Hiroki Totoki
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Sep 19, 2026
SunnyHOST
He's got no say, no power, nothing.
SunnyHOST
And I think Totoki and Nishino are very, what the fuck has happened with the budgets and everything this generation? And I think they're just really reining it in.
SunnyHOST
I'm happy.
SunnyHOST
Look, I'm happy Kojima's found another partner.
Joseph MoranHOST
The first thing during a state of play, you're telling me that, that a movie show, TV, hybrid, whatever, doesn't appeal to you anymore.
Joseph MoranHOST
It just, it, it, uh, I, I think it's not the ignorance of PlayStation more than the, the number, the, the guy behind the car, right? Hiroki to Tokyo guy behind the wheel rather.
Joseph MoranHOST
He's all about the numbers and improving the margins.
Joseph MoranHOST
Herman is just going to nod and agree to whatever Hiroki Totoki says.
Joseph MoranHOST
Oh, you do certainly boss.
Joseph MoranHOST
And what we've seen is him.
ColteastwoodHOST
I'm not happy.
ColteastwoodHOST
I don't know if this was Herman Hull's choice or Hiroki Totoki, but maybe Kojima's like, I love PlayStation.
ColteastwoodHOST
I've known them my whole game development life, most of my life, and I don't want to work with those two anymore.
ColteastwoodHOST
and I signed this deal with Xbox, I'm going to work with them, and I'm going to make games with them in the future.
Scott TailfordHOST
There's, there's five precogs, I think, in Minority Report, and they're all in that big, like you said, big vat of goop, and they're all kinda hooked up.
Scott TailfordHOST
If that was Asha Sharma, Matt Booty, Hermen Hulst, Hideaki Nishino, and Hiroki Totoki, I guess you would need Miyamoto in there as well, just the different minds of the gaming industry.
Ewan PatersonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Scott TailfordHOST
Would they ever agree on anything? Because at the minute, Nintendo, Xbox, and Sony are all going in different directions.
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Scott TailfordHOST
[laughs] Forbidden West, uh, totally lost me on Horizon, but I love Zero Dawn.
Scott TailfordHOST
Um, but no, in terms of, like, that executive team, like, I, I've seen that sentiment being mentioned a lot more because you had guys, um, you know, Andrew House is gone, Shaun Layden's gone, um, Shuhei Yoshida is gone, like a lot of people who green lit the likes of the Ratchet & Clanks of the world and Horizon back in the day, things that, you know, made Sony what they are across the 2010s.
Scott TailfordHOST
Um, a lot of those people have gone now, and you have this trio of, I mentioned them before, but Hermen Hulst, Hideaki Nishino, and Hiroki Totoki, that are a lot more data-driven.
Scott TailfordHOST
It just seems like they're a lot more, "Well, that's not gonna work because this didn't work before." And all we, all they can do is look backwards and go do another sequel to that or do something that is iterative of, of a, of a, a proven bet.
No Charro WolfHOST
There's gonna be a lot of awkwardness [laughs] going on.
No Charro WolfHOST
Like, [laughs] I just imagine Kojima walking into work and Hiroki Totoki right next to him is like, "Oh, oh, h- h- hello sir.
No Charro WolfHOST
I'm sorry." [laughs] And just, like, this weird back and forth 'cause, God, I mean, like, he really believed in PlayStation.
No Charro WolfHOST
He was there since the PS1 and now it's like this is effectively a backstab for him.
Tony PolancoHOST
But at the same time, it would be good to have a guy like a Shawn Layden or a Dio Corsi or Andrew House, you know, or a Shuhei, you know, that was, like, affable and out there talking to people and shit.
Tony PolancoHOST
Who do we have now? What? fucking Hiroki Totoki like that dude's just in Japan chilling you know he ain't talking to nobody you know like we Sony has no front facing person now you know and again I'm not saying you gotta be on Twitter all the time and kissing ass and all this stuff you know but you gotta have you know gotta have something right so that would be good but and everything you guys said was also true it's like get back to the basics Stop chasing trends and mix it up, you know? Because when you put all your money on, you know, all your eggs in one basket, if you drop the basket, you're fucked.
Tony PolancoHOST
That's what happened with Concord.
Tony PolancoHOST
And I'm sorry to say this, that's what's going to happen with Wolverine.
MattHOST
Yeah.
MattHOST
I mean, yeah, the, the, the whole Hermen Hulst, Hiroki Totoki thing has always been, you know, when they're, like, co-CEO for a bit and it was always a bit weird around after Jim Ryan left and, yeah, I don't know.
MattHOST
So Sony's a very interesting business at the moment.
JakeHOST
I, I don't know the Japanese business culture well enough to speak on it probably objectively or anything, but I don't know, do they live as quarter to quarter as, uh, North American businesses seem to?
Scott TailfordHOST
Obviously, he's not there anymore.
Scott TailfordHOST
Um, and now it's Hideaki Nishino and Herman Hulst and, um, Hiroki Totoki at the top.
Scott TailfordHOST
But, like, they're still, to me, operating from that mindset of like, oh, it doesn't fit the re- the recurrent spending method stuff.
Scott TailfordHOST
It doesn't re- you know, it doesn't fit that.
Jeff GrubbHOST
That's not the case anymore.
Jeff GrubbHOST
He reports to the, to the CEO, which I think is, um, uh, uh, Nishino, right? That's Nishino and, and Totoki.
Jeff GrubbHOST
Those are the co-CEOs now.
Jeff GrubbHOST
Um, and tho- both of them feel very much like they're the business guys.
Joseph MoranHOST
We just don't have it in this leadership.
Joseph MoranHOST
We don't have it in Hiroki Totoki.
Joseph MoranHOST
We don't have it in Mr. Nishino.
Joseph MoranHOST
We don't have it in Lin Tao.
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