Popular former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has claimed that he was forced to step down from his PlayStation Studios role by then CEO Jim Ryan. Yoshida, who recently resigned from Sony ...

Former Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida has revealed that he was the choice by ex-PlayStation boss Jim Ryan to transition from first-party to indie projects or leave the company altogether.

In a candid interview at the DICE Summit 2025, Yoshida stated that former PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan presented him with ... Yoshida played a crucial role in Sony’s gaming expansion, having joined ...

Heads-up for all you PlayStation 3 diehards out there: the Sony console received a system software update on March 5, almost ...

In comments which went viral – much to the executive’s surprise – the well-loved industry icon revealed: “When [ex-CEO Jim Ryan] asked me to do the indie job, the choice was to do that or ...

Layoffs have been confirmed at PlayStation support studio Visual Arts, as part of ongoing restructuring at Sony.

It was reported in 2023 that PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, who left Sony in 2024, had a mandate that Sony's teams should make more games-as-a-service titles. A number of PlayStation developers were ...

A month later, then-Sony exec Jim Ryan said he believed live service games were a key part of gaming's future, confident in PlayStation's live service push. However, since then, the company has ...

that has, in a very large part, fuelled the enormous growth in the gaming industry that we've seen over the last ten years," said (now former) Sony exec Jim Ryan back in 2022. "I think that trend ...

The failure of “Concord” had immediate repercussions. On October 29, 2024, Sony announced the permanent closure of Firewalk Studios, resulting in significant job losses. This move underscored the ...