I'm trying to read between the lines and some of the language and implications if I take it fairly literally is worrying me...but I will wait and see.
PlayStation Announces Hermen Hulst And Hideaki Nishino As Its New CEO's!
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I'm trying to read between the lines and some of the language and implications if I take it fairly literally is worrying me...but I will wait and see.
A Message from Hiroki Totoki - A New Era at Sony Interactive Entertainment
The following message was sent to Sony Interactive Entertainment employees today It brings me great pleasure to announce that I have decided on the succession strategy for the role of CEO at SIE. Over the last decade, SIE has grown tremendously, building upon our continuous successes in...
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I have faith in Nintendo, the Switch 2 will be the only console. Sony and xbox will port their games to it
Hopefully it's not as bad as many of us think.
But calling it "Platforms" has spooked me, I cant lie.
Yep, Nintendo is also my bet for the last remaining successful traditional console manufacturer, their position on portable consoles is just too strong and they are too good at making money in their niche markets.
PlayStation is too similar to PC these days and competes too directly with it while being worse at pretty much everything and putting all their games on PC (while PC devs, Valve in particular, don't return the favor).
For many years every time Gabe talked about console he threw PlayStation under the bus and praised Xbox, Valve is very forward thinking and has probably recognized Sony and Nintendo as their targets a long time ago.
Where are the games Hiroki?
A Message from Hiroki Totoki - A New Era at Sony Interactive Entertainment
The following message was sent to Sony Interactive Entertainment employees today It brings me great pleasure to announce that I have decided on the succession strategy for the role of CEO at SIE. Over the last decade, SIE has grown tremendously, building upon our continuous successes in...
It can disrupt it, but it can also lead to laser focus on improvements in each category.
Platforms isn't just hardware by the way. It's PlayStation Network and the eventual PC Launcher.
Sony is growing too large to be effectively managed by 1 person. You can get away with it if you have a really experienced CEO like a Tim Cook, but for gaming, it was smart to split the company in two.
What it also means that I don't think people will like is that this gives a greater importance to Sony supporting PC.
I agree. 2 ceos is better to supervise whole Playstation. It should benefit PS as both can dive in deeper in their roles.
Worst part, hulst is still there.
2 CEOs is necessary to oversee the expansion to PC and mobile and make sure concerns about the PlayStation console don't get in the way.
This also creates a path of promotion for everyone on both sides of PlayStation.
Studio heads/Creative directors were never considered for real leadership. Now they can be. And the software devs no longer report up to hardware.
Rather than a marketing guy or sales guy, you have a software engineer in charge of hardware.
Studio heads/Creative directors were never considered for real leadership. Now they can be. And the software devs no longer report up to hardware.
Rather than a marketing guy or sales guy, you have a software engineer in charge of hardware.
Hulst is the reason Kojima works with Sony and was the person to encourage him to make a spiritual successor to Metal Gear.
He can stay.
It really should have been Ted Price, that man would whip PlayStation studios into efficiencyWhy Hulst instead of Ted Price or Shu? Fucking sad, what a waste of a good publisher.
Steam it is then.
You are probably the type of person that had no idea if Phil Spencer would work out as the top guy at Xbox, I knew from the start that he sucked.
Hulst isn't as obvious but so far everything points to him being pretty bad and the guy behind their awful PC push.
Damn… Hermen was the one who wanted PC releases faster and supposedly Jim blocked it. This sucks
Yeah let's undermine Andrew House and give Hulst credit
Herman was the one who gave the decima engine with no strings attached to Kojima when has looking around for an engine for his game
