Shuhei Yoshida, the former long-tenured leader of Sony’s first-party PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has said he was fired from the role by Jim Ryan – the boss of PlayStation – because he didn’t listen to him.<\/p>\n
“In 2019, after 11 years leading the first-party development, I was fired from the role,” Yoshida told an audience at Australian games event Alt: Games, as reported by This Week in Video Games<\/a>. “Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn’t listen to him. He asked to do some ridiculous things, and I said ‘No.'”<\/p>\n Ghost of Tsushima was the last first-party Sony game Yoshida oversaw.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n This appears to have been said in good humour. As Yoshida later remarked, he and Ryan were part of the same PlayStation generation so they knew each other well. “Because I grew up with Jim from the PS1 days… you don’t want to have one of your friends as one of your subordinates,” Yoshida said.<\/p>\n Jim Ryan took over as the head of the PlayStation business in 2019<\/a>, so this decision to shuffle Yoshida into a new role was part of his takeover. Yoshida, who’d overseen the God of War reboot, The Uncharted series’ creation and The Last of Us, and Ghost of Tsushima<\/a>, didn’t leave PlayStation when this happened, but took a new role developing PlayStation’s indie catalogue and tempting indie creators there. “I really enjoyed the role of promoting and evangelising indie games,” he told the Alt: Games crowd.<\/p>\n Ryan gave Yoshida’s first-party role to Guerrilla Games boss Herman Hulst, who retains that role now, after coming very close to leading all of PlayStation<\/a>. Between them, the two reformed PlayStation Worldwide Studios into PlayStation Studios, pushed into live service games, and acquired Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games<\/a>, Returnal<\/a> and Saros developer Housemarque, Marathon creator Bungie, Demon’s Souls remaker Bluepoint, which has since closed<\/a>, and a few more.<\/p>\n Yoshida left PlayStation in 2025, and now runs his own indie game consulting firm Yosp Inc – an independence that means he can now talk about Nintendo, Xbox and Steam, he said while on stage, with a smile.<\/p>\n Jim Ryan left Sony in March 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shuhei Yoshida, the former long-tenured leader of Sony’s first-party PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has said he was fired from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}