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After three decades, it looks like Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida is looking to move on – the industry veteran says that he plans to retire from his post at the company’s PlayStation division, which will take effect in January this coming year. Announcing the news via the official PlayStation blog, the long-time company head says that he’s still “excited for the future of PlayStation.” Part of the interview reads:
I’m leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment on January 15 2025… it’s like announcing the launch date of a new game, [something] I haven’t done for a long time…
I’ve been with PlayStation from the beginning, and this is my 31st year with PlayStation. And when I hit 30 years, I was thinking, hmm, it may be about time for me to move on. You know, the company’s been doing great. I love PS5, I love the games that are coming out on this platform. And we have new generations of management who I respect and admire. And I’m so excited for the future of PlayStation.
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At the moment, Yoshida leads Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Indies Initiative department, and was previously President of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios for more than a decade from 2008 to 2019. He also worked alongside ken Kutaragi, who led the development of the original PlayStation console, all the way up to the PS3. Looking back at his time during the early years of PlayStation, he comments:
…we were so excited about the innovation that Ken’s team was bringing in, like 3D graphics, real-time technology, and CD-ROM with lots of data that we can put in with a low cost of manufacturing. And so we had really high hopes, high ambitions.
However, we were not known in the video game industry. And there were other electronics companies, big companies that tried to enter the video game industry and, you know, didn’t do well. So at the beginning before the launch of PlayStation, I think we were not taken very seriously from the industry, to be honest.
Recently, the PlayStation 2 passed 160 million lifetime sales, cementing its place as the current best-selling videogame console of all time and overtaking challengers to the list like the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo DS.
Source: PlayStation Blog
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