FromSoftware didn't work with Sony on Dark Souls because of how the company failed Demon's Souls, says ex-PlayStation boss: "We definitely dropped the ball"

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Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says FromSoftware didn't want to work with Sony on Dark Souls because the company didn't publish Demon's Souls in the West as it had originally agreed.

Speaking on the Sacred Symbols podcast, as spotted and transcribed by VGC, Yoshida says: "FromSoftware was already working on the sequel, but they were so disappointed with how PlayStation treated them, we wanted to work with them again but they passed on it."

"For my personal experience with Demon's Souls, when it was close to final I spent close to two hours playing it and after two hours I was still standing at the beginning at the game,” recalls Yoshida. "I said, 'this is crap. This is an unbelievably bad game.' So I put it aside."

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