As of January 15, 2025, PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida will leave Sony but not retire from the industry entirely. Yoshida made the announcement while on the PlayStation Podcast Tuesday (a condensed transcription of the interview appears on the official PlayStation blog.

Shuhei Yoshida, the popular PlayStation executive, has announced that he will leave Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 15, 2025. At that point, he’ll be just shy of his 32nd anniversary with the company, having joined in early 1993 when the first PlayStation console was still in development.

Sony’s head of independent development at PlayStation and long-time game development leader for the console maker, Shuhei Yoshida, is leaving the company after over three decades. He helped produce some of the PlayStation’s earliest hits before moving onto help lead the platform’s powerhouse first-party studios across multiple console generations.

Spurred from sales of its $199 PS Portal gaming handheld, Sony is reportedly working on a dedicated handheld device that will play PlayStation 5 games.

While the PlayStation Portal offered a way to play PS5 games remotely, it wasn’t a standalone handheld. In fact, it’s been about 14 years since the PS Vita appeared, and now, according to a report from Bloomberg,