed out of the company. But I don't just want to talk about the past. I first met Shu when he was wearing his technologist hat, when he introduced PlayStation VR, and again when Sony embraced the Steam Deck PC handheld. I want to know how he sees the future of gaming. How will we play? How will games be made and played in an era when server farms are gobbling up all the chips and developers have generative AI tools?
Will people keep buying increasingly powerful and expensive boxes to go under their TVs? Or is the future handheld? Or phone? Or cloud? Shu is a prolific gamer who thinks about all of this. And at Sony, he wizard the room. But first, here's what's happening on The Verge today. This is 90 Seconds on the Verge from Monday, September 28th, 2026. There may be a way to save your gin's smart oven. Grilling company Weber made me facepalm this past week when it chose to save a few pennies by nixing its cloud services, taking away features you paid for, like a live camera view of your food. But two June owners have started Project July, which claims your oven can run its own server. Just unscrew seven screws and plug your laptop into the oven to install.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–4:13
2
Where is the gaming industry headed as more people create and play games?
4:13–6:16
3
How could generative AI create new kinds of video game experiences?
6:16–13:14
4
How is AI changing indie game development, testing, and player trust?
13:14–15:18
5
Will hybrid consoles and handheld gaming PCs shape how we play?
15:18–19:07
6
Why is Sony changing its strategy for PlayStation games on PC?
19:07–26:21
7
How will rising console prices change gaming business models?
26:21–34:38
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Can cloud gaming become affordable enough to compete with consoles?
34:38–46:25