Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has one regret from the PS1 era: the US and Europe missed out on too many Japanese classics

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"So some Japanese games, especially from third-party companies, didn't see release in the US and European regions"

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Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has revealed that one of his biggest regrets from his 31 years working with the beloved console series is that many Japanese classics never made their way to the US and Europe during the PS1 era.

Yoshida is currently doing the media rounds to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original PlayStation's launch. As part of an interview with GI.Biz, Yoshida delves into some of his regrets from his many years at Sony and his work on various PlayStation consoles. Namely, that some beloved Japanese PS1 hits never got the chance to make a splash internationally.

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I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.

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