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In a press release issued earlier this week, Sony announced that Jim Ryan, the current head of PlayStation and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has decided to retire in March 2024 after nearly three decades with the PlayStation business.

“After 30 years, I have made the decision to retire from SIE in March 2024," Jim Ryan said in the press release. "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.”

To assist in the transition following Jim Ryan's departure and in finding a successor to the SIE CEO role, Hiroki Totoki, Sony Group Corporation President, COO and CFO, will assume the role of Interim CEO as from April 1, 2024.

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[Bladexdsl]

your only 2 days too late. good riddance to this guy it's because of him the ps5 is being beaten by a fucking tablet!

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

your only 2 days too late. good riddance to this guy it's because of him the ps5 is being beaten by a fucking tablet!

A last gen tablet with outdated hardware even when it released seven years ago nonetheless. Sony really needs to up their game this generation, so hopefully the new guy helps out with that for PS fans

 

[Jayinem]

Noooo not Jim Ryan.

Oh wait, idc.

 

[cvskid]

Hopefully this means playstation can go back to being japanese like during the ps1 and ps2 days. It's too americanized now.

 

[Axido]

Remember that feeling when Reggie left Nintendo? This is the exact opposite of that.

 

[LightBeam]

Yeah it's funny how people are actually glad he's gone, even Sony fans from what I've seen. But Reggie ? And Spencer would probably receive a pretty good treatment too.

 

[torrent_get]

He knows the Activision Blizzard UK CMA re-submission will get the okay.

Someone else can deal with the aftermath.

 

[chrisrlink]

Yeah it's funny how people are actually glad he's gone, even Sony fans from what I've seen. But Reggie ? And Spencer would probably receive a pretty good treatment too.

my guess spencer is not leaving MS until he croaks of old age

 

[Xzi]

Hopefully this doesn't change their PC strategy, unless the change is to make PC even more of a focus.

 

[Delerious]

Eh... haven't cared enough about Playstion since the PS3 days, if I'm being honest. I know there are great titles on the PS4, but many of them have come to PC, anyway. So it's hard for me to genuinely care about Playstation and XBox these days. Hell, the only reason I care about Switch anymore is because of Nintendo's first party offerings, and the fact that it's a portable system.

 

[Maq47]

Remember that feeling when Reggie left Nintendo? This is the exact opposite of that.

Not to mention the death of Iwata. Nintendo REALLY went downhill after his death.

 

[HarveyHouston]

I'm not much into the PlayStation scene (yet!), but AFAIK this guy is not great. Still, PlayStation is #1 in the console market, so... will it remain as such? Time will tell.

 

[linkofhyrule1]

Not to mention the death of Iwata. Nintendo REALLY went downhill after his death.

Mmmm, I don't think that's really true. Like, at all. Loved Iwata, but since his death in 2015, Nintendo has been doing rather well...

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

Mmmm, I don't think that's really true. Like, at all. Loved Iwata, but since his death in 2015, Nintendo has been doing rather well...

Yes, financially Nintendo’s been doing great without Iwata thanks to the Switch. However after Iwata Nintendo’s been more prone to doing less customer friendly things (Paid Switch Online despite it being crap and originally being free, releasing unfinished games, gatcha mobile games, timed releases that become unavailable whenever Nintendo feels like it, extremely boring system UI, etc). However this is probably to do with Nintendo just following suit with the gaming industry as a whole unfortunately, not just Iwata not being in charge.

 

[Axido]

Mmmm, I don't think that's really true. Like, at all. Loved Iwata, but since his death in 2015, Nintendo has been doing rather well...

That's not the metric you usually think of from a customer's perspective. That's a metric for investors and it usually somehow correlates with questionable business practices.

 

[KingVamp]

I can't believe that they censor more than Nintendo now.

 

[codezer0]

Not to mention the death of Iwata. Nintendo REALLY went downhill after his death.

Iwata was behind a lot of bone headed decisions for Nintendo, including but not limited to:

• Blatantly ignoring fan outcry for a legitimate release of Mother 3 outside of Japan, including even Tomato offering his fan translation free of charge if it meant it would just effing come out
• Holding on to star fox 2 for 22 effing years
• Allowing japanese players to have all sorts of online functionality as far back as the Famicom, but refusing to do so anywhere else until the Wii
• Sheltering the hardware designers of the WiiU to the point they didnt even know that xbox live and psn were a thing when interviewed, which pretty much set the bar for the quality of networking the console would come to have in its time in the market
• "The ds and game boy line will continue on. We wont abandon the game boy."
• "The home and portable market will continue on. We wont abandon either pillar just because of the Switch."

I'm tired of people pretending he was faultless when he clearly was not. An excellent programmer, sure. A business man? A leader? Not even.

 

[raxadian]

your only 2 days too late. good riddance to this guy it's because of him the ps5 is being beaten by a fucking tablet!

To be fair there was the pandemic and the Switch released way before the PS5 and is way cheaper.

Is like complaining the Wii sold more that the PS3.

Also the thing with the PS4 being so popular is that it still gets game releases and a huge software library so there isn't that much incentive to upgrade.

That being said Sony really has dropped the ball in recent years.

Edit: If PS5 exclusives get PC releases why get a PS5 if you have a PC good enough to play the games in PC?

 

[codezer0]

If PS5 exclusives get PC releases why get a PS5 if you have a PC good enough to play the games in PC?

Not to mention that Sony can't just steal your money on steam like they can do with a psn account.