Sony’s Used Games Gag ‘Was Not Planned’

Sony’s Used Games Gag ‘Was Not Planned’


The video above was one of the biggest hits of this year’s E3. It was a sharp, smiling jab at the Xbox One’s restrictions on game-sharing from a Sony doing the Ali shuffle.

Today, I got the video’s back story from one of its stars, Sony’s head of worldwide studios, Shuhei Yoshida.

Kotaku: Why did you guys feel the need to make the sharing video?

Shuhei Yoshida: Oh, the sharing video! It was not necessary at all. We were waiting in rehearsal two days ago and Adam [Boyes, Sony v.p. of developer relations and the video’s co-star] or someone came up with the idea and we were like, ‘Oh, what if we do this and that?’ We had a studio there in the event space room with Macintosh desktop editing. We shot the video and the guys added music. We were having fun. Andy [House, president of Sony Compter Entertainment] was like, oh, yeah, let’s release this virally. It was not planned.

[Satisfied with that little story, I tried to move on to the next topic in our interview; Yoshida politely cuts me off.]

Yoshida: Last I checked, we got over three million views.

Kotaku: You’re pretty proud of that!

Yoshida: We’re competing with some of the more high-production-value trailers.

The video now has 4.8 million views. Not bad at all.


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