How Yoshida fell in love with virtual reality

Sony chief offers the moment when VR clicked for him.

Paris Games Week kicked off Tuesday night with Sony's press conference, and one of their focus points was PlayStation VR. After the show Gamereactor and other press where invited to a panel regarding Sony's virtual reality kit, Morpheus, and the PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida was one of the representatives on hand to answer questions.

A lot of praise was offered for the PlayStation VR, but possibly the most interesting thing said was by Yoshida himself, when answering a question regarding when he himself realised virtual reality was something he wanted the company to explore:

"Tom came to me and said 'try this'. It was like a homemade headset for the PS3 and I put this thing on and it was a God of War game. So I was Kratos in first-person view. I looked down at a very strong man's body and... I was sold."

Of course, who wouldn't be sold when looking like this:

Thanks to Gamereactor Sweden's Mathias Holmberg for his outstanding Photoshop work.