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PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida Explains Being ' Fired' By Jim Ryan
Yoshida says Ryan wanted him out of PlayStation’s first-party team after he refused unspecified requests, and he says the dispute led to his 2019 exit.
- Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida claims he was "fired" as president of SIE Worldwide Studios because he "didn't listen" to then-CEO Jim Ryan, ending his 11-year tenure in 2019.
- Ryan asked Yoshida to "do the indie job" or "leave the company" after clashing over "ridiculous things," prompting Yoshida's transition to an indie initiative in 2019.
- Yoshida-San helped Sony Santa Monica make God of War, Naughty Dog make Uncharted, and Sucker Punch Productions create Ghost of Tsushima, his final major project as president.
- Now operating an indie game consultancy, Yoshida stated, "I'm free to show up in any podcast" and discuss Nintendo, Xbox, and Steam without corporate constraints.
- Ryan served as CEO until 2024 before retiring from the industry, overseeing aggressive live-service expansion that yielded mixed results with studio closures and canceled projects.
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Shuhei Yoshida Says Former PlayStation Boss Jim Ryan Removed Him As Head Of 1st-Party For Refusing To Do "Ridiculous Things"
Shuhei Yoshida has revealed why former Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan removed him as head of PlayStation first-party studios. At the 2026 edition of Australian games festival ALT: GAMES (via This Week In Video Games), former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida revealed that he was removed from his role as head of PlayStation first-party studios after refusing to comply with certain directives from then Sony Interactive Entert…
Former PlayStation Exec Shuhei Yoshida Says He Was Fired After Top Boss Asked Him To Do "Ridiculous Things"
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…
PlayStation would not have been the same without Shuhei Yoshida, linked for many decades to Sony and president of SIE Worldwide Studios for more than ten years.It was that way until 2019, when his position passed to Hermen Hulst. Yoshida would continue in the company in the PlayStation Indies division, until his retirement in 2024.We know that the former CEO of SIE, Jim Ryan, was the one who degraded Yoshida; but now it is the ex-executive who r…
Shuhei Yoshida Says Jim Ryan Fired Him From PlayStation Studios...
Shuhei Yoshida, previously head of Sony Worldwide Studios for 11 years, has remarked that he was “fired” from the role by then-CEO Jim Ryan, “because I didn’t listen to him.” Yoshida suggested Ryan “asked to do some ridiculous things, and I said ‘No,'” before saying that he highly enjoyed the role Ryan offered him as Head of PlayStation Indies Shuhei Yoshida, the former head of Sony Worldwide Studios (the division now known as PlayStation Studio…
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