Sony Has A Crucial Decision To Make After Jim Ryan's Retirement.
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On the contrary id say they need a Japanese resident with Mobile ties. Strengthen ties with Japanese publishers and further gain a foothold in China should be priority IMO. Invest in MIYOHO should also be a priority if they can. Thanks to "wokeness", DEI initiatives, and and general mismanagement, Western gaming is literally dying before our eyes. Time to focus on where your already strong AND where the money is.
Edit: Western Publishers
-Bethesda, MS owned. Redfall was a disaster, starfield mega flopped and their stuck with that horrible engine. Besides Doom, nothing of value and weve yet to see how that looks under MS.
ABK- MS owned. If leaks are to be beleived Blizzard is a shambling corpse, COD is about to leave its yearly cadence, and king is doing well. If COD takes a year off and something fills the void or they have a bad game, it will be the biggest wasted invest in history. It inevitably already is.
EA- Probably in the best shape of all western publishers. Fifa/football game should do well and they have apex legends. Dead space remake was well received and hopefully mass effect reboot is a hit.
Ubisoft: Nothing but a downward trajectory. I could see Avatar as small hit though but long looks choppy.
Embracer: Total Collapse.
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I agree especially with the woke bs being shoehorned in and diff western philosophies. I resonate more with the Japanese philosophies of gaming generally (I live in Nyc, America btw lol)
Nuh, they wouldn't put someone in between if she were fit.Im thinking Lin Tao will be his replacement:
Leadership Spotlight: Lin Tao SVP, Finance, Corporate Development and Strategy
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) values expertise, especially in leadership roles. Few represent this dedication to long-term growth as much as Lin Tao, who serves as SIE’s SVP, Finance, Corporate Development and Strategy. As a Sony Group veteran, Lin has shown her incredible wealth of...sonyinteractive.com
I mean, if they knew Jim has to retire, why permanent replacement was not ready? Why is there a transitional CEO?
Some questions need to be answered.
He should be exclusively covering the corner flag of an over 70s 5 a side soccer competition for priests.
Whoever replaces Jim has to know how to communicate better with the Ps community and no go a whole 2 years with barely any first party announcements. Also cut down on the number of gaas games, no pc ports for sp games and invest more in smaller/mid size games to fill in the gaps when there are no triple AAA releases. Also invest more in first party vr games.
A big craw for me is Sony's BC support. I find that having to first of all setup dummy region accounts because some PS1 games were only fit for US's BC service... And then those PS3 digital PSOne purchases are stranded to be ridiculous. Or games that didn't migrate from PSNow to PS+. They were bought digitally under their BC program with the expectation of working going forward (well, obviously). And I say that knowing PS+ BC tier probably still outnumbers what's on XB's, I just want the ability to have a full meal. I didn't feel like the... history of the brand was understood or the audience respected properly, based on the moves Jim made, coupled with the opportunities he missed, or the statements he said. I hope next PS President understands BC and IP's roles, as far as strengthening PS's services, and wider Sony opportunities in media/anime/evo/themepark cross-promotions.
whoever replaces ryan should tank playstation profits and underfund successful aaa development in other words.
No, they said CUT PC ports, not pursue more ports. Ok, sport? Run along.
Those pc ports are barely bringing anything to make it worth continuing
Jim Ryan:
"recognise the economics of game development, which are not always straightforward"
"we expect those [games] to have slightly greater sales and profitability, reflecting our confidence in the long-term installed base of PS5, as well as the fact that those games will make their way to PC"
We've got it straight from the horse's mouth. You just invent your own fantasy world.
This is the riskiest part.
As for monetization, I think that this is inevitable that Sony will keep working on the GaaS aspect and other streams of income. I just hope they don't sacrifice their existing studios and even expand their single player games production and stay focused on this instead of trying to get some of that mobile gaming money.
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PlayStation's Jim Ryan on PC: 'I think more is better'
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan talks about more PlayStation 5 game releases on PC, says that PlayStation fans approve of 2-3 year cadence.
I don't know what to tell you because you've been confused for a good few hours now. I'm talking about @Umar. Umar said, about Jim's successor:
You tried to dunk on him but got slammed into the pavement by my response, then you started dredging up Jim Ryan quotes.
Jim Ryan can't prove Jim Ryan was right about PC ports of SP titles. I don't dispute Jim Ryan said those things. Jim Ryan is wrong. Jim Ryan is gone, and so is your dream of more PC ports of SP titles.
Oh well at the end of the day Jim is a successful millionaire who, despite some negative decisions, did a great deal for Playstation. Meanwhile, nobody will know who Destin is since he's an irrelevant media parasite and there are millions of them.
Sounds as a candidate with a lot of chances to get the position:Im thinking Lin Tao will be his replacement:
Leadership Spotlight: Lin Tao SVP, Finance, Corporate Development and Strategy
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) values expertise, especially in leadership roles. Few represent this dedication to long-term growth as much as Lin Tao, who serves as SIE’s SVP, Finance, Corporate Development and Strategy. As a Sony Group veteran, Lin has shown her incredible wealth of...
- Sony is market leader in consoles, game subs and cloud gaming, it's starting in PC (already top 20 publisher), expanded their IPs to cinemas and tv and their next step, in addition to get stronger in all these areas, will be to highly grow in mobile.
- She has worked on building the current SIE strategy, knows the strategy
- Has been at Sony since the PS2 (in SIE back then 5 years and last year came back), knows the company and gaming
- And also was in Sony Mobile/Ericsson, knows mobile
- Also worked in the HQ coordinating and planning the future of Sony and leaded business development
- Worked closely with Hirai and the current CEO, who may support her to get the role
- She is a woman and not white, which gives extra woke points for PR and marketing
He's a great candidate too, I think that with Lin Tao is maybe the person with more changes
- 23 years working at SIE
- Worked always at SIE as marketing/business management/product planning
- Currently works as SIE SVP of Marketing
- He also is a Bungie board of directors member, so may help with their integration
- He's also head of PSN, so may push harder the PC (and maybe also mobile in the future) PSN store
- He's white, heterosexual and male, so has less chances to get the promotion regarding woke PR points
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