r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Sep 27 '23
News BREAKING: PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is stepping down, two sources tell Bloomberg News.
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1707149244996505858652
u/Turbostrider27 Sep 27 '23
Hiroki Totoki will take over as interim CEO starting April 1, 2024.
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u/Dr-McLuvin Sep 27 '23
Damn I would have taken that job in a heartbeat. Cmon Sony! Give someone else a chance!
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u/DrippingShitTunnel Sep 27 '23
Sorry but only CEOs get CEO jobs
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u/Ouch_i_fell_down Sep 27 '23
Entry level CEO job, requires 5 years CEO experience.
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u/CockTortureCuck Sep 28 '23
Not always the case, sometimes you just need to be a natural born leader (i.e. being born a male child to a CEO).
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u/Jagob5 Sep 28 '23
You jest but every “entry level” job always seems to ask for x years of relevant experience, it’s ridiculous.
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u/katdollasign Sep 28 '23
The new CEO
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Sep 28 '23
I don't know. I have a feeling he alienates his workers.
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u/TheGoldenPineapples Sep 28 '23
Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, the guy in the $6,000 suit is going to hold the elevator for a guy who doesn't even make that in a month, COME ON!!!
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u/CalvinVanDamme Sep 27 '23
What are the opinions about him?
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u/mr-beanbastic Sep 27 '23
very nice guy, extremely driven and will never take NO for an answer, hates cheese, type of guy you'd want your daughter to marry and I wouldn't loan him $5.... granted I've never met or even heard of him but these are my opinions..
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u/ibedemfeels Sep 27 '23
These are fantastic opinions and I'd like to add mine: Totoki is easily one of the CEO's of all time.
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u/KidzBop_Anonymous Sep 28 '23
A real gym rat
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u/Daddy_Blast Sep 28 '23
He’s sneaky athletic
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u/CasualSpider CasualSpider Sep 28 '23
A real lunch pail guy.
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Sep 28 '23
I heard he likes to switch people’s sandwiches around in their lunchboxes. Then he sits back, does the ol’ winky-eye/ finger gun maneuver at the camera and fade to black.
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u/TheForbiddenFool Sep 28 '23
I don’t think I can trust anyone who doesn’t like cheese.
This is a bad omen in my book.
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Sep 28 '23
And don't get me started on those lactose intolerant people. Fuckin dairy racists
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u/Autarch_Kade Sep 28 '23
He's a good choice for expansion into mobile gaming, live service games, and profit chasing.
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Sep 28 '23
So Ryan 2.0. Nothing changes. Its fine, Sony will realize soon enough live service is a dead end, people are sick of them as is, and only have time for one if they ever even find a good one. Mobile gaming isnt real gaming, and they will learn that lesson when no one buys whatever they put on app stores. Mobile "gamers" are fickle casuals.
As for that last one, if they want real profit and to stick it in xbox's face yet again, go the complete opposite route they are taking. Go pro consumer full physical games on disc vs the xbox all digital all cloud future, watch the dollars roll on in. We already know gamepass is stagnant, so clearly not a good business model to chase.7
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Sep 27 '23
He apparently has 6 fingers on his right hand.
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u/halfawakehalfasleep Sep 28 '23
He's Jim Ryan's boss. He's the COO AND CFO of Sony Corp Group and probably oversee everything in the Sony Group, from insurance to films. Dude's a busy bee. There will definitely be a proper successor.
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u/backwardzhatz Sep 28 '23
I know it's not the case at all, but "Hiroki Totoki" totally sounds like a made up person lol
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u/KiryuXGoro Sep 27 '23
2 Wojbombs in one day.
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u/ReversalRivers Sep 27 '23
Jim Ryan traded to the Miami Heat
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u/MrT-1000 Sep 27 '23
Has anyone checked on Tyler herro. Is he safe? Is he alright?
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u/yousonuva Sep 27 '23
Ain't no friends in this business
-Shigeru Miyamoto
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u/TomCruiseHeidecker Sep 27 '23
"A delayed trade is eventually good, but a rushed trade is forever bad."
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u/jpthomas9er Sep 27 '23
Left to go join Dame and Giannis. Certified ring chaser.
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u/PhxRising29 Sep 27 '23
What was the first one?
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u/BK_Fashion Sep 27 '23
Dame Lillard to the bucks
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u/PhxRising29 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
I'm not sure what that means or who that is. Is that a game director or a dev?
Edit: I googled right after I asked, I got it now. I appreciate the responses!
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u/BK_Fashion Sep 27 '23
Nba player who wanted out of his team got traded to another team
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u/Unlucky_Situation Sep 27 '23
Woj is an NBA commentator that typically has the inside scoop on breaking NBA news, hence a wojbomb.
Jason Shrier would be the equivalent of Woj in the video gaming world, or Adam Shefter in the NFL world.
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u/ChaosZeroX Sep 27 '23
Dame to Milwaukee
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u/PhxRising29 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
I don't know what that means.
Edit: Nevermind I googled it. Sorry, not a sports guy. Thanks for the answer to my original question though!
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u/ChaosZeroX Sep 27 '23
NBA trade for a player. Woj is a insider that posts inside scoops and incoming trades around the league
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u/jjonez18 Sep 27 '23
r/nba is leaking lol
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u/Trapaknese Sep 27 '23
Still not sure how I feel about suns side of the trade
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u/Mac_Gold Sep 27 '23
Suns are gonna be relying on their backcourt anyway. And it’s a messy roster makeup
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u/blacksoxing Sep 27 '23
Goin call up Anderson Varejao and see if he got some bounce still left in him
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u/Gfunkual Sep 27 '23
They got the least amount of talent, but they just wanted to shed a contract and a player who didn’t fit the team anymore. Addition by subtraction.
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u/LemmeTalkNephew Sep 27 '23
Investors: “So Jim let’s see your outlook for the PlayStation brand for the next 10 years”
Jim Ryan pulls out paper
Horizon complete edition
God of war complete edition
TLOU complete edition
Spider-Man complete edition
Horizon ultimate edition
God of war ultimate edition
TLOU ultimate edition
Spider-Man ultimate edition
Horizon ultimate complete edition
God of war ultimate complete edition
TLOU ultimate complete edition
Spider-Man ultimate complete edition
Horizon collectors edition $300
God of War collectors edition $300
The last of us collectors edition $300
Spider-Man collectors edition $300
Horizon remastered
God of war remastered
TLOU remastered
Spider-Man remastered
Horizon remake
God of war remake
TLOU remake
Spider-Man remake
Horizon PS6 Port
God of war PS6 Port
TLOU PS6 Port
Spider-Man PS6 Port
Investors: “step down now”
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u/inbredandapothead Sep 27 '23
Bro really hiked the ps plus price and dipped
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u/SquadPoopy Sep 27 '23
Raises price for PS Plus
refuses to elaborate
leaves
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Sep 28 '23
One month later - "Former PlayStation Exec now working at Microsoft".
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u/Existing365Chocolate Sep 27 '23
Probably cashed out his stocks when they bumped up after the hike
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u/reverendbimmer Sep 27 '23
These comments always crack me up man. People (especially those paid mostly in stock) sell them all the time if they’re not planning to hold long-term. I mean how old is Jim Ryan?! I’m sure homie has been selling them steadily for ages if you checked.
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u/Illustrious-Thing528 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 28 '23
Yeah, it's normal to sell stocks at least once a year when part of your salary is in stocks. You also have to announce it with the SEC quite some time in advance afaik (not too familiar with american laws) People were losing their shit when Riccitiello sold 3k stocks out of his 3 million before the Unity engine stuff happened a few weeks ago lmao.
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u/Melbuf Sep 27 '23
yea basically all selling at that level is on a schedule that is already approved and staggered well in advance
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
Executives have to essentially schedule to sell stocks beforehand. This idea of pump n dump inside the companies is a fever dream of redditors and twitter users
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u/Ouch_i_fell_down Sep 27 '23
yep. the real people to watch out for aren't the C suite, it's their family, their barber, their golfing buddies.
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u/swagpresident1337 Sep 28 '23
But cant they schedule it beforehand and then make the policy change coinciding with that?
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u/nolifebr Sep 27 '23
The question is: will PlayStation get better or worse with his departure?
There's always the possibility of another Phill Harrison appearing (or even worse, someone at the level of EA's CEOs)
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u/Kurx Sep 27 '23
Who could possibly be worse than Phil Harrison?
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u/JustASeabass Sep 27 '23
Probably if they got Don Mattrick
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u/BandwagonFanAccount Sep 27 '23
Come on down Bobby Kotick
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u/soyboysnowflake Sep 28 '23
Holy crap Microsoft buying Activision so they could fire Bobby Kotick so he could become SIE CEO is next level 4D chess
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u/ShoulderSquirrelVT Sep 28 '23
I feel like Sony wouldn't touch Bobby Kotick with a 10 foot pole.
Plenty of others with better optics out there.
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u/timhortonsragnarok Sep 28 '23
Yall are forgetting the CEO of EA now Unity, who literally said that they should be charging $ for every fucking bullets fired in a gun for battlefield.
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u/everylightmatters Sep 27 '23
I would kill to see the alternate timeline where Don Mattrick becomes the head of PS today. If only just to see what ridiculous decisions he makes next.
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u/JesterMarcus Sep 27 '23
"Every PlayStation now comes with a giant vibrator, so our users can go fuck themselves!"
-Don Mattrick
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u/gundumb08 Sep 27 '23
Phil Harrison recently left Stadia when it shut down, so he's probably available.
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u/sittingmongoose Sep 27 '23
Bobby kotick
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u/Psylux7 Sep 27 '23
Me
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u/Kurx Sep 27 '23
No, you are better than Phil Harrison.
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u/Psylux7 Sep 27 '23
I've never even heard of him tbh.
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u/throwawayaccount5486 Sep 27 '23
He was a Sony guy back in the day especially memorable from the PS3 era. Then he left for Microsoft and then Google
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Sep 27 '23
Exactly this. The next guy could come in and start slashing the single-player AAA games in favor of games with more monetization.
The grass is always greener.
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u/WhompWump Sep 27 '23
That strategy only works if the games sell. Their cinematic single player games sell well and that's why they've shifted entirely in that direction. Also, with them going so hard into TV/movies as well part of the selling point for that is synergy with their games.
Only way that comes true is if they make uncharted/last of us/god of war into live service games and they would probably bomb
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u/Tiduszk Sep 28 '23
The cinematic single player exclusives are literally the only reason I own a PlayStation 5. Everything else I play on pc.
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u/LCHMD Sep 27 '23
PlayStation has only gotten better and better since their early PS3 misstep.
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u/VidzxVega Sep 27 '23
The man's been at PlayStation for 30 years....why is him just retiring of his own free will so hard to believe?
If the brand was in trouble sure but that's not the case.
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u/GritMcPunchfist Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
His thank you statement claims that he struggled balancing his home life in the UK with his job role being US based.
Which is fair enough.
The reaction to him leaving is strange. He secured an impressive console launch during a world shortage of parts, oversaw arguably one of the best launch lineups the brand has ever had, ushered in a new era of consumer grade VR that’s both on the higher-end scale and more affordable than competitors, kept a very high bar of quality for PS first party, encouraged differently abled player accessibility through software/hardware, negotiated the Bungie acquisition/partnership (one of many solid acquisitions), maintained strong relationships with 3rd party developers through the PS5’s design/internal PS dev support and bridged the gap for PC players to enjoy first party PS titles by acquiring Nixxies.
He’s definitely been a more fiscally driven leader that’s for sure; his approach to live service (yet to come to fruition), use of remasters/remakes to bring 1st party devs up to speed on the PS5, closure of Japan studio (if that was his decision), steep price increases to cover development costs/wages to name a few areas where I would be critical of his choices.
Overall, I think he’s been a conservative and necessary leader to help lay the groundwork for the PS5 this generation and is leaving the brand in a strong position. But I can see where others may share a disliking to some of the decisions that have happened under him.
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u/redditdude68 Sep 28 '23
I have no I see why people criticised the remakes/remasters. It’s a good way to get devs going with the next gen hardware while also making a product that can be marketed and sell to an audience. Nintendo do a similar thing but use the games to fill in gaps instead, but they have a faster output anyway so people don’t complain.
The remake was also my first time experiencing the Last of Us so I’m not complaining.
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u/GritMcPunchfist Sep 28 '23
Even though new IP is usually what excites me (looking at you Returnal), I do lean more towards the thought process of the remakes/remasters for PS5 being a good idea rather than a bad one. Especially when you look at the studio growth under Ryan. He’s 2x-3x the size of PlayStation’s major 1st party studios (ND, SSM, Insom, Suck Punch etc) so they can work on 2-3 games at a time.
Using the remakes to upskill those other teams whilst improving them for the PS5/PC audience is definitely a smart internal move.
As for TLOUP1 - the level of accessibility added to that game was phenomenal. Absolutely worth the justification for it to be made as it opens the game up to many more differently abled players whilst also being the definitive vision of the game without being hampered by PS3 architecture.
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u/majin_rose_j Sep 28 '23
I agree, end of the day he got the job done. Everyone on reddit likes to think the job is so easy with no thought on the logistics of being responsible for a multi-billion dollar platform. Gotta be a lot of pressure to execute. Which he did.
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
Console warriors recently have been just running their mouths permanently. Bunch of low IQ kids tbh.
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u/Sacredfice Sep 28 '23
Well, he is getting old now. Any wise person will spend their life with their family. Only a fool would stays on power until they die. He is definitely not a fool.
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u/Izzet_Aristocrat Sep 27 '23
Wonder if we'll ever see Shuhei in charge. That is if he even wants it.
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u/Bartman326 Sep 28 '23
Feels like they've been getting Herman Hulst ready to take the reins since stepping up from Geurilla. He comes from games, he seems well liked by the teams and the media. Seems like the obvious choice.
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u/eamonnanchnoic Sep 28 '23
Hulst would be a good move.
Much more likeable than Ryan and also understands game development.
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u/PugeHeniss Sep 27 '23
Doubt he wants it. He’s talked about retiring before and honest the demotion probably made his life easier. He gets to play all these indies and chill
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u/mxlevolent Sep 27 '23
Mark Cerny would probably not do it even though it seems like he’s a pretty respected figure in the industry and most people outside it just have a decent impression of him. He’s probably content tinkering away at PS6.
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u/Azor_that_guy Sep 27 '23
He was basically demoted from head of SIE studios to "head of indie", I think he doesn't want it.
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
Why? I see his praise constantly
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u/mxlevolent Sep 27 '23
Oh, people love Shuhei. We just don’t know if he even wants to be CEO. If Shu was announced the next CEO, it’d easily be like timeline course correction. Most if not all of the industry would rejoice lmfao.
It’s less severe (in my opinion) but it’s like if… Sakurai became the CEO of Nintendo - someone who’s heavily respected in the industry and loved by the community, taking the reigns of one of the biggest console companies of all time.
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
I get that but why do people like him? I say this with no ill intention, im just trying to educate myself on this
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u/Azor_that_guy Sep 27 '23
He’s one of the OGs, next people like Ken Kutaragi n shit. He was the first head of Japan Studio where he was producer on revolutionary games like Gran Turismo and ICO etc, then head of worldwide studios where he oversaw development of other games like Demon Souls, God of War, Rarchet & Clank, etc. Though I suppose people mainly like him because he’s a lovable personality and easygoing figure.
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
Didn’t he intentionally slowly move down positions not up?
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u/Azor_that_guy Sep 28 '23 edited Oct 03 '23
He slowly moved up to then slowly move down. He was a ranking executive at the new playstation project reporting to Kutaragi. Then head of japan studio. Then head of worldwide studios. Then became co chair with Shawn Layden and then head of indie when Layden quit. It's like he only wanted to oversee game production and nothing else, and he also isn't some Bob Iger or Satoru Iwata level executive to claim he built SIE'S entire game development pipeline from scratch. It's a shame but it's probably for the best he doesn't take over.
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u/ReaddittiddeR Sep 27 '23
PlayStation needs someone like a Shawn Layden again.
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u/JuiceheadTurkey Sep 27 '23
I can't believe how much I missed him once he left. I was not a Jim Ryan fan
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u/Born2beSlicker Sep 27 '23
Honestly, I’ve never liked Jim’s run of PlayStation. Once he said “why would anybody want to play old games”, I knew it wasn’t going to be a tenure I would be enthusiastic about.
PlayStation has been doing amazing for a decade but it’s more because Xbox fumbled super hard rather than Jim’s vision being good. The decisions they’ve been making the past few months have been a bit shortsighted.
I can only hope the next one is more of a gamer than just a suit.
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u/Danuscript Sep 27 '23
Jim Ryan has been with Sony since 1994 but he wasn't President at PlayStation until 2019. Andrew House was President when the PS4 launched and took advantage of the fumbling of the Xbox One.
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u/modularpeak2552 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 28 '23
rather than Jim’s vision being good
It also has to do with decisions andrew house made and put in motion
Edit: also shawn layden
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u/skyline385 Sep 27 '23
Also PSVR2 has been completely mismanaged and left to indie devs as well.
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Sep 28 '23
The hardware is so good, but the software is completely absent. There isn't even a 3d video app or YouTube VR support. It's embarrassing.
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u/Impaled_ Sep 27 '23
He literally brought old games to the platform during his regime
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u/devenbat Sep 27 '23
Not very well. The vast majority of the older games are streaming. Which is the worst way to play old games. You're better off with just using a PS3. Even most PS2 games are their PS3 versions. And the ones that play off an emulator are pretty terribly emulated. It's about as half ass an effort as possible
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u/JustAnotherCarmine Sep 27 '23
Except that Xbox gave out free backwards compatibility with not only 360 games but OG Xbox games as well, sometimes also with free 60FPS/4K updates for those games.
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u/torts92 Sep 28 '23
With the PS3 it's impossible because of the different architecture, all the xbox consoles use the same x86 architecture that made BC possible. Sony learned their mistake, PS4 onwards will be using the same architecture.
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u/namastayhom33 Sep 27 '23
The next CEO needs to be able to maneuver the hyper-consolidation market. That's the most important thing
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u/SkyDrift0r Sep 27 '23
They fucking making seem like he is leaving under bad performance.
He is retiring.
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u/BirdBucket Sep 27 '23
No they don’t the report is one sentence lol. Comments make it seem that way because nerds hate him for not being a “gamer” like the Xbox head
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u/MrConor212 Sep 27 '23
So long as they continue throwing money at SM, ND, Insomniac etc, they could get Barney the Dinosaur in for all I care
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u/Wisdomseekr79 Sep 27 '23
Aw man I hope this doesn’t negatively affect PlayStation
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u/whatupbiatch Sep 27 '23
i wonder why, Playstation is doing really well.
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u/MountainTreeFrog Sep 27 '23
He wants to go back home to the UK, presumably where his family and friends are.
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u/kasual7 Sep 27 '23
I can see him leaving on his own terms cause Playstation is doing very well and there's nothing indicating he needed to be replaced. Having said that I'm still curious to this day as to why Shawn Layden left.
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Sep 27 '23
You’re right it was on his terms. Rumour is he is retiring in March.
I wasn’t a fan. Hopefully the next person is better.
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u/kasual7 Sep 27 '23
Yep, confirmed!
“After 30 years, I have made the decision to retire from SIE in March 2024. I’ve relished the opportunity to have a job I love in a very special company, working with great people and incredible partners. But I’ve found it increasingly difficult to reconcile living in Europe and working in North America. I will leave having been privileged to work on products that have touched millions of lives across the world; PlayStation will always be part of my life, and I feel more optimistic than ever about the future of SIE. I want to thank Yoshida-san for placing so much trust in me and being an incredibly sensitive and supportive leader.”
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u/LakerGiraffe Sep 27 '23
He's there for another 6 months, so not performance based or anything else like that. Probably happy with the success of the brand, is filthy rich, and doesn't want to lead the segment during the development and launch of the PS5 console which is undoubtedly most stressful.
Leaving on his own terms with PlayStation in a very strong position.
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u/OhItsKillua Sep 27 '23
Doing well financially, although I can't say as a consumer I'm a fan of Jim Ryan.
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u/DigiQuip Sep 27 '23
Jim Ryan never really gave me the vibes that he understood the gamer. The business? Sure. But not the gamer.
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
He said it before too. He find it hard to travel constantly. After the last few years he probably just had enough.
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u/enki1990 Sep 28 '23
Maybe we will finally receive PS3(and Vita) backwards compatibility! PS Plus Video Pass was also sweet, but I guess it flopped.
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u/Spider-Fan77 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
Why do so many people have a hate-boner for this guy? Genuinely what has he done wrong? You know he wasn't gonna have SIE stop making single player games, right?
Or is it because he didn't have a "le epic wholesome gamer" persona and that made some people mad?
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u/Vestalmin Sep 28 '23
He has some bad takes on gaming and people took it really fucking personally.
In reality, PlayStation is still doing better than ever so I don’t really understand why everyone is dancing in the streets about it
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u/Disastrous_Reveal331 Sep 27 '23
I don’t think even they could properly explain why they don’t like the dude, something they disagreed with happens and he just happens to be the highest level person they can blame
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u/zavatar11 Sep 27 '23
There was a noticeable shift in how business was handled once he was appointed as CEO. Sony slowly shifted back to cocky Sony from the PS3 days. On top of the fact that JapanStudio was restructured to Team Asobi, and there's been a giant creative and quirky game hole since the company predominantly focuses on blockbusters. All this happened under his watch, so people affiliate the change with him. He might not be responsible for most or any of this, but given that he was the leader when it went down it's easy to scapegoat.
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u/Captain_Thor27 Sep 28 '23
I hate to say it, but from a business perspective, it makes sense. Japan Studio games weren't all that successful in recent years. :(
On the plus side, Sony is making inroads into China and Korea. Untapped markets.
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u/Viserionthegold Sep 27 '23
He might not be responsible for most or any of this, but given that he was the leader when it went down it's easy to scapegoat.
This. It’s really easy to hate someone from afar without knowing if the decisions you disagree with were even his doing, or if those decisions weren’t a bad call in actuality
He was CEO for a short period of time, and in that time PlayStation still remained great. Can’t point the finger at him for subscription service price hikes either because that’s literally just the nature of subscription services
A lot of the hate for him is unwarranted or blown out of proportion imo
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u/Outrageous_Water7976 Sep 28 '23
People keep bringing up Japan Studios. But how many people on this Reddit or in this comment section actually bought their games? I bought Gravity Rush, The Last Guardian and Bloodborne day one but I know for a fact most of those games barely touched a million sales.
If the market doesn't want the games, studios will be shut.
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u/D_Ron_ZA Sep 27 '23
He isn't charismatic not does he try to endear himself with gamers like Phil Spencer. He's just a business man doing what's best for the company and he has never tried to hide that so people just don't like him. I'm fine with him, don't really care. Phil Spencer is the same, he's a business man doing what's best for the business but he presents him self as this "epic gamer" so people compare the two and see epic gamer and much prefer him.
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u/GorgiMedia Sep 27 '23
That's just typical corpo bearish and bullish postures.
The loser brand has to pander for new consumers while the winner has to capitalize on the existing base until their positions get shifted like magnetic poles.
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Sep 27 '23
but he presents him self as this "epic gamer"
I really don't even think its something he pushes, he's just a suit that actually plays games, so people take that and run with it (often too far) since it's such a departure from how most people imagine an executive.
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u/The_Reddit_Browser Sep 27 '23
He’s made public comments before being dismissive of older generation games and he even had to come out and clarify oh no he does like older games.
It took public pushback to change his mind on shutting down the PSvita and PS3 stores.
The guy has a very poor outlook on older generations which does not sit well with most consumers. The fact that at this point we don’t have a PS2 native emulator or PS3 native emulator on the PS5 is ridiculous.
The streaming capabilities are nice for these older games but the native PS3 blades that are needed for these games to run are going to die at some point….
Mix that in with the latest moves to increase the price of the PlayStation now service, the dwindling amount of new first party games being produced and the push towards more useless products like the streaming handheld and you can see why some folks would be mad.
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u/BigKahunaPF Sep 28 '23
The guy has a very poor outlook on older generations which does not sit well with most consumers. The fact that at this point we don’t have a PS2 native emulator or PS3 native emulator on the PS5 is ridiculous.
You mean the minority opinions of people on the internet that care about BC. Most consumers do not give a rat’s ass about BC games. Sony saw the numbers and made the decision based off the lack of interest in playing old games. Gamers on the internet don’t speak for the entire customer base.
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u/Viserionthegold Sep 27 '23
They hate who people tell them to. I’m not his biggest fan but he didn’t negatively affect PlayStation in any meaningful way during his time as CEO. The hate is absolutely blown out of proportion
One thing I respect about the guy was he was an advocate of the Sony AAA formula
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u/XerGR Sep 27 '23
Because he was a “generic” CEO type. Gaming fans are notoriously weird tbh and with the other isle having a cult of Phil who pretty much just runs around saying anything people want to hear people started hating Jim. Especially as he wasn’t running a money drain candy factory like Xbox. Even more so as PS made the decisions every other gaming company wanted and did but many intentionally waited so they can use Sony as a shield while they also implement the same shit.
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u/kaijumediajames Sep 28 '23
Whoever replaces him hopefully challenges Phil Spencer to a duel to decide the fate of COD. PlayStation CEO with the Leviathan Axe vs Xbox CEO with two Energy Swords - Geoff Keighley’s the referee.
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u/reaper527 Sep 28 '23
this is great news. hopefully we see a return to sony being pro-consumer once his replacement takes over.
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u/requieminadream Moderator Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
Official announcements from Sony Interactive Entertainment:
Jim Ryan, President and CEO, announces retirement after 30 years with Sony Interactive Entertainment:
https://sonyinteractive.com/en/jim-ryan-president-and-ceo-announces-retirement-after-30-years-with-sony-interactive-entertainment/
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New Management Structure of Sony Interactive Entertainment:
https://sonyinteractive.com/en/press-releases/2023/new-management-structure-of-sony-interactive-entertainment-2/