Video interview: Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on Team Ico, Insomniac, Move, and more

@Madmartigan

*sigh*

Not funny... not funny at all...

@Marty McFly

but Marty he's got a Britney gone crazy pic for an avatar, he gets away with shit like that, right?

@Madmartigan lmao!

@Madmartigan

what are you guys 12. I've seen worse jokes on this site. I found it funny.

@annoyingposter4

Naw man, give him more credit than that.

This E3 prolly just had a bad batch of coke being passed around, rather than sars or swine flu.

@Jetup

Yeah- did you see how giddy he got when they asked about it. Like he had to FORCE himself not to say anything. And his emphasis on "a very long time" in regards to development.

Makes me almost positive we will see something at TGS!

@s ls

Yeah. I agree with you.

Dear Joystiq, can we maybe get a text-version of this interview as well please? Thanks. :)

Well I tried to reply here with a partial transcript but joystiq hate's long comments, it seems.

*hates
and Joystiq, fix the damn commenting system, it's not like you're not just posting articles that could've been written at E3 or anything...

@mikeymilkshake

Can't afford one?

If you call yourself a gamer, you owe it to yourself to buy one at any cost.
Even if this involves donating your left nut.

@imeNrique :: Maybe the guy is a teenager or someone with a lot of debt or can't get employed, don't say he is pathetic dude. The guy is pretty much saying he can't afford it but if they made these games available in HD for PS3 then he would have no choice but to spend the last bit of money he has because he loves them so much. It's kind of a type of self deprecating humor. (Ignore that entire comment if you're also making a joke:)

Well if they posted all this E3 stuff that they've been posting over the last few weeks on one day then they'd have hardly any articles to post now, and as such the ad revenue would've been less as the articles wouldn't be read as much if they were all posted at once.

@Sylath

He doesn't directly say, he just says they are aware of consumer interest in there being such a thing. Since Sony France recently put up an Amazon France listing for it, coupled with all of the allusions and inferences, I'd say it's a safe bet that it's coming. What sucks is that the Amazon listing was for June of next year, which is entirely too far away.

@Sylath He said it seems likely...

@(Unverified)
Agreed. There's a high probability that it's coming. I absolutely loved Shadow of the Colossus but never played Ico. I could've bought Ico once but I'm kind of a snob and will only buy used games with the original box art and manual in at least decent condition and some moron took a black marker and drew smiley faces and scribbled all over the cover art of Ico...so I didn't get it (it's not like the North American box art for Ico was that "awesome" anyway.).

@(Unverified)

Why's it take so long to do a HD conversion?

HD conversion means a complete porting of the code over to the PS3 instead of making the game work in emulation (which not all PS3's are capable of anymore, IIRC). It's a pretty daunting task, especially for a game that had problems running on the PS2. Honestly, the "delay" (it hasn't been announced, so it really isn't delayed) is likely due to the small team that has surely been assigned to the task. Neither SOTC or Ico were huge monetary successes, so they aren't going to spend a fortune to hire a big team to do the port (I doubt Team Ico is doing it directly).

As for whether or not it's going to happen; Amazon France already had (has? I haven't checked in awhile) a product page for "The Team Ico Collection". Amazon is usually well informed when they do this kind of thing (meaning if they put up a product page, a real product eventually comes) so I'm fairly certain it is going to happen.

I'm much more enthused over The Last Guardian though. Was it mentioned in the interview? The title of this story references it, but I didn't hear it mentioned in the interview (which may be because I'm listening while on a stationary bike from afar but...)

@(Unverified)

"I wonder how good the Japanese proficiency of most of the people who've commented on this article would be? "

What the hell is this even supposed to mean I really hope you're not being as big an asshole as I think you are grrr

@(Unverified)

Agreed, for the most part. It is kind of odd for him to have a relatively thick accent despite having such great grammar, vocabulary and overall fluency. Regardless, I thought his English was crystal clear. I'm almost happy Joystiq didn't subtitle this, as his English is more than proficient to carry out this interview and offer us information.

My main issue with Starhawk is that there would be no tanks, and I love me some tanks.

@MrAlex Then that wouldn't be a sequel to
Warhawk so mayb there will be Futuristic tanks

@Ospov Right? I kept grabbing mine thinking I was receiving a message or something but after about the 4th time I heard interference, I paused the video to find it was Joystiq. How sloppy. Tsk, tsk. And not to mention the ringing and vibrating too, that woman could have stepped into another room or something to talk to whoever she needed to talk to. I found it very disrespectful to Mr. Yoshida that you would have all of this going off while he took his time to speak to you.