Well deserved retirement after 30 years of delivering great stuff.
When he was in Europe, that region became the main market of the brand and leaded a revolution for console gaming, skyrocketing the global installbase market during PS1 and PS2. They built a fanbase so loyal that here in my country even the 599 launch PS3 and Vita sold well.
Then he moved to SIE global leadership team where they made a comeback and finally as CEO the division is achieving the best numbers ever in a lot of areas and is on track to break many records more, while also expanding in different areas like PC, mobile, movies, tv shows and so on.
The big question now is who is going to be the successor? I don't know if they have anyone so has been working there for decades to know the company and the product that well, while also being that megasuccessful at his job running a business.
This is the guy that's pushing to 1billion users.
As I remember he wasn't talking for gaming, but to all their products/services from all their divisions.
Wonder if having a Japanese person as the CEO of PlayStation (and the whole company) is to either strengthen ties with Japanese partners or help with a Japanese acquisition?
There's a team in charge of relationships with 3rd parties, whose boss is Japanese. Inside that SIE team there's another team in charge of relationships with indies, whose boss is also Japanese.
Totoki will be CEO only temporally, only during a few months while they make the transition to the new CEO. Pretty likely will simply continue the same strategy they had until now and everybody at SIE will continue doing whatever they were already doing.
And pretty likely the next CEO will also continue with the same strategy for a while because it's super successful, most likely won't make important changes over what they already were working on, just some day to day tweaks.
ppl just like talking sht about a man who’s devoted 30yrs of his life to the ps brand. Through the dark days of the ps3 era the best preforming region of PlayStation was Europe under Jim Ryan. Ps is currently preforming the best it’s ever done with console sales reaching ps2 levels under Jim Ryan. The man knows how to run a business. Idc what anyone says he’s one of the greatest leaders ps has ever had. This obsession with if he’s is nonsense. Phil’s a gamer look how much he’s fcked up the Xbox brand. Plenty of gamers don’t know sht about running a business. Idc if Jim was a gamer I don’t care if he smoked crack and meth while pissing naked ofc the roof of ps headquarters. The man delivered.
