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Shuhei Yoshida, the 30-year PlayStation veteran who left the company in 2025, has shed more light regarding the situation that culminated in his eventual exit from the company. He said at the ALT: GAMES event recently in Australia that after 11 years leading Worldwide Studios, he was “fired from the role.”
As reported by This Week In Video Games, Yoshida said he was fired from that job in 2019 in part because he refused to listen to PlayStation’s top boss, Jim Ryan. He retired in 2024.
“Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn’t listen to him,” he said. “He asked to do some ridiculous things, and I said, ‘No.'”
Hermen Hulst, the co-founder of Killzone and Horizon studio Guerrilla Games, succeeded Yoshida in that role, with Yoshida taking over as the leader of PlayStation’s team heading up support for external independent creators.
“Everybody in the company knew how much I loved indie games,” he said. “I really enjoyed the role of promoting and evangelizing indie games.”
Yoshida previously talked about how he had “no choice” but to take the new indie-focused job at PlayStation, because it was either take the job or leave.
Ryan reportedly gave a mandate that Sony’s studios build
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