"You don't want to have one of your friends as one of your subordinates." Shuhei Yoshida, the former long-tenured leader of Sony's first-party PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has said he was fired from the role by Jim Ryan - the boss of PlayStation - because he didn't listen to him. "In 2019, after 11 years leading the first-party development, I was fired from the role," Yoshida told an audience at Australian games event Alt: Games, as reported by This Week in Video Games . "Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn't listen to him. He asked to do some ridiculous things, and I said 'No.'" Ghost of Tsushima was the last first-party Sony game Yoshida oversaw. Watch on YouTube This appears to have been said in good humour. As Yoshida later remarked, he and Ryan were part of the same PlayStation generation so they knew each other well. "Because I grew up with Jim from the PS1 days... you don't want to have one of your friends as one of your subordinates," Yoshida said.…