Shūhei Yoshida, the Head of Indies Initiative at PlayStation’s Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), announced on an episode of the official PlayStation Podcast on Tuesday that he is leaving SIE on January 15.
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Yoshida later became the Vice President at Sony Computer Entertainment America in 2000, and in 2007 became Senior Vice President at SCE Worldwide Studios USA.
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Yoshida was part of the PlayStation project since 1993, before the first PSX console was released.
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In this role, he negotiated with game publishers and developers to release games for the then-nascent PlayStation console.