When a company is working in a creative industry, and they don't have people who is able to appreciate its legacy or how the innovations and achievements of the past contributed to the medium, this is a recipe for disaster.
Too much movements in Sony since 2017 are giving me really bad vibes, of they becoming the Microsoft of 2013.
From all the talented people managing the relationships with indie developers in the Vita and early PS4 years not working anymore in the company.
To Fumito Ueda abandoning Sony, or don't having the decency of using him as a consultant for the remake.
The legacy of Playstation are not only the recent triple A blockbusters selling million of copies.
It was a company about letting thousands of small and mid-sized developers explore their creativity.
And nowadays, a lot of important indie releases are skipping PS4, in favor of Switch and Xbox One.
Because the talented people curating this content, is no longer in the company.
They seem to be focusing only in the big blockbusters, like Microsoft at the start of this generation.
And this change of CEO is only a consequence of this new vision.
But to win the start of a new generation, they will also need diversity, creative takes, niche productions, talented people like Fumito Ueda, a dialogue with its past legacy through backwards compatibility and a vast portfolio of indie developers and mid-size studios to build a rich and varied library to complement the blockbusters.
And I'm really asking if Jim Ryan is the type of guy with a vision to realize this.
Or he only is one of these executives, looking at the spreadsheets, to the benefice, to the numbers.
Ok, you scared me.
