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Sony Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden is leaving SIE
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Is corporate restructuring right before next-generation common though?
Oh man, shit like this always makes me nervous. When senior positions leave, I'm always afraid someone is going to take over who wants to shake things up. Hope we don't get some jackass who doesn't value the kind of games that Sony Worldwide Studios has been doing.
Geoff, what did you do?!?!?
(Place your bets on whether Phil keeps his job at Xbox until after the next Game Awards.)
(Place your bets on whether Phil keeps his job at Xbox until after the next Game Awards.)
As was pointed out, Jim Ryan outranks him, and he says that content is everything.
I remember being skeptical about him when he was introduced, but he turned out to be a great Playstation directive. I wonder who will be the new faces in Playstation offices now that Andre House is also gone. Maybe the Playstation 4 system architect (don't remember his name lol)
Left Phil on some Sam Fisher shit:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62640911/vlcsnap_2018_12_06_21h01m43s958.0.png)
This was only over a year and a half ago. Things change quickly.
"Then it's only me...."
BC is a given because of architecture. And they need it for Dreams and VR.
Probably just wants to have enough time to play TLOU2.
Hope he left on good terms though, I thought he was cool. I'll miss his legacy of teasing titles through t-shirts
Hope he left on good terms though, I thought he was cool. I'll miss his legacy of teasing titles through t-shirts
Finally time for our boy Jim Ryan to take the reins
He'll now be able to spout out his terrible takes on the big stages !
lmao
He'll now be able to spout out his terrible takes on the big stages !
lmao
No no no, let him out of corporate and be the amazing architect he is.
With regards to the "power struggle" thing, I guess there was no where else for Layden to go. Jim Ryan got the top job, maybe Layden wanted it, but with Ryan unlikely to leave anytime soon, I guess he felt it was time to move on.
The exact same thing happened with Tretton by the way, I remember him deciding to move on when Andy House got the top job.
The exact same thing happened with Tretton by the way, I remember him deciding to move on when Andy House got the top job.
Good to hear. I just hope that the word content is meaningful in the way we think it is. Hopefully not the GAAS trend everyone else has been chasing.
Ehhh....didn't that one jolly fellow from Sony leave either right before or right after the ps4 was announced? That didn't spell doom and gloom.
Are you trying to say this has causal links to other things? If so, what things? You can't just be like "oooh, must not be a coincidence" when you haven't even described the things that are supposed to be connected lol.
Shawn is 58, has been with the company for 30 years, and saw PlayStation through some of its most successful time ever. Dude deserves a break. I can imagine being chairman of one of the largest gaming brands on the planet is just exhausting.
Also, I just wanna say that he looks damn good for 58. I wish I could age that well
Also, I just wanna say that he looks damn good for 58. I wish I could age that well
Yeah basically what else could he realistically do at Sony? He was already head of SIEA and chairman of WWS. Vice president for the whole company was taken by Kodera, president taken by Ryan. There really was no room for career growth until either Kodera or Ryan leave (and let's just say you don't ever aim to be the vice-president). I'm pretty sure when the Sony restructure happened last year that put Ryan on top, both Ryan and Layden were pitching their ideas to the company. Ryan's won and so Layden is leaving either to retire on a high or progress career-wise.
Like sometimes people here forget that all these execs are people too, with dreams, hopes and families.
Yeah, even if he has other low key work the dude has been running many ships at Sony for so long, that if say - he can't take the top spot any time soon - retiring now while at the top of the mountain he is able to climb, is a great thing to do.
Not only that, but Sony also has loads of money right now they can shift his way to pay for his retirement. I imagine things are gonna get a little tight once the next-gen launches, with its cloudy future and all that madness that comes with it (and the stresses and all that the people running things will face).
Was a super cool dude when I got to meet him, and from his presentations on stage - even if some folks can't handle someone being a little awkward from time to time.
So like with 3 o's liked dooomed? Damn.
58?? Damn he aged well
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lol at some of y'all making hay outa this
Did he like because of the well wishing, or like because of internal struggle...
I like how the only thing most will associate with Jim Ryan is the BC comments and not the years of success at SIEE.
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