As if Jim Ryan’s legacy couldn’t get any worse

[MeachTheMonster]

Moving from first-party to indies? Well, I had no choice," said Yoshida when asked if he faced any personal challenges with the shift to indie developers. "When Jim asked me to do the indie job, the choice was to do that or leave the company.


"But I felt very strongly about the state of PlayStation and indies. I really wanted to do this. I believed I could do something unique for that purpose. That was the bigger change for me personally, moving from first-party to indies, than leaving the company this year. I’m very lucky that the indie community, the publishers and developers I work closely with–they believed that they could use my help.

I became an adviser for some of these companies. I’m continuing to work with some of the indie publishers and developers I respect. The transition out of Sony to becoming an independent adviser is less of a change than moving out of first-party."

Yoshida left Sony Interactive Entertainment on January 15 of this year after working at the company for 31 years.

He did reveal that while he has left Sony Interactive Entertainment, he has yet to retire.

"Well, I haven’t retired," said Yoshida. "I left the company. Jim Ryan was the last leader of our generation. Ken Kutaragi, Kaz Hirai, Andrew House, Shawn Layden, myself, we were all the same group from the PS1 days.

"We handed down to the next generation of management, like Hideaki Nishino and Hermen Hulst. For the last five years my responsibility was to promote indie games inside and outside of PlayStation. I wanted to communicate, especially to new people joining PlayStation, how important it is to support indie games. They create the future. Externally I was communicating to indie developers and publishers that we wanted to make things better for them. Bit by bit, we’ve been able to improve our systems, our store functions, our communication."

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[Jaguar93]

 

[Rekkapryde]

still destroyed the xbox brand

i'll allow it

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Jim Lyin fakkit it’s why I have disliked Sony this gen

 

[The Mad Titan]

So do people not like Jim? Did he not do anything for the PS5?

 

[Tetris v2.0]

So do people not like Jim? Did he not do anything for the PS5?

In terms of hardware, PS5 has been great. I give most of the credit to Mark Cerny and team though

Jim made decisions that undermined the success of the single player games last generation, focused on things players do not want and seemed to put fiduciary duties far ahead of listening to the audience. Many of these decisions failed miserably.

The brand is strong enough to persevere and even thrive through that leadership, but if you followed closely, it seemed like a mess over there in recent years

He might have been great on paper, but he didn't instill trust in me as a long-term PS fan that he "gets it"

 

[daze23]

at least they had the sense to force retire dude.

Stop trollin. Man is 65 years old and tired of the travelling and shyt.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Two things can be true at the same time - Ma$e.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Sony stans help themselves sleep better at night by scapegoating old Jim. Of course it’s all his fault and nobody else at sony was responsible for their recent decisions

 

[Pressure]

at least they had the sense to force retire dude.

No sir. He was just tired of the commute and chose to retire

 

[Rekkapryde]

No sir. He was just tired of the commute and chose to retire

Two things can be true at the same time - Ma$e.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Didn’t sony just have a breakthrough quarter/year while xbox is hurrying to put their games on ps5?

Jim Ryan did what he needed to do to keep playstation/SIE dominate through a pandemic, that doesn’t mean anyone is going to start a fan club for him.

Thats an xbox stan trait

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Didn’t sony just have a breakthrough quarter/year while xbox is hurrying to put their games on ps5?

They trying to keep it going with publisher wars

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

ain’t no one trying to keep it going though, thats just the truth. The majority of microsofts gaming profits will come from playstation this year

 

[MeachTheMonster]

ain’t no one trying to keep it going though, thats just the truth. The majority of microsofts gaming profits will come from playstation this year