Pursuing live service games is risky, especially for Sony, after the failure of Concord and server shutdown. Sony president Hiroki Totoki aims to approach live service games with caution to avoid repeating the Concord disaster.

It is one of the biggest conundrums in the video game industry: why hasn’t Sony followed up Bloodborne with… anything? A remaster (Sony loves a remaster)? A sequel? A next-gen update? Fans of FromSoftware’s PlayStation 4 masterpiece have begged for more ever since the game launched to critical and commercial acclaim a decade ago.

Yoshida appears as a playable character in the PlayStation version of Super Time Force Ultra. Super Time Force Ultra is another game with a personal, though altogether different, connection to Yoshida.

With three decades spent at Sony, Shuhei Yoshida is a genuine veteran of the games industry, which lends this specific theory a little more credibility. But as he’s quick to specify, this isn’t insider information; it’s just a theory.

In November, we reported that one of the greatest PlayStation veterans, Shuhei Yoshida, had decided to leave Sony after 31 years with the company. Today he is unemployed (by his own admission) and outside of Sony's walls he suddenly has entirely new opportunities to talk about his time with PlayStation more openly.

Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida has offered his insight into why Sony has done anything with the Bloodborne series.

Bloodborne came out over eight years ago. No FromSoftware game has lived more rent-free in the minds of all the studio’s fans. A sequel to the Sony-published PlayStation 4 exclusive seems like an obvious choice,