
He loved the company's games as a child, and wanted to do something for it to find back that energy, as its power faded. He applied to Chunsoft, his preferred choice, but the internship meant he could start earlier at Hudson: since Yoshida was going through difficulties at the time, he opted for the latter to give his mother peace of mind faster. He studied at a school run by Hudson Soft, where teaching came from many senior developers, concurrently with an internship at the studio. Yoshida joined the video game industry in 1993. It made such an impact that he built his career in order to have the opportunity to work with Matsuno and create a game together. Tactics Ogre, directed by Yasumi Matsuno, is one of his favorites. He has been deeply involved in games since childhood, where he would spend hundreds of hours playing just one title.

The Yoshida family had little money Naoki had to work for play, which led him towards beating as many games as he could and getting the most out of coins spent on arcades. His formative years were lived in Hakodate, where he balanced high school studies with a part-time job running the entire game corner of a toy store. shocked him with the idea that people could control what was shown on television and the possibilities of multiplayer design Dragon Quest III made him want to become a writer due to how engrossed he became by its story, more so than those of books and films. His career choice was influenced by two Nintendo Entertainment System games: Mario Bros.


Yoshida decided to work on video games in elementary school. Yoshida became an Executive Officer at Square Enix in 2015, the Head of Square Enix's Creative Business Unit III and part of the Final Fantasy Committee that is tasked with keeping the franchise's releases and content consistent in 2014. Yoshida is credited with the revival of the original Final Fantasy XIV project by commentators like Game Informer, which was initially criticized for poor quality. He is best known for his work on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), mainly as director and producer of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and its expansions. Naoki Yoshida ( 吉田 直樹, Yoshida Naoki, born May 1, 1973), also known by the nickname Yoshi-P, is a Japanese video game producer, director and designer working for Square Enix.
