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Sony Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden is leaving SIE
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Jesus, that's surprising and honestly pretty concerning at the abruptness of the announcement. Hopefully everything is all good at Sony and this isn't some dumb overhead corporate Sony move.
Something is definitely off about this announcement IMO. the choosing of the words there..I don't think it's a Reggie situation where he retired on his own terms.
Internal power struggles occurring just prior to a new generation of consoles is cause for some concern.
I wish we could get some specifics though. Is it Jim Ryan throwing his weight around and fucking people up or is it someone else. Maybe it's that dude with the name that sounds like it's straight out of a Harry Potter book.
I wish we could get some specifics though. Is it Jim Ryan throwing his weight around and fucking people up or is it someone else. Maybe it's that dude with the name that sounds like it's straight out of a Harry Potter book.
Yeah I said this too. Gtfo with your state of plays it's such a bad move they did
Same, Hoping that's not the case though. I kinda loved how Sony and Microsoft have both been relatively controversy free for a while.
PlayStation is the most profitable it's ever been thanks to the combined capable hands of him, Shu, House and Hirai.
Will be intriguing as heck to see the trajectory PlayStation is going to take on the next 10 years.
Will be intriguing as heck to see the trajectory PlayStation is going to take on the next 10 years.
Rumor is that the power struggle in between American and European branches of SIE.
Is this what Shu was celebrating on Twitter earlier?
Seriously though, all the best to Shawn. He's overseen the most commercially and critically successful few years of their first party's history. Good on him.
Seriously though, all the best to Shawn. He's overseen the most commercially and critically successful few years of their first party's history. Good on him.
Then there'll be six first-party exclusives at the PS5's launch, and they'll all have 'Knack' in the title.
Mark Cerny isn't an employee of Sony and doubt he ever would want to be TBH.
I'm bummed he isn't going to be apart of Sony, but I hope he finds an awesome job elsewhere! Enjoy!
Who is left for being the "face" of Playstation? Shu and...
Wtf is that camera movements, i laughed more than I should have. :D
Yeah its kind of amazing how many folks have hated the direction Sony has gone with messaging the last few years but are upset he left.
I'm not a fan of some of their business decisions lately, I'm just not sure which side he was on. Guess we'll find out.
Feels like it should have been a blog post where he thanks the fans and colleagues at PlayStation for the amazing years if everything was OK. A tweet not written by himself? Really? That's just a poor way of handling it regardless of what has happened. He has been a PlayStation front figure and deserves a proper send off.
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Power struggle murmurings are worrying, especially this close to next gen.
I don't think Mark actually works for playstation, he's independent.
Damn. He had BIIIG shoes to fill after succeeding Jack Tretton, and I think he did pretty good. Must have been pretty overwhelming for him, and I don't blame him for stepping down relatively shortly. PlayStation needs to build a personal around their new faces asap, the old guard is thinning fast :/
My theory for this abrupt departure was probably some internal politics between Jim Ryan and Shawn Layden, or something to do with Sony Corporate in general wanting Layden to do something else. I mean, Layden did wonders for this generation and just fucking look at the lineup for the next year for the PS4. It's absolutely insane. So he's definitely going to be missed, but I do think this came as a shock for pretty much everyone in PlayStation.
Something had to have happened that made him leave. Like...this seems to be more of a firing than anything but I'll have to reserve judgment until there's more info.
He wouldn't take the job if asked and he probably wouldn't be a good fit for it anyway. The guy's a developer, this is a job for a businessman.
That actually happened live on stream.
The camera work was something else during that conference
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This was only over a year and a half ago. Things change quickly.
Actually, that wasn't even a year ago lol.
Dang, leaving while on top, eh? Wonder if he got a better deal somewhere else, or is just satisfied with his work after all these years and wants to slow things down?
Wishing him the best, regardless.
Wishing him the best, regardless.
Seems to happen at the end of most gens, or before the launch of new ones at other companies (wherein a notable lead or exec leaves or appears at another company), like Google's Stadia having Dr Richard Marks come onboard after he was with Sony's R&D for so many years, and Phil Harrison stepping in as their presenter / frontman for elaborating on the new platform.
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