"I had no idea. Random check and Boom… I have full blown prostate cancer. Treatment ongoing but looking good so far. Men over 50… get a PSA test… just in case. 🙂❤️"
Jim Ryan has departed Sony Interactive Entertainment, after roughly 30 years at the company.
Less live service nonsense, I hope. Maybe more than one or two first-party releases a year would be nice as well. It'd be nice if they fixed the PS+ price hike too, but that's less likely because the only reason they would have increased the price in the first place is if it wasn't making them enough money to satisfy shareholders.
We won't see the real effects of Jim leaving for another 2-3 years and it all depends on who is replacing him.
With how much money they make, I really doubt we'll see the end of Live Service experiments at Sony. Even if it's last few have been... under-whelming.
@crazyCoconuts @Crows90
Sony's definition of live service is pretty broad. Stuff like Gran Turismo 7 and MLB The Show count for them. Helldivers 2 will count. I'm not sure if they're including Marathon or Destiny 2 as Bungie remains seperate from Playstation Studios
Oh please, the last ps+ price hike was 6 years ago in 2017 while Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime etc. raise their price nearly every year.
Unlike those services, the PS+ price hike wasn't by dollar amount, it was by percentage. Across the board the prices for each PS+ tier increased about 30%. The lowest tier went up by way less than the highest tier. It's a clear money-grab, especially when they haven't even offered more Classics to warrant the huge increase on the Premium tier.
Also, unrelated, but it's still bad when those other services increase the price of their subscriptions as well, so I don't understand the use of this argument.
There's no way they would buy Bungie for the life service stuff to drop those plans after this guy leaves.
"We won't see the real effects of Jim leaving for another 2-3 years and it all depends on who is replacing him."
I believe we´ll have news regarding the future of Playstation rather sooner than later.
As Ryan steps down next month, demands for what´s next for Playstation will not only be made by gamers, but shareholders, investors and board directors.
PS games on PC will still to be a thing? Will those games come to PC sooner or even later?
Day One Playstation games on PS Plus will be a thing? Will those games be released sooner on the service? There´ll be AAA third party day one releases on the service?
GaaS will continue to be a focus?
Will Playstation continue and invest in third party exclusives?
Will Playstation establish new partnerships with Microsoft and or Nintendo?
Will Playstation continue and invest in acquisition of studios? Will they now invest in publishers as well?
There will be more PSVR2 games from first party studios?
There´s lots of questions that needs to be addressed by the new leadership.
Of course, Totoki also might answer all of it with a single note: "All of Playstation future plans and direction, remains the same" and call it a day.
Day One Playstation games on PS Plus will be a thing? Will those games be released sooner on the service? There´ll be AAA third party day one releases on the service?
I don't see this happening. The only reason ms did it is cause they were desperate imo. I'd rather Sony not do day one. I'm also of the mindset I prefer to physically own my games not rent or digitally have them. I've got no issue paying for a game I will truly enjoy.
@shinoff2183
"I don't see this happening."
Just because you don´t see it happening doesn´t mean it won´t happen.
I don´t think you remember but there´s a lot of "I don't see this happening" type of comment in the comment history of many people here regarding both Playstation games on PC and some Playstation "Gamepass" type of service.
"The only reason ms did it is cause they were desperate imo."
By the time MS announced day one first party games on Gamepass the general opinion were that it would never happen! All that bs talk about "it´s not sustainable" blah blah bah.
Now we have not only all of the first party games day one on Gamepass but AAA third party games day one as well.
Imo, PS Plus will never outperform Gamepass if Sony is not willing to heavily invest on it specially now after that 40% price hike, and yet, they had the nerve to remove Spider-Man from its content list.
According to FTC documents MS had made more profit out revenue in 2022 than Sony, while numbers from both Bethesda and Activision weren´t even accounted.
You might think Sony have nothing to worry about, but that sudden retirement announcement does sound an alarm, and things about to change, again. Like it or not.
“Less live service nonsense, I hope.”
Don’t bet on it. All the top grossing games are live service games. It’s apparently where the masses want to spend their money.
All the best in his treatment and recovery. My father too just discovered he has prostate cancer this last month, but I learned a few things. Of course I was quite upset to hear at first, but learned that prostate cancer is one of the most survivable of all cancers. The treatments are often times highly effective, even if it means completely removing the prostate.
It's not comfortable at all, and it will leave lasting effects such as incontinence, but it's at least something that can be done to save the person's life.
All the best to Doug in his fight. May the heart of Geralt be with you through this battle, as well as the hearts of your millions of fans.
Speedy recovery my friend, please guys, swallow your pride and get checked, your loved ones will thank you.
Colongaurd
That sucks