Yoshida Doesn’t Get People Who Only Want AAA Games

Speaking to GamesIndustry, Sony Worldwide Studios' president Shuhei Yoshida has said "I don't really understand" players who are only interested in AAA gaming. 

Commenting on the number and prominence of indies in the PlayStation 4's games lineup, Yoshida said: 

"I hear complaints [about the lack of AAA games]. I do realise that some people are only interested in big-budget AAA games. I don't really understand those people. I don't know if they've tried some of the indie games and decided they're not interested.

"Maybe they haven't even tried. That's a key question. With Resogun, which we offered for free for a long time on PS Plus, not every PS Plus member downloaded it, and that's a great, great game. That's a key question for us."

Hello Games' No Man's Sky grabbed plenty of attention at Sony's E3 press conference last month but key AAA titles such as Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, The Order: 1886, and Bloodbourne not due until 2015, Sony is relying on indies to bridge the gap – something Yoshida insists was not intentional when they set out to being courting small developers. 

Nevertheless, one of Sony's major first games that is coming this year, LittleBigPlanet 3, was also a concern for the company when development began – despite the success of the earlier games. 

"We are concerned a little bit when we work on a game like LittleBigPlanet 3, about how people will react, because people want those big-budget, realistic, military shooters. But there were lots of cheers [when the game was announced], a lot of affection."

You can check out Yoshida's thoughts on indies and his love of No Man's Sky here which is coming to PlayStation 4 first. LittleBigPlanet is set for release on PS3 and PS4 in October. 

Yoshida also spoke about PlayStation Now which offers users the option to rent PS3 games on PS4, Vita, smartphones, tablets, and select Bravia TVs for what some see as exorbitant fees. 

Asked whether a Netflix-like subscription will be offered, Yoshida said:

"We don't know yet. We have been saying that we're looking at doing a subscription model, in addition to rental. Or vice versa: rental in addition to subscription. We're calling it a beta still, and we'll call it that even after it launches in the US and Canada at the end of July. It will still be called an open beta, because we expect it to keep changing in many ways.

"We have the vision of bringing hundreds and thousands of PlayStation games to every screen. That's the vision, but we're taking it one step at a time."

While Now is in closed beta in North America right now and launches, as Yoshida said, later this month there, Sony has yet to issue a timeframe fro Europe or Japan though PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan has said "we might be able to talk" about further rollout of the service at gamescom in August.