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.) He hasn't provided a reason why he's leaving. Many know Yoshida as Sony Interactive's Head of Indies Initiative, a position he got in 2019. In other words, he's in charge of getting indie games onto PlayStation consoles by networking with indie developers and promoting the games they made.

Sony and Honda have partnered to create an electric vehicle equipped with the latest digital content, which they say will give them an edge in the growing EV market. The Japanese companies launched Sony Honda Mobility in September and aim to produce vehicles by 2025. A prototype electric SUV was presented in January presentation and it showed off gaming capabilities. The prototype SUV had the ability to connect to a remote Playstation console and passengers could play either on the vehicle's front panoramic screen or on individual rear-seat displays. Sony Honda Mobility plans on using those features and Sony's vast entertainment technology to compete against leading EV companies such as Tesla.

With Microsoft Corp.'s $7.5 billion (¥784 billion) purchase of ZeniMax Media Inc., gamers' long-awaited fantasy about a "Netflix for gaming" took a step closer to reality. Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax gives it Bethesda Softworks, the popular publishing label behind some of the world's best-selling titles, such as The Elder Scrolls series. Microsoft aims to use that draw, along with other popular Bethesda titles such as Doom and Fallout, to attract subscribers to Xbox Game Pass, its ¥850-a-month library of hundreds of video games for Xbox and personal computers. Microsoft said the service has 15 million subscribers now, up from 10 million in April. Netflix, which has revolutionized the entertainment business, finished the second quarter with almost 193 million subscribers.

It's the end of an era for at least some handheld video game console fans. PlayStation has just announced that it will cease production of its handheld PlayStation Vita console in Japan in 2019. The announcement was made at the 2018 Tokyo Game Show on September 20. Sony Interactive Entertainment Vice President Hiroyuki Oda confirmed that production will soon cease and revealed that the company currently had no plans for a successor to it. 'Currently, we do not have any plans regarding a new handheld device.