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Sony Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden is leaving SIE
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Well damn....let's hope the new guy can handle that ps5 pressure. SL played it cool outside of that first year when he over dressed for the occasion
He's been at the company for over 30 years, so it could have been a personal decision. Dude has millions of dollars in pension alone
Official press release in Japanese (I think).
"Retired" from the role in this scenario is usually a diplomatic way of saying he left on mutual understanding.
He has "future endeavours" of course, and they don't mean golf.
Could also be a result of seeing the writing on the wall in a corporate struggle he was losing.
SIE: Worldwide Studio Chairman Sean Raden resigns.
Per twitter translate.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has conducted the following personnel appointments for executive officers.
Record
Executive personnel (end of September 2019)
Retirement
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
Worldwide Studio Chairman Sean Rheden
LMAO people are just spreading misinformation. Ryan said nothing about backwards compatibility much less anything suggesting he thinks it's pointless.
He was at a convention with Gran Turismo games and made a comment on why would people play the old ones when the new ones do everything better.
No. Jim Ryan is the big boss of SIE. Shu can do the job now. But it needs to be somebody who's in SIE's San Meteo HQ all the time imo. So maybe Michael Denny (SIEE) or simply Scott Rhode (SIEA). Both are great.
Obviously. A lot know Shawn for his stage appearances though and being a face of the company and they haven't announced his replacement, although they don't really need to.
Sony have been using their direct videos to communicate lately, keeping everything else behind the scenes, so his replacement might stay behind the scenes.
Whether he is retiring or has resigned, Sony teams are still working on next generation projects which he will have no hand in. His replacement is going to need quite the initiation before the PS5, which is over a year from now. I'm not sure how the timing of his retirement is a cause for concern or alarm regarding the next generation. It's actually quite apt.
Tretton, House, Layden.
All three deeply embedded in PlayStation history and all leave a massive legacy, especially the rise of WWS and PlayStation 4.
I'm not confident Jim is the right fella and I'm not confident Sony have anyone to directly replace Layden right now.
All three deeply embedded in PlayStation history and all leave a massive legacy, especially the rise of WWS and PlayStation 4.
I'm not confident Jim is the right fella and I'm not confident Sony have anyone to directly replace Layden right now.
Huh. If I'm not mistaken, today is the last day of the 2nd Quarter. Perhaps that's why this happened/was announced today. This also means, we could find out in a few weeks, that PS4 has surpassed Wii and PS1 when the financial report is released.
Maybe he just didn't feel like making a spectacle of him leaving so he didn't announce it ahead of time? If he got fired I doubt the top brass would let the social media team announce it.
Now that would be something. I would love to see the madness on ERA.
so maybe its been planned for a while, since this was the last day in the fiscal quarter
The tweet made it sound like it was something sudden
All this changes and people leaving has to be related to the PS5. I fear that many executives are not satisfied, or disagree with how they are making the PS5 and prefer to leave the company. I mean, if everything was going amazing, why would they leave in the first place? Something is not right...
Wow... well whatever the reason, best of luck to him! Crazy to think that just last December, he , Reggie and Spencer were all on stage together at the Game Awards. Now less than a year later, two of them have retired.
He's been with the company for almost as long as I've been alive. He probably just decided a generation transition was a good time to retire.
Jim ha done tons for PS brand and is one of the reasons why they so strong in Europe .
He not great at PR but business he know what to do.
Wow how many prominent people have Sony lost from the PS4 launch.
I know Yoshida and Cerny are still there which is important.
Boyes
House
Tretton
Layden
I know Yoshida and Cerny are still there which is important.
Boyes
House
Tretton
Layden
PS4 was an incredibly successful console. He probably wants to leave on a guaranteed high note. He's 58 and might not want to see the stress of another console launch.
In a thread of "uh oh's" and "this can't be good's," there's this fucking GEM.
I wonder if Shawn didn't want to buy studios
Jim is also deeply embedded in their history. Heck I bet there are a ton like Trenton, House, and Layden that just don't want the recognition.
Or they've been at the company a long time, are confident the future is bright, and feel it's the right time to step aside while the brand's on a high?
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