Shuhei Yoshida looks back on his long career at PlayStation while at Gamescom Latam 2025

Shu Yoshida has graduated from Sony, but he is not retired. Rather, he is running a new indie games consulting company dubbed YOSP Inc. Yoshida’s appetite to do more in gaming shows just how much he loves indie game developers. He won a Lifetime Achievement Awards at Gamescom Latam 2025, where I did a fireside chat with him in front of a big crowd of admirers. Yoshida just completed 38 years at Sony, including 31 years at PlayStation, and he completed his last day at the big Japanese company’s gaming division on January 15. While he’s leaving an illustrious career in the PlayStation business, Yoshida told me in an interview and the crowd at Gamescom Latam that he’s not done with gaming. He still plans on working with indie game makers, which was his final assignment at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He joined Sony in 1986, right out of college, and went to work in corporate strategy to review budgets and look for new businesses for Sony. At the time, Ken Kutaragi, seeking revenge ... Read full article.