'He Asked to Do Some Ridiculous Things, And I Said No' — PlayStation Veteran Shuhei Yoshida Says He Was 'Fired' After Clash With Former CEO Jim Ryan

Former PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida has said he was "fired" as president of Sony Worldwide Studios after clashing with then-CEO Jim Ryan. Yoshida departed his top job overseeing PlayStation's internal teams — such as Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica, Sucker Punch Productions, Guerrilla Games and Insomniac — back in 2019, when it was announced that he was stepping down to head a new Playstation-backed indie developer initiative. In the years since, Yoshida has claimed that he was asked by Ryan to "do the indie job" or "leave the company" — something he eventually did do, though not until 2025. Now, Yoshida has revealed more about what led to that job change — effectively a demotion — which he has blamed on having disagreed with Ryan over "some ridiculous things." "I helped Santa Monica to make God of War, Naughty Dog to make Uncharted and The Last of Us, and Sucker Punch to make the beautiful Ghost of Tsushima," Yoshida said during a talk at the Alt: Games convention, via This Week in Video Games. "Ghost of Tsushima was one of the last games that I worked on as the president of Worldwide Studios. "But in 2019, after 11 years leading the first-party development, I was fired from