Jason Schreier/Bloomberg: PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is stepping down

[Airbus]

Playstation next boss Japanese is great news

Bring back headquarters back to Japan

Put an end to PC ports

Get Square Enix and Konami

Enough with Gaas and PC port shit

Lets do it

 

[AshHunter216]

Is Totoki the ceo of Sony or of PlayStation along with Jim Ryan?

He's over Sony as a whole, but will only temporarily be in charge of Playstation until they find someone.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

I'd give him until sometime tomorrow saying he congratulates him on his long years of service and wishes him the best in his future endeavors or retirement for the good guy Phil P.R.

2 people already posted his tweet above you

 

[Gods&Monsters]

I'd give him until sometime tomorrow saying he congratulates him on his long years of service and wishes him the best in his future endeavors or retirement for the good guy Phil P.R.

He wrote exactly like an AI robot "Alexa write me a fakass tweet"

 

[On Demand]

Really surprised at this. Wow. Wonder what happened.

Stress from the Activision buyout and not being able to stop it from happening?

PlayStation fans not taking a liking to him?

Just normal Retirement?

I appreciate and respect what he did for the PlayStation brand in Europe. It couldn’t have gone any better.

Did not like his PS first party PC support strategy. Although that probably was a decision from Sony corp. It was Shawn Layden who first started to talk about PC.

Hopefully the new CEO pushes back on PC ports and goes back to focusing on PS5 only games.

And buy Square Enix already.

I have written a speech!

(actually, no. I stole a speech)

I hope we can get a really great, pro gamer, exclusive content focused leader next. That cancels all PC ports and buys some cool studios to add to first party and also focuses on hardware / consoles 100%.

 

[Deleted member 223]

I think from a business perspective the gaas pivot might be defensible, as much as core gamers dislike it. Just depends on how badly they monetize it. There are good gaas games like deep rock galactic (free battle pass, rewards go in loot pool for playing the game after season expires so there's no fomo, free expansion dlc, only monetization is separate cosmetic packs to support the devs and they're entire packs instead of individual pieces), and there are bad ones like destiny (deleting paid content, forced fomo, paid expansions+extra mtx on everything, fomo, underdeliver on everything)

GAAS is above all a monetization model with gambling characteristics, the game just being the vehicle. From a business standpoint it's something you should try to get your hands into cause it has proven successful and makes money for those that find success. But you go in with the understanding that the majority do not find success and flop. Thus, from a portfolio POV, you want to be very careful about the split of your resources. Ideally you want to invest in your differentiation strengths much more than in this segment where success is wild. My personal beef with GAAS as far as the PS porfolio is concerned is the degree to which the split is configured, on top of the PC support side of GAAS.

The PlayStation platform rests on PlayStation hardware, you simply can not devalue your hardware vis a vis direct competition in PC for the sake of profit/revenue that is, above all, not guaranteed.

 

[KiryuRealty]

He wrote exactly like an AI robot "Alexa write me a fakass tweet"

He probably had the PR intern crank out that tweet.

 

[Say1nMan]

Keyword for the new CEO is balance. The new CEO will be tasked with trying to create a balance within PlayStation handling the new areas (GAAS, PC, etc..) that the division has been expanding to and keeping the high quality of the core identity of PlayStation which is AAA single player games.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

If he was so incompetent then why is playstation slaughtering Xbox & does Microsoft need to gobble up publishers left & right to 'compete'

 

[Entropi]

When was Jim a liar?

 

[Petekilla]

I'm just glad he's out, he's always rubbed me the wrong way and I can tell he isn't a gamer just an asshat exec.

Who cares if he isn’t a gamer, you nerd. Lol What, do you want him to be your friend? How is being a “gamer” exec working out for the Xbox brand?

 

[Gamernyc78]

Who cares if he isn’t a gamer, you nerd. Lol What, do you want him to be your friend? How is being a “gamer” exec working out for the Xbox brand?

Bite my.... Lol whose a gamer? Phil? If you believe he is one you have to be the most oblivious, out of touch nerd in the world don't be a just bcus he wears a gamer shirt once in awhile and uses talking points doesnt mean he's a gamer.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

When was Jim a liar?

I guess the we believe in generations thing but its not like the pandemic & the cost of living didn't effect the adoption of the ps5 , Phil Spencer however is constantly caught lying but the vast majority ignore it

 

[Airbus]

When was Jim a liar?

Jimbo : pc is our competitor

Also jimbo : keep porting games to PC

 

[anonpuffs]

Bite my.... Lol whose a gamer? Phil? If you believe he is you have to be the most oblivious, out of touch nerd in the world don't be a

Phil is a gamer in the same way tim allen is a handyman

 

[AshHunter216]

If he was so incompetent then why is playstation slaughtering Xbox & does Microsoft need to gobble up publishers left & right to 'compete'
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Who cares what some braindead Xbox fanboys on twitter have to say?

 

[BroodCorp]

Sometimes you can look at a person and see they’re not about shit. Always felt this way about Jim Ryan.

 

[Arminius]

YES!!!

 

[flaccidsnake]

Jimbo : pc is our competitor

Also jimbo : keep porting games to PC

Every game publisher competes with Playstation and also publishes on Playstation.

 

[Dabaus]

He's over Sony as a whole, but will only temporarily be in charge of Playstation until they find someone.

I kind of feel like that’s a good thing. The CEO taking over the division seems like it’s a priority for him.