Shuhei Yoshida will step down from PlayStation in January 2025, after more than 30 years at the company.
Yoshida is one of PlayStation’s longest-serving employees, and over the decades has become one of the brand’s most memorable faces.
Best known for his long stint as boss of PlayStation Worldwide Studios between 2008 and 2019, it was in this era that Yoshida began talking directly to fans via social media, and starred in PlayStation’s iconic video demonstrating how easy it was to share games on PS4, following Microsoft’s fumbled Xbox One announcement.
There was also that time Yoshida fell asleep while Heavy Rain director David Cage delivered a monologue on storytelling.
Since 2019, Yoshida has looked after PlayStation’s push to encourage indie developers to its platform. In 2023, he was awarded the BAFTA Games Fellowship for his contributions to the industry.
Eurogamer has interviewed Yoshida numerous times over the years, including at EGX 2015, in a talk to celebrate PlayStation’s 20th anniversary in the UK. Asked by then-Eurogamer editor-in-chief and now-PlayStation colleague Martin Robinson where the company would be in another 20 years, Yoshida said: