What are you on about? He ran GG studios and Killzone flopped....he finally got 1 hit game with Horizon and that instantly makes him worthy of becoming Head of PS studios and CEO? Your comment makes no sense at all, I'm not the clueless one. If it was about shipping products on a regular basis, there are way more people who are far more qualified than Hulst.By shipping products on a regular basis when he ran GG studios. People on here really some are clueless. Videogames are an entertainment business. You can invest money into making something and can it a year or two later if things are not meeting milestones/quality.
That’s why Sony is as big as they are when it comes to games anyway.
Hurst, yoshida, barlog, among many others know when to pull the plug. Not everything you greenlite pans out. That’s what management is for. The fact we are getting a more combat bananas focused sequel to Death stranding is telling on PlayStation relationship with kojima productions.
Hurst is one of the big reasons currently for kojima taking another stab at successor to metal gear franchise.
Deviation was started with intentions of a good shooter. Looks like out of all the things being managed Jason bundell didn’t like the game they were trying to make. So he left, more than likely pitched his vision to Herman and higher ups at Sony. Or better yet they had a rough build of something that must have impressed. Because they are secretly working on a game directly under PlayStation. So it must have been more proofed.
Sony didn’t lose a lot out of that deal. Because of Herman checking in on projects like you are supposed to do they intervene early. Instead of wasting millions for another 2-3 years on something that was not coming together.
Its like people have no clue on how many games/ideas get canned on a year to year basis.
Since taking over PS studios in 2019, he has nothing to show for it. Nothing but cancelled live service games and finally Concord, which is dead on arrival, and SHOULD'VE been cancelled. All the games we've got this gen have been from Shuhei's tenure as head of Worldwide Studios and now even as the "indie guy" he's still 100x more productive than Hulst