First reported by 4Gamer (with translation by Automaton), former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida recently spoke about Sony's decision not to publish Demon's Souls in North America, which led FromSoftware to partner with Bandai Namco on its breakout 2011 hit, Dark Souls.
Yoshida provided the keynote address at this year's CEDEC industry conference in Japan, where he spoke about some of his experiences working close to the top of Sony's games business. Sony published Demon's Souls in Japan—hence its console-exclusive status to this day—but declined to bring the game oversees.
According to Yoshida, Demon's Souls' initial Japanese run only consisted of 20,000 copies shipped, and it was not expected to break even on development costs. Trying the game for himself in 2008, a year before launch, Yoshida said he failed to make much progress after two hours, and described his conclusion as "w...
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