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Jim Ryan to Be Appointed President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment
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People in here acting like Mattrick didn't preside over an extremely successful console cycle taking an unknown quantity in the industry to a undeniable competitor before his backwards ideas blew up in his face. I'm sure the man will sleep tonight if enthusiasts don't eat up his every word and dare to criticize him when he has been wrong.
He's like your dad's Phil Spencer.
I'm sure he's actually really great at his job. You don't get promoted to this kind of position without having some kind of idea what you're doing. I'm positive Sony will continue to sell consoles and software.
I'm sure he's actually really great at his job. You don't get promoted to this kind of position without having some kind of idea what you're doing. I'm positive Sony will continue to sell consoles and software.
BC panic will last a few weeks, and then people will regain their common sense.
Don Mattrick was also responsible for the Xbox 360's huge surge in sales in the second half of the generation before fucking up the Xbox One launch.
Just saying.
Lol at this shit post. Don Mattrick ran a studio for christ sake.
Ha, until Sony definitively say BC is in PS5 people will still conduct plenty of hand wringing.
PS4 ran laps around the XB1 this gen without it.
The dude wasn't going to sing the praises of something the competition had and they didn't. If/when the ps5 does bc it'll suddenly be something they cared about the whole time and what not.
Have you ever heard of Peter's Principle? Kodera got a chance and likely turned out to be better at being a really great number 2 type of guy who is better at executing than leading. No offense to him though Sony had it's best year under him in decades.
The thing is that people on this board haven't been able to figure out the Jim always comes out to defend PlayStation on it's weak points then you combine the fact that most people don't actually know Jim's real job at the company.
Well, we care more for BC and cross play/ps classics than how much of a success sony has in Europe you know?
Eh not a huge fan of Jim's but hopefully his foot-in-mouth moments were him just trying to explain unpopular policy democratically. I'll give him a shot, I definitely can see the great success that Sony EU is experiencing so hopefully he can bring that forward a bit
Imagine thinking that now Ryan will change the HW because he apparently doesn't care about BC. Or maybe he said it because they never planned to implement it this generation while MS was heavily betting on it.
Because people think this is a bad decision but when looking at what he has done it's actually the opposite, him being appointed as the president also isn't gonna affect BC in PS5 as that would have been a thing long before this, they aren't gonna just change plans this late and there is really nothing pointing at the dude being against BC.
You have just as much idea as the next guy writing "hmmm". Digital is growing, is bigger than ever for Sony, it only benefits them to have BC so that they can sell more content to new and existing consumers, and enrich services they offer by having games that you can download as well as stream. Ryan has made a couple of dumb excuses in interviews (certainly hasn't published press releases that draw out plans to not support old games on newer hardware). That's all you've got on him. Good luck with what you're peddling.
I, like most of you, thought this was a weird and disconcerting decision by Sony until I looked at his track record. He was the President of SIEE, which overlooked Europe, Oceania, Middle East, and African regions, since 2011. PlayStation holds market dominance in all of those territories. PlayStation is incredibly aggressive in Europe as well, so this seems pretty exciting. I hope he doesn't do anything to backwards compatibility and cross-play, but I personally doubt it. I have high hopes. This man knows how to succeed.
If that remark is indictive of his mentality toward previous generations, then it's a fuck ton more relevant than calling it "an off-the-cuff comment he made about Gran Turismo".
This part is the key bit worrying Sony I guess?
They need Kodera in the area of his expertise to focus 100% on it in the face of ever stiffer competition.
Theres no need to get hostile here.
Many simply believe Sony won't do BC for many reasons.
You have yours, he has his.
Honestly I don't like this dude from the few times he has appeared in Sony's conferences and from the interviews he has given. Why can't we have Shawn Layden as president or get Jack Tretton back? I even like Kaz Hirai and Andrew House, but they decided to leave :(
Hummm interesting that they just switch positions then and he still the network boss. Maybe he just wasn't working as the main front guy then.
Well yea but that has much more to do with xbox shooting themselves in the foot for the first 12 months(?) or so, and then failing on their first party content after losing the early lead. Xbox one didn't launch with it either.
BC, IMO is going to be important going forward more-so for Sony because of their fairly big first party catalog this gen