Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s worldwide studios has spoken to Game Informer about the company’s forthcoming PlayStation Vita and its rival, the Nintendo 3DS. Here’s what Yoshida had to say about the Nintendo 3DS:

It’s suspicious that Nintendo is releasing a second circle pad attachment for the 3DS after gamers universally praised the Vita’s dual analog sticks. Can you talk about what looks like an attempt by Nintendo to keep up with Sony?

Well it’s not like they looked at PS Vita and said “we need to do that as well.” I don’t know. It’s clear that they didn’t believe a second analog was necessary when they designed the 3DS, so I can only guess it was requested by Capcom’s side. Maybe a Capcom producer told Nintendo that to play Monster Hunter we need [two] analog sticks. That I don’t know, so I can only guesstimate. It was a bit shocking to see what they came up with.

Touching on the 3DS again, it seems like Nintendo responded to the Vita’s low price tag by dropping the 3DS’ cost even lower. It appears to be a direct response from Nintendo. Is it exciting to see Nintendo, which has had a death grip on the handheld market, seemingly react to the Vita’s hype?

I don’t personally believe that they dropped the price of the 3DS to respond to our pricing. We didn’t price PS Vita to their price, either. We had that plan since the last couple years. My personal guesstimate is that they have their business plan and goals to sell a certain amount of 3DS units, and they realized post-launch was that the pricing was not helping them to achieve the goal that they set. That’s my estimate. As far as if I’m excited, I’m not sure. If the 3DS sells like crazy and no one is interested in PS Vita, that’s a problem. There are lots of analysts talking about, “well, you know there are smart phones, there’s no need for dedicated portable game machines.” I don’t believe it. But if they point to certain performance of the 3DS and say the smartphone is here, it doesn’t help us either. I like to see healthy competition between Nintendo’s system and ours because it helps innovation. It’s always a good thing to have.

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If only they could be like this always I would actually buy a Sony product with love!

Shuhei Yoshida is always like this, he's the most down to earth CEO/President you'll see, watch his interviews.

Very cool

Ya seriously, he's a total BOSS too lol

It surprise me that I haven't read more interviews from him. He talks with truth.

nice i love this guy already! the others should fallow his footsteps and be like this as well

Let's be honest, seeing Jack Tretton trash talk the competition is way more exciting than this.

Though I do applaud his calm personality.

Yeah, I wish some of the other Sony guys were more like Yoshida.

it makes me laugh when people nit pick pr speech that they find offensive from individual employees of companies and go by the assumption that those are the views of the entire company... in fact its even more amusing that people find the pr speech offensive in the first place...

...anyway ot its good to see that he understands that they'll have challenges ahead in terms of launching the vita and that they seem to have a better put together plan now than they did with the psp

he's the boss, the head honcho, the don.