That's fair. Still, would've imagined he would have loved to be there for the birth of his new baby.
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Sony Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden is leaving SIE
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That's fair. Still, would've imagined he would have loved to be there for the birth of his new baby.
No, he was the knob lying about crossplay
Shawn Layden blames publishers and developers for lack of PlayStation crossplay (Up: Wargroove dev Chucklefish responds in thread - "We were told no")
From his interview with Gameinformer Mod Edit:
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Yeah because clearly all that matters is how entertaining they are on stage a couple times a year for you.
Get ready because Jim Ryan is coming in hot to tell us all about services and whatever else they can come up with to eat our wallets.
These are gonna be real tests of time now.
From the business side of things Jim Ryan runs a tight shop and controls the whole European region... However as a gamer... I don't like Arrogant Sony
With Sony following Nintendo with their State of Play direct videos and not doing conferences on stage these days, it's not like they need someone to be a face on the stage right now.
All the best to him though, he did a good job.
All the best to him though, he did a good job.
Why people are shocked?
In Sony, the "Chairman" position is always for who will be leaving or retire.
Early this year:
Shu - President of WWStudio
Shawn - Chairman of WWStudio
It is just a matter of time
By the way, I don't like his presentation. PSX and E3 in past few years is really bad in presentation led by him.
Paris GameS Week presentaiton much better
In Sony, the "Chairman" position is always for who will be leaving or retire.
Early this year:
Shu - President of WWStudio
Shawn - Chairman of WWStudio
It is just a matter of time
By the way, I don't like his presentation. PSX and E3 in past few years is really bad in presentation led by him.
Paris GameS Week presentaiton much better
Andrew House got more of a send off so this is strange with the abruptness of it all.
Nobody at Sony knows who's taking over Layden's role then? Or is Ryan doing that too?
Nobody at Sony knows who's taking over Layden's role then? Or is Ryan doing that too?
I always felt after the restructure and stuff that his new role felt superfluous, or tacked on, especially in title. It felt like a demotion from an outsider's perspective; I wonder if he always intended to run out his contract and just leave. Especially since Jim Ryan took more power on and people are speculating they don't see eye to eye.
You do know that Laydens job had many more responsibilities than standing on stage at e3 right?
I would bet money that they have not yet made that determination.
As the consumer, yep. That's the only time I see him. Otherwise he's just the guy in charge of making some of the lamest decisions I've seen Sony make in awhile. From the refund policy to the awful exclusive "content" deals, I won't miss him.
I don't think he's that kind of dude that jumps around just to increase his salary. He spent 32 years at Sony and he clearly had much love for Playstation brand. some people with inside knowledge are alleging that this was the result of some internal politics. Will be interesting to hear more about that.
It's fairly unusual for a company as big as Sony not to even have voted an interim head at least. He must have either been voted out by the board or resigned quickly.
The restructure put Ryan in charge of marketing and Layden as support to Shu. On top of that though both Ryan and Lauren were in charge of their own regional divisions. You can see the restructure paying off as Sony's marketing became noticeably more effective this gen and their WWS games got better as well.
All big corporations like this always have succession planning for every role in case of things like this. I'm sure they already have a couple people lined up ready to go.
Dude presided when Sony e3 2016 conference happened. Was a class act and his absolute best during that show as well. Thanks for the memories, man.
Yeah reading that announcement it seems more like Sony were surprised by the abruptness of this too. Could be personal reasons for Layden otherwise they wouldn't let him out of the contract so easily and quickly.
His role has always been kind of weird in that its the exact same thing as Shu's role, but Shu reported to him. They could just get rid of the role and let Shu report directly to Ryan.
Shawn was made Chairman of WWS in March last year with a focus on driving new content; not sure whether that would be seen as a sideways or downward step from his previous role as President of SIE America.
Exactly, first presentation was rough but he grew into it and learned to laugh at himself.
Says he retired. Great for Shawn and hope he enjoys retirement
You don't keep two executives with redundant roles. That's just poor bureaucracy.
Yeah that was peak Sony, great memories. Shame he won't be able to do it again.
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