President of Sony's Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has recently treated himself to a Wii U. That's right, Yoshida (@yosp as he's known on Twitter), posted his Nintendo Network ID to his followers earlier this week in the hope of discussing his experience with fellow Wii U users.
However, in a cheeky and light-hearted attempt at trolling Nintendo, he posted the picture below in the Nintendo Land Community discussion forum in the Miiverse.
It's a rather gentle trolling, but a trolling all the same.
[source kotaku.com]
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"Trololo! I am stealing your MiiVerse ideas!"
Haha, go Yoshida! Gotta love a bit of competitive trolling
Now let's go and troll the 16 people that still use PlayStation Home! (I'm not serious by the way).
This is pretty funny, actually. looks up Sony boss on Miiverse
Playstation Orbis will have their own version of Miis called Piis
This is how the console war should be done. Trolling using the others hardware. Just like the Genesis/SNES days...
Hit "Report Violation" quickly!!!
XD
hahahahaha!
Now watch all the Nintendo Life users go and comment on it
Report violation.
And here I thought the PS Move was trolling on its own.
@gamelord08
i was about to say that xD
I'm going Home (Sony's Home I mean) to spam everyone I love Nintendo, today
I love PlayStation and Nintendo
Just Nintendo more
@yosp Wut? I love Phantasy Star... Yep that is a great series bro
Oh yes, trolling to the extreme.
Lol @ original News
Lol @ comments
Love it!
Should have put.
3DS what's that?
All the cool kids play a Vita.
How about no kids play the Vita because everyone likes 3DS better except for trolls.
Big smile on his face as he's jumping through nsmbu, then suddenly he starts to cry because he knows it's just too good to replicate.
Report Violation
But seriously, I wonder if the mods are going to delete that.
Quote "I'm stealing this totally!"
Nice move, ha!
@Bliquid No! he just loves his Phantasy Star... Nuff said
Haha
Nice to see him joining in the fun and just playing along, makes a refreshing change from the usual "pretending competitor's stuff is rubbish/doesn't exist".
Note also how he didn't resort to badmouthing the competition. Let's not let the side down here with fanboy nonsense.
I approve.
The only reason Iwata didn't troll Home is because nobody would've seen it.
This amuses me. I just had a thought, wouldn't it be epic (Yes I know it would never happen) if Sony and Nintendo made a lighthearted video where Kevin Butler and Reggie agrued.
I want to se Yoshida and Iwata play a game of SSBB and PSABR. Just to make some fanboys freak out.
Some light-hearted competition, this is what I like to see.
@Bliquid - These posts don't seem to be fanboy indignation, they seem to be jokes.
@Yoshida - Oh, you!
I'd post the same, LOL.
Wow, the PlayStation 3 and Vita must be really boring for him to do something like this on a Nintendo Console, Troll lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
Also, i'm gonna play Wipeout 3 on my Wii U, Troll lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
This makes me want to buy their next console and do the same thing(but obviously with Nintendo).
This is funny and how it should be; he obviously wants his brand to do better than the rivals and prefers it, but still shows that you can have some good fun on the competition's side. XD
I think it was a sweet comment, maybe he's really enjoying Miiverse (^_^)
And it only cost him $350 to do this, all of which went into Nintendo's pockets. Brilliant!
Seriously though, this is harmless. The fact that he was willing to purchase a Wii U at all is admirable in that he's open to playing others games. Also, he'll know, on a more personal level, what his competition is doing.
I had no idea Shuhei Yoshida liked Phantasy Star!
That's what happens when your console ain't sellin' as well the other company's! xD
Shuhei's trollin' simply looks like some desperate attempt to gain attention =P
Poor guy.
Lol that's cute, this is how console wars should be done.
@SheldonRandoms Wipeout 3? You mean the one you CAN play on WiiU or the one by Sony?
What the hey... Well, at least he bought a Wii U........ Or did he...
@Applejacklove - He did buy a Wii U. There was an article on here a few days ago talking about it. It shows that even though Sony and Nintendo are competitors, they can still be respectful and enjoy the other's products.
Can't wait until next E3 when we get to hear all about Sony's original idea of their new Playverse as well as their optional touchscreen accessory for the PS3, and Microsoft's plans for a new console which links up with the Surface Pro (MSRP $800) to provide those casual gamers everything they want to play for a mere $3000 or so.
It's fun to see some lighthearted goofing going on between both devs Love them both
That's pretty cool. At least he didn't draw a crude male appendage.
How is that trolling???
I just realized, in the picture, only one person yeah'd his comment. I wonder why?
I don't think its trolling. I think he is just saying that Playstation is his fav system
Now he's playing with power
Trolling or not the Boss of PlayStation bought a Nintendo Wii U.
Trolling is a bad way to describe it. To troll you need to intentionally want to provoke some sort of negative emotional response from the reader, usually anger. He's just trying to be funny. The term has become this kind of blanket statement. Even a slightly sassy and humorous comment is coined as a trollish statement. Trolling has less to do with content and more to do with intent. Being sassy isn't trolling. Being controversial isn't trolling. Saying you like a product on a competitor's board also isn't trolling in itself. You can't lovingly troll someone because trolling is about the sadistic pleasure of getting people angry/depressed over nothing. You either troll them or not.
Anyways, I guess it's kind of cute. Pointless, but cute.
Kinds puts all the rediculous fanboy nonsense of the last gen in to perspective. I'm hoping it's gone by the time all the next gen consoles are available. Though I doubt it will.
i felt like adding and trolling all his mii verse messages [= cuz that aint trolling
And it would not surprise me one bit if Myamoto or Iwata owned a personal PS3 or Xbox 360. Gotta know what the competition is up to.
@StarDust Are you sure that it might not just be that they wanted to play on the competitor's system to have fun?
Hehe thats actally quite cool
Then he steals the Miiverse idea and puts it into the PS4, and Miyamoto writes 'I love Wii U' on that
It could happen
Either way he still owns a Wii U so over all what does that mean lolol
LOL I got Yoshida's message a little while ago.
Cheeky so-and-so!
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