Shuhei Yoshida Shares His Indie Picks For The 12 months For The Last Time As PlayStation’s Head Of Indies

Shuhei Yoshida is leaving PlayStation in January, an idea that’s nonetheless troublesome to reconcile with since Yoshida-san has been with PlayStation just about so long as PlayStation has existed.

Yoshida-san has had numerous roles in that point, together with being the boss of the entire PlayStation kit-and-caboodle, however these days he’s been the top of PlayStation’s Indies department, doing what he can to champion indie builders and video games. And for the ultimate time as the top of PlayStation’s head of indies, he’s shared his indie picks for the yr.

Shared on the PlayStation Weblog, Yoshida-san highlights 11 indie video games which might be his high picks for the yr, although they’re not numbered. His 11 video games within the order given are:

Pacific DriveAnimal WellV RisingSCHiMThe Plucky SquirePalworldNevaFear the SpotlightSlitterheadNine SolsBalatro

After all Yoshida-san will probably proceed to share indie video games he’s enjoying and that struck a chord with him on social media, so it’s not like we’ll by no means hear from him once more relating to indie video games.

However this is among the ultimate issues he’ll have publicly carried out for PlayStation earlier than he retires from the corporate that has just about been his complete profession, in his present position there.

Oddly, this annual reflection of indie video games he’s carried out over the past couple of years is among the final occasions gamers will hear from Yoshida-san in such an official capability at PlayStation, and one other marker of the top of his time there.

So since we received’t get one other likelihood, we right here at PSU need to take this second to want Yoshida-san all the perfect in his retirement, and thank him for all that he’s carried out to assist make PlayStation the console and platform we’ve all beloved to play video games on for years.

Supply – [PlayStation Blog]