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Hermen Hulst needs to go!

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Shmunter said:
Sony can no longer identify the gold among the dust. Running blind.
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This. This is a company that used to sign deals with great companies to develop original games and most turned out great. This gen? Random, shitty GaaS studios that either release crap and get closed or get closed before releasing anything. Completely lost the touch.
 
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I mean sure, what i've been saying since ages even in neogaf, even IA knows that lol

SSfox is a forum user active on gaming communities like IconEra (an offshoot community originating from former NeoGAF user bases), where they frequently discuss PlayStation strategies, hardware, and leadership under Hermen Hulst (head of PlayStation Studios / Sony Interactive Entertainment). [1, 2]

Discussion Context
    • Exclusivity Debates: User SSfox has expressed strong community stances on IconEra regarding Sony's strategy, stating sharp frustration over potential first-party PlayStation games coming to PC and debating the management choices of executive leadership like Hermen Hulst. [1]
    • Platform Conversations: Comments from the user center around console trajectories, industry pivots toward live-service versus single-player focus, and comparisons with competitors like Nintendo and Xbox. [1, 2]
 
Dr. E99 said:
He’s presided over the most profitable gen in Sony’s history. I doubt he’s going anywhere any time soon.
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Despite his and others leadership

Would you really put them anywhere near the level of Shuhei, house or Kaz?

Eliminate everything that Jim Ryan and Hermen pushed... Would it have resulted in a better generation? Or worse?
 
Bryank75 said:
Despite his and others leadership

Would you really put them anywhere near the level of Shuhei, house or Kaz?

Eliminate everything that Jim Ryan and Hermen pushed... Would it have resulted in a better generation? Or worse?
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DriveClub

The Order

Dreams

Uncharted 4 reboot delay

SSM cancelled new IP

SP cancelled new IP

Sony Japan Studio Failures from PS4

These other execs you remember through rose tinted glasses weren’t nearly as perfect/good as you think
 
James Sawyer Ford said:
DriveClub

The Order

Dreams

Uncharted 4 reboot delay

SSM cancelled new IP

SP cancelled new IP

Sony Japan Studio Failures from PS4

These other execs you remember through rose tinted glasses weren’t nearly as perfect/good as you think
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Not too much on DriveClub now. It was Sony that set them up to fail. They made an excellent product
 
James Sawyer Ford said:
DriveClub

The Order

Dreams

Uncharted 4 reboot delay

SSM cancelled new IP

SP cancelled new IP

Sony Japan Studio Failures from PS4

These other execs you remember through rose tinted glasses weren’t nearly as perfect/good as you think
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Drive club was class

The order was decent and still has people going back to it, the idget wasn't too crazy. Not much of a loss.

Dreams was commercially terrible but creatively quite nice... Shitting down the LBP servers was a bigger negative on that side

Uncharted 4 turned out pretty good but allowing Druckman to push Amy Hennig out was ridiculous and really did damage to the creative integrity of the studio.

Closing down Japan studio was a bigger problem than any of their games not hitting big, they had an audience and some legendary games.

I don't think any of them were perfect actually... I even got annoyed with Shuhei and his recent comments about physical media.

But Totoki, Hermen and Jim have all been disastrous. They are turning the brand to shit...turning fans against PlayStation by the day.

Undoing decades of good will.
 
Can we get a petition to fire Herman hulst? It’ll do better than the physical disc one I’d think.
 
Bryank75 said:
Drive club was class

The order was decent and still has people going back to it, the idget wasn't too crazy. Not much of a loss.

Dreams was commercially terrible but creatively quite nice... Shitting down the LBP servers was a bigger negative on that side

Uncharted 4 turned out pretty good but allowing Druckman to push Amy Hennig out was ridiculous and really did damage to the creative integrity of the studio.

Closing down Japan studio was a bigger problem than any of their games not hitting big, they had an audience and some legendary games.

I don't think any of them were perfect actually... I even got annoyed with Shuhei and his recent comments about physical media.

But Totoki, Hermen and Jim have all been disastrous. They are turning the brand to shit...turning fans against PlayStation by the day.

Undoing decades of good will.
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Shu killing so many great studios really gets glossed over by everyone. It would have avoided all the issues they ran into with GaaS as well. As they would have had studios with that experience
 
I doubt its his decisions but he did want day 1 PC ports, and the studios havent all been organised the best.

He's not good enough thats for sure.

But will they just bring in an even more clueless suit instead, or someone from Insomiac or Asobi
 
Been banging this drum for at least 3 years now, always good to see me being proven right over and over
 
Bryank75 said:
Drive club was class

The order was decent and still has people going back to it, the idget wasn't too crazy. Not much of a loss.

Dreams was commercially terrible but creatively quite nice... Shitting down the LBP servers was a bigger negative on that side

Uncharted 4 turned out pretty good but allowing Druckman to push Amy Hennig out was ridiculous and really did damage to the creative integrity of the studio.

Closing down Japan studio was a bigger problem than any of their games not hitting big, they had an audience and some legendary games.

I don't think any of them were perfect actually... I even got annoyed with Shuhei and his recent comments about physical media.

But Totoki, Hermen and Jim have all been disastrous. They are turning the brand to shit...turning fans against PlayStation by the day.

Undoing decades of good will.
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DriveClub had lots of issues at launch and was delayed, not nearly as exciting as motorstorm series and the studio got shut down. Dreams was in development hell all gen. Uncharted 4 was good, but it took forever and they ended up firing the creative lead with Sony unsure of whether to cancel it. Studio Japan's output was awful during PS4 gen, leading to their closure.

No Sony gen has been perfect, but we got way more high quality big hitting titles right out of the gate on PS5 compared to any other gen. That's why it did so well.

Hermen's mistake was taking Jim's offer which required a huge live service push. Doubt he would have been given the job unless he said yes, so hard to blame him.

Either way, every year Sony has had big games come out. He's not the bad guy you people think.
 
Johnic said:
This. This is a company that used to sign deals with great companies to develop original games and most turned out great. This gen? Random, shitty GaaS studios that either release crap and get closed or get closed before releasing anything. Completely lost the touch.
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In fairness it all started spiralling down post ps3 Gen when they stopped signing the indies that gave Sony the creative edge which bled into their AAA. Killing Driveclub etc.
 
Johnic said:
This. This is a company that used to sign deals with great companies to develop original games and most turned out great. This gen? Random, shitty GaaS studios that either release crap and get closed or get closed before releasing anything. Completely lost the touch.
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Death Stranding 2
Rise of the Ronin
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