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Jim Ryan to Be Appointed President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment
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I don't think we know but my guess is no-one. SIE have been consolidating and moving away from the regional approach for a while and just last year got rid of the SIEA head position (with Shawn Layden moving over to head up WWS), making the CEO (then Kodera) directly in charge of both SIEA and SIEJA. Jim Ryan remained as SIEE head while being Deputy President of SIE, presumably because Europe's such an important region for Sony and Ryan's done a great job there, but now that he's CEO, it seems like the final piece of the puzzle will be in place and there'll be no more regional heads, everyone will report to Ryan.
Oh, he only played a role in making PlayStation a dominating force in Europe. No big deal.
Lots of ads on tv and lots of presence on football, thats the way to convince european markets like Spain, Italy, etc... hard push for stores to put upfront their products since the ps2 days. People here also like the heavy narrative sony games usually have and still think the way to go for playing their favourite sports games is a sony console (see point about sony pushing marketing of thir console on football events). Even with multiplatform games they will do ads pushing their version and making the other seem unexistant.
Xbox, their direct xompetition, is a zero entity since 360 and Nintendo sells well when they do right as they have a market that complements the one of sony audience, while tberes another portion that will only buy their products when they get incredibly huge (wii, ds and seems that switch is going that route).
Dont give him that much credit because it a lot of marketing money spend and knlwing where to do it and not rocket science.
Jim is with Playstation since the earlier days. Playstation is in good hands. He did a great job as cheif of the European division. Sony is the only console manufactor that releases most of his 1st party games dubbed for Portuguese from Portugal in my contry since the PS3 days. (original voices also included ) Even if Portugal is a small contry with only 10 million habitants, Portuguese language is the 6th most speaked language around the world.
Hope he keeps doing a great job now as the boss of the whole thing.
Hope he keeps doing a great job now as the boss of the whole thing.
Lol, I hear that, but how? What's he done to do that? It's no indication of his plans for playstation. Kodera made sense given his work with the network and wanting to bring that to the forefront of playstation. It will be nice to get an idea of his overall longterm and short term views of where he wants to see playstation in the next few years.
Any company can do what Sony has done for the past 2½ decades in Europe, but for some reason the other two haven't done so.
Here's an informative article about the history of PlayStation, and the importance of localization, that was posted on the old forum, which points out it's just not about marketing.
https://www.**********/threads/mcv-how-playstation-conquered-europe.1119730/
Those faithful decisions still continue to pay off for them.
Before being CEO of SIE, Kodera was SVP, Corporate Strategy at Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI) and then, President of SNEI in 2013
Kodera is responsible of the expansion and the launch of several services like PS Store, PS Now, PS+, PS Vue/Music, etc...
Really? I find he has no personality, Jack was great and had charisma.
Huh?
1. He won't be in the position until April
2. Jim was the one who defended mature games when everybody was crying about TLOU Part II being too violent.
They've pretty much said why (though he chose to step down), he's heading up PSN, PSNow and Sony's digital transformation strategy, which is of all their media, Sony probably cooking up something that combines all their services together.
I'm not doubting, I'm just curious: what did he do to make Playstation dominate in Europe?
Because from my understanding, it's not something that should be that hard, since PS4 is dominating everywhere across the globe
He's been there since pretty much the start of PlayStation. He was head of marketing too, so he probably did something in that time to earn that position.
Jack was great in that he loved the product he was selling but Layden seems like he loves it because he genuinely loves games. So maybe Jack had more charisma but it never came off to me that he was charismatic about the games.
Don't know, man.
Sometimes you're in a position where you can surf the success wave, finally leading you to a position where you can start making some serious mistakes
Since people are using Mattrick as an example for Microsoft's failure at this gen's beginning , take this:
"In the six years since Mattrick has overseen the division, the Xbox 360 installed base has grown from 10 million to more than 76 million worldwide, while the Xbox LIVE membership has increased from 6 million to over 48 million. "
Incredible Senior Vice President, right? And we all know how that turned out in the end
So I understand people being cautious
Despite what people want you to believe, the XB1 fuck up isn't all down to 1 person. That would have been through pretty much every high up at Xbox and some from MS before reveal. I also doubt Jim has managed to ride a wave of success for over 20 years, without contributing to it.
The guy must be the greatest surfer to ever lived to have ridden a wave from nothing to something huge for 2 decades.
My point is that it's not like Europe was struggling to sell Playstations, ever since the beginning.
The performance in Europe followed the rest of the world sales.
Maybe I'm wrong of course, but if so, can someone please provide the numbers?