Former PlayStation executives Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes have recreated their iconic “that is the way you share your video games on PS4” second – now with a really well timed game-less image.
Irrespective of which aspect of the console conflict you sat on in 2013, there is a good probability Sony’s ‘Used Sport Educational Video’ reached you. Within the months main as much as the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One, Microsoft’s restrictive game-sharing plans turned vastly controversial and Sony determined to benefit from the destructive fan frenzy with one brief clip.
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PlayStation’s president of first-party studios, Shuhei Yoshida, and head of third-party relations, Adam Boyes, stood in entrance of a digicam and defined to of us how game-sharing labored on the corporate’s then-next-gen console. The first step? Yoshida handed Boyes a bodily copy of Killzone: Shadow Fall. Step two? There was none. That was all. The video racked up 21m views prior to now 13 years and has since develop into one of many defining moments of the PS4’s launch.
Now, Yoshida shared that he reunited with Boyes whereas at Tokyo Sport Present 2026 in a brand new on-line publish. “Met with a greatest good friend,” he wrote, alongside an image of the duo recreating their well-known game-sharing pose. Fairly fittingly, neither have a bodily sport to share.
Met with a greatest good friend 😀 @amboyes @PlayStation_jp #TGS2026 pic.twitter.com/2ZjsrLMNaP
— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) September 18, 2026
Yoshida and Boyes weren’t outright throwing shade at Sony’s disc-less future, however followers clearly interpreted it as a mocking dig regardless. “That is the way you share video games with your pals in 2028,” one response publish tweeted.
Earlier this summer time, Sony introduced it will not manufacture discs for brand spanking new PlayStation video games beginning in 2028. The corporate did not await the physique of bodily gaming to go chilly earlier than it started repurposing its lone disc-making manufacturing unit, both, resulting in months of backlash from gamers who like to really personal the video games they purchase. Followers even tried to organise protests in opposition to PlayStation’s all-digital future, although the console maker insisted it was sticking to its weapons. Gaming analysts advised Eurogamer the corporate’s plans could be a “hammer blow” to conventional sport shops and bodily retailers.