{"id":75912,"date":"2026-04-20T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75912"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:37:16","slug":"former-playstation-exec-shuhei-yoshida-says-he-was-fired-after-top-boss-asked-him-to-do-ridiculous-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75912","title":{"rendered":"Former PlayStation Exec Shuhei Yoshida Says He Was Fired After Top Boss Asked Him To Do “Ridiculous Things”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shuhei Yoshida, the 30-year PlayStation veteran who left the company in 2025<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n

As reported by This Week In Video Games<\/a>, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“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.'”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“Everybody in the company knew how much I loved indie games,” he said. “I really enjoyed the role of promoting and evangelizing indie games.”<\/p>\n

Yoshida previously talked about how he had “no choice”<\/a> but to take the new indie-focused job at PlayStation, because it was either take the job or leave.<\/p>\n

Ryan reportedly gave a mandate that Sony’s studios build<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75915,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75912\/revisions\/75915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}