Almost Everything you listed was because of Shu and not Hermen.
Not true, Shu has been working only with indies since 4 years ago.
It's true that some (most) of the released games were originally greenlighted by Shu but how they evolved since 2019, how they grew their teams, how they were provided by acquired support and porting studios to further support them, and how they have been marketed since 2019 is because of Hermen and Jim.
We are just seeing Hermen and Jim's vision and of course it was a massive failure.
Blatant lie, it isn't a failure because they are performing better than ever in all fronts and breaking records of all kinds. Including 1st party game sales and awards.
It's also Hermen and Jim decision to invest more money than ever on non-GaaS SP traditional console 1st party exclusives, also in 2nd party and also in 3rd party console exclusives.
Even Shu has indirectly spoken about the dangers of GaaS recently..
No, he didn't.
And listing PC ports as a net positive? Some of you have lost y'all minds like Playstation leadership.
I was only listing their output to highlight that your sentence about 'their 3rd party team was basically carrying the entire division' was blatantly wrong.
And yes, to get extra hundreds of millions of profit across different years it's a positive because helps to fund brand new AAA games, which get more and more expensive every generation and by give them extra revenue sources make them a safer bet.
And as factual numbers show, help them reach more players without negatively hurting console game sales or console hardware sales, which are better than ever. That includes existing fans who want to play the games with more powerful specs, players from countries where there aren't consoles or people who only play on PC but would like to play Sony games, and after playing them a small portion of them may end buying a PS5 to play all their console only games, whose number will grow every year because their yearly output will be bigger than the pc releases one.
I'm almost sure he's handicapped the division over the years.
No, Jim invested more than ever in all the fronts that the division had. The division has now more resources than they ever had.
His out of touch move to almost give Microsoft total control of the PSN backend for streaming and data centers proved this.
You keep telling blatant lies, this is totally wrong. Sony didn't give anything to MS regarding cloud gaming other than to allow them to use their cloud gaming patented concepts for whatever price they agreed.
A data center is only a building prepared to store servers. So companies can rent space to store there their servers as it's the case of Sony's PSN and dedicated cloud gaming servers (case in which obviously aren't touched by the owner of the datacenter, it's like saying that because you rented a parking slot the owner of the parking drives or owns your car) or in cases where -unlike in Sony's cloud gaming servers, because they are modified PS4 and PS3 hardware- they can use normal PC hardware as servers, they can rent server usage.
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