After a 38-year run at Sony, former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshidabid farewell to the company earlier this year.

“Moving from first-party to indies?

Well, I had no choice.

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But I felt very strongly about the state of PlayStation and indies.

I really wanted to do this,” Yoshida said toVentureBeat.

“I believed I could do something unique for that purpose.

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I feel like weve achieved that pretty well.

Theres still a lot we can do, but people are working on it.

I decided to leave.”

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Yoshida also commented onwhy there is no Bloodborne remasterand why the PlayStation Vita failed, amongst several other topics.

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