Retired PlayStation executive praises rival Nintendo and shares the latter’s influence on his work, calling himself a ‘huge Nintendo fan.’

Shuhei Yoshida, the former president of Sony Interactive Studios, was there from day one of the PlayStation. And in a new interview, the former exec shared a story of how, on his first day at PlayStation, he got the chance to play the company’s first game on the infamous Nintendo PlayStation system.

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