Jim Ryan Needs to be voted out of his position

Yes, The current president of SIE, Jim Ryan needs to go.

Look at all the negative things that have happened under his watch in the two short years he's been at the head:

- PS5 exclusives raise to $70

- Japan Studio stripped to it's bare bones

- Legacy psn stores closing

- Killzone franchise retired

- Days Gone 2 denied

- Web store gets downgraded

- game patches starting to disappear due to legacy stores closing soon

- Currently killing any hope for full backward compatibility despite according to two patents they are working on solutions.

- Turned down Kojima's next game (allegedly)

- Closing the video/movie rental store DESPITE LITERALLY just starting a new video service on their new bravia televisions.

Under this man's leadership, I can't think of a single good thing that he pushed. I've never seen a company leader pull off such levels of self-sabotage before. It's as if this man has no idea what made the Playstation brand the household name it is.

Hell there isn't even a reason to NOT do BC or close the legacy stores. Their own financials and actions prove that. PSN makes more money than Microsoft's gaming division and the ENTIRE Nintendo company. And that's with the Legacy stores still being open ( https://www.ign.com/article... So it's not like the excuse of "it's a financial drain" is there.

And as for backward compatibility. I keep hearing "can't due it because of x86". That there is another falsehood. RSPS3 runs on x86. And to add insult to injury, those backward compatibility patents starting showing up AFTER Sony hired some of the RSPS3 programmers.

And this final part is me speaking for myself personally. But as of now, I see no reason to ever buy a ps5 or anything Sony puts out beyond this point. They've shown me they have no follow through.

[Sonic-and-Crash]

Most of these are just false accusations and come from a general info war against PStation

1) Japan Studio may have been stripped by its old personel (who imo had problems with productivity and direction) but most probably Sony prepares ASOBI team ,successor of Japan Studio which can take on Nintnedo s Mario team man to man

2 Days Gone 2 would have been a completely different game than the first game..more similar to DayZ and other massive online Zombie games .Correctly Sony turned down the pitch..

3 Same with Kojima , Kojima offered its Stadia episodic horror game to Sony and most propbably they turned it down
Episodic Horror game would be waste of maney and unsafe for Playstation SP used audience (i wouldnt like it for example and i m fan of Kojima)

4 to hyperreact on PS Store shut down is hypocritical ...im sure that 99% of PS players had forgot it existed or even dont own PS vita PS3 anymore (me as fan of old PS games had anything downloaded from release , i wouldnt wait 10 years after to play classic games) and most probably these games will return on PS5

5 Killzone was never that good and most of those who react have nt even finished 1 game in the series

6 70$ price will be applied by Xbox and Nintnedo too

[XiNatsuDragnel]

I think Jim Ryan does need stronger Japanese support and acquire more Japanese exclusives combined with letting more ,1st party games through.

[roboteye]

They already got 2 exclusives from SE (FF16 and Forspoken). 3 if you count FF7R Intergrade.

[bouzebbal]

I've never been a fan of this guy either.. I miss Tretton Kan and Andrew House..
But PS5 is on fire.

[neomahi]

Hes the CEO. If theyre going to appoint him them theyd have to let him do his job, that was a major issue with SEGA in its time. There was too much conflict, they wanted to hire Tom Kalinski, why? When he told them to bundle Sonic 2 with every Genesis console, they fought him all day long. When it finally happened, SEGA began to really disrupt things for Nintendo. Dont hire someone to the job if youre not gonna listen to them because that inner turmoil leads to major issues, SEGA is now no longer what it was so Sony ought to know better, if they dont like it, run it themselves.

However, Jim Ryans been making really poor decisions. We've seen the announcement of the PSVR 2 before the Scalper situation has been solved. Jim Ryans trying to sell PSVR to people that dont even have a PS5 left which sends the message he doesnt care of consumers.

Andrew House has stated in an interview that he stayed up late nights stressing about the HDD included in the PS4, he wanted the right price for consumers. That communicated he cared about consumers. Jim Ryan? Nothing. Now hes letting things happen that says they dont care about consumer loyalty, we'll just give it to the competition, PS gamers have every right to feel how they do and watch Xbox fans get treated better than the ones that support Sony. It makes no sense and Sony doesnt have the nerve themselves to be transparent, and thats a Phil Spencer move. Act now and ask forgiveness later, problem is, PlayStation fans arent as forgiving as Xbox fans.

[CaptainHenry916]

I can't believe Sony a Japanese company needs more Japanese support 🤔

[senorfartcushion]

Billion dollar companies need to be judged properly, but they do not know who you are, nor do they need your help.

You’re a number to them, they hate you and all they need is your $60

Edit: legitimately forgot it was $70 for their exclusives.

[jukins]

Nba2k1 is $70, call of duty is $70... this will be industry wide soon. Only reason you haven't seen xbox "exclusives" for $70 is well there arent any....

[turd_ferguson74]

Hear Hear!!

[Jin_Sakai]

Sony’s getting a lot of heat for a reason and Jim Ryan is a big part of that. I’d rather have Shawn Layden back or let Scott Rhode take his position. He an avid gamer himself and knows his stuff.

[Rude-ro]

“Sony’s getting a lot of heat”..
From whom?
Also, want to know a little strange fact?
Every year about this time, there is always some sort “drama” created around Sony in gaming media.
It happens twice a year... April - May and September - October.
I wonder why 🤔
Such odd pattern for n4g

[jukins]

Yea lets get someone who fan fluff the fanboy egos....fun fact Layden was there and behind many of the current playstation directives. But of course media twlls you different its all jim ryan...

[Sayai jin]

Yes, it's just he media. Smh...

[Jin_Sakai]

“Yea lets get someone who fan fluff the fanboy egos....fun fact Layden was there and behind many of the current playstation directives. But of course media twlls you different its all jim ryan...“

I didn’t know Shawn Layden closed PS3, Vita, and PSP stores, shuttered Sony Japan Studio, turned down Days Gone 2 and greenlight a pointless remake of The Last of Us PS5 remaster.

All this happened under Jim Ryan in less than 5 months. He needs to step down! Bring Shawn Layden back and promote Scott Rohde to head of PlayStation Studios.

[neomahi]

I smell Herman Hulst in a lot if this as well. Herman Hulst comes on board and Horizon Zero Dawn is announced for PC, thats when things started to seem strange. Then Death Stranding. Now Days Gone. We're now starting to see strange behavior like MLB The Show 21, it just keeps getting worse and worse. Jim Ryan needs to go. Nobody ruffled Phil Spencers feathers and made his days tough like Jack (Jacky T) Tretton and Kaz Hirai.

[Thatgrammar]

@Jin_Sakai

Why does Jim Ryan “need to step down”? Under his leadership, Playstation has made the most money it ever has in a year (2020). If Playstation keeps making a lot of money I don’t really see the guy going anywhere. Why would he step down because you (and others) wrote your feelings down on the internet? I don’t have any negative or positive opinions about the guy, I am just trying to understand why he would step down. He will most likely head Playstation until his decisions start to negatively impact the business.

[Skuletor]

Killzone 2 was the best in the series and a PS5 sequel that went back to what made 2 so good would have been awesome.

[Dirtnapstor]

I've never been fond of the PS3 storefront. It's so sluggish and not user friendly. I'm not sure what everyone's so up in arms about. I'd be willing to bet most had moved on and gracing the PS3 store was so infrequent; Sony questioned why should it be sustained? Besides, again, I'd bet that Sony has a grand plan in the works, incorporating most everything from the past platforms.

And you are incorrect Sonic-and-Crash.... Killzone was a fantastic franchise :).

[blackblades]

They mad cause they wont be able to buy ps3 games anymore. For some odd reason its been a whole generation since ps3 era and now people want to now buy digital ps3 games. Guess used physical copies doesnt exist in this world anymore. People like to attack other people to make themselves feel better so they going all in on Jim for all of it without knowing his reasons.. End of the day as a long time Sony user nothing actually effects me.

[-Foxtrot]

Even if some of false accursations the fact is compared to Jack Trenton or Shawn Laydon, Jim is doing an awful job and is a corporate suit not a gamer at heart. Those sales might be rolling in but over time these little shitty decisions will build up until it's too late, people will get p***** off and turn the other cheek.

Sony are just creating one negative thing after another for themselves ever since he took over

Now if you have something counter point those negative decisions like "We've done this bad thing BUT it's because we can give you good thing X, Y and Z" then fair enough but there's no trade off here.

Jim needs to go and Sony need to get back on track before Microsoft whizzes passes them again.

[blackblades]

You people are making everything negative, Jim been with Sony since 1994 I believe hes not just some new guy that knows nothing. I think you people need to shut up and stop being so negative. Comparing him to the others is bull crap when its different times etc..

[Sonic-and-Crash]

he is not flawless i dont say that ...but Sony is just reorganizing and doing normal corporate staff and this for some devious reason was published and now hypocritically even neighbor s dog starting to care about Playstation (as if they knew what moves and cancelation had done the previous CEO ..it s irony......also not even 1 word spoken about Phil Spencer who hasnt released 1 game 5 months now and probably fired half of the staff of 343 )

What it anger s me more is that PS5 has excellent launch course and launch library with variety of content from start (Demon , Sackboy , Bugsnax Desruction)...and still media is mad because fired up Syphoon filter and Pupeteer director who literally i believe without them their games would have been far better (Days Gone Pupeteer)---see ASOBI team Astrobot and what AAA potential was hidden inside Japan studio guts

[neutralgamer1992]

To the author you are forgetting don matrick who by himself destroyed xbox brand and lost the generation before it even started. Under jim ryan sony has been dominating europe and under him ps5 can't be produced fast enough to be sold to everyone. Why would Sony let him go you do know the person making the decision is not him ryan right? Would wide studio president HERMEN HULST

He is the one who makes games released decisions not jim ryan. And guess what hermen was the one under GG who made KZ so he knows another might not be needed right now

Is simply amazing to me a guy in Jim Ryan who is currently heading a company whose product sells out faster than they can make it but some Fanboys want him fired

Instead of getting your feelings hurt try to understand the business aspects of it he makes Sony a lot of money that's all they care about

[Imalwaysright]

I'm european and I have absolutely no idea as to what he made in order for the Playstation to be so successful here. He just coasted along while more qualified people (such as Cerny) layed the foundations that made and make the Playstation brand the most successful ever in console gaming.

[Chocoburger]

Jim Ryan is not the reason why PS5 and PSN are so successful. He's just a suit.
PS5 and PSN are so successful because Sony built up over 20 years of consumer trust and fanaticism.
There were far less third party games on N64 and Saturn compared to PS1, which dominated the market.
Trend continued the next generation as well.

Jim Ryan didn't create the IPs that made gamers fall in love with the PS brand. From early Crash Bandicoot, to Ape Escape, to Parappa, to Jak, to Resistance, to The Last of Us, to Puppeteer, to Horizon Zero Dawn, and so much more.

Ryan is coasting off the past 21 years of success that PS has built up. Any idiot in his position would see incredible profits, he's not doing anything important, valuable, or special. The fact that there is a *growing* sense of dissatisfaction amongst *the biggest PS fans* is not a good sign.

He needs to improve, admit that some of his stances are wrong. Make some changes, if nothing else, than to placate the PS fans, which by the way, is his job.

[Gamer75]

#6 yet neither ms or nintendo are currently charging $70 for their games so its fair to criticise Sony for it

[Teflon02]

Really naw. Nintendo game prices on Switch are very over priced. Pokemon games have had a price hike, Games like Zelda DX lmao full price rereleases with higher prices than the release prices of older games. People just like to ignore things. MS hasn't had an opportunity to raise the price and probably won't now simply to try look better. They mainly care about gamepass anyways not sales. Ultimately both actually can't be defended in the same and matter if you really think about it. Criticize the industry for the price hike. As it's not only Sony

[StoneyYoshi]

Nintendo VERY RARELY drops their first party games prices. All their first party games are still $60.... At least the ones charging $70 initially don't permanently keep them at that price forever. I know you can buy at other retailers with more sale opportunities but that doesn't make it okay for Nintendo to basically never do it. Breath of the Wild is still $60... a 4 year old game as of march 3rd.

[ArthriticPowers]

MMO Days gone would of been refreshing from PS 1st party....guess it wouldn't of fitted into the action adventure profile Sony prefer though. Shame.....in saying that I'm a massive dayz fan though so my bias it out there for all to see.

[TheEroica]

Full out Sony fanboy meltdown happening... Grab the popcorn!

[COS]

I honestly think you believe Sony can do no wrong, which is definitely not the case.

Days Gone is probably on my list of Top 10 games I have played. One of the few console games I have every played through twice. Makes me wish Sony would sell that studio to MS LOL. Where is your source that this game was going in the direction of a DayZ game, were you in on the pitch meeting?

I agree with you on Kojima

People are still using the PS3, how hard is it to keep the store up? This is one area MS has a huge advantace since the tech is backwards compatible and the power of the Cell was never fully realized.

Killzone 2 was an excellent game, this is coming from a MS Halo Fan, it deserved another go around.

$70 exclusives, so is leading the charge for more expensive games, if this was a MS thing, there would be an uproar on this site.

I agree with the posters opinion, some of these things should be revaluated, as should his position at Sony.

[IRetrouk]

They made 3 more after number two, how's that abandoning games🤔

[StoneyYoshi]

"$70 exclusives, so is leading the charge for more expensive games, if this was a MS thing, there would be an uproar on this site."

This was an industry thing... not a Sony or MS thing. If anybody led the charge it was 2K Games with NBA 2K21...

[DarXyde]

"1) Japan Studio may have been stripped by its old personel (who imo had problems with productivity and direction) but most probably Sony prepares ASOBI team ,successor of Japan Studio which can take on Nintnedo s Mario team man to man"

I disagree. I think they had plenty of direction and vision, but it depends on what's possible. Look at Shadow of the Colossus: that game was incredibly ambitious, and it still blows my mind that it's a PS2 game. The Last Guardian didn't lack direction, it lacked the hardware horsepower to realize its vision on PS3. What else... Gravity Rush, not aimless. Siren, not aimless. The Last Guy, simple and focused. I really don't know where you get the impression that they weren't productive had no direction. ASOBI is not a bad team at all, but they work on very small experiences. I would not compare their scale to Nintendo, full stop. You're comparing ASOBI to an industry titan that has a remarkably consistent track record for quality spanning decades. Not in the same league.

"2 Days Gone 2 would have been a completely different game than the first game..more similar to DayZ and other massive online Zombie games .Correctly Sony turned down the pitch.."

Based on what? I think you're making some unfounded assumptions here.

"3 Same with Kojima , Kojima offered its Stadia episodic horror game to Sony and most propbably they turned it down
Episodic Horror game would be waste of maney and unsafe for Playstation SP used audience (i wouldnt like it for example and i m fan of Kojima)"

That did not stop me from buying Siren Blood Curse —you know, from that studio that you said was unproductive and having direction problems. Game was brilliant.

"4 to hyperreact on PS Store shut down is hypocritical ...im sure that 99% of PS players had forgot it existed or even dont own PS vita PS3 anymore (me as fan of old PS games had anything downloaded from release , i wouldnt wait 10 years after to play classic games) and most probably these games will return on PS5"

I'm in the 1% then. I actually play my Vita with some regular frequency (2-3 hours every 2 weeks or so). Your mentioning the return of classics on PS5 is part of the problem: Ryan would have you purchase them again, and I'm not with that. At least with PS3's PSOne classics, I could transfer them to my PSP or Vita and take it on the go. That is literally what I use my Vita most for: to replay PSOne RPGs (as well as Silent Hill and MGS).

"5 Killzone was never that good and most of those who react have nt even finished 1 game in the series"

Do you have any evidence for that? Or are you just generalizing? I don't care about Killzone much and I would much rather they focus on games like Horizon... But people do like Killzone. People not finish the games is like people not finishing CoD: plenty of people are in it for the multiplayer. The problem here is that Playstation is removing something people liked instead of expanding its software portfolio. That's the issue.

"6 70$ price will be applied by Xbox and Nintnedo too"

The difference is that you have options on Xbox and it's not an issue for Nintendo yet.

Ryan needs to go.

[ghostrider32]

Killzone was never that good? Do you smoke weed?

[outsider1624]

"Killzone was never that good.." i took that personally.

[CobraKai]

You had me til Killzone was never that good.

[King_Noctis]

“ general info war against PStation”

You make it seem like everyone are out to kill the PS brand. We’re not. The only reason that I had purchased the PS5 at scalper’s price is because I love the PS brand and its games. To see the brand going downhill just because of one man, well, there is no defending that. The man’s gotta go, Sony should (I daresay must) bring in someone like Shawn Layden to replace him.

[DJStotty]

1) - If it was Microsoft stripping a studio down you would have a different reaction.

2) - I thought Sony were the one to take "risks" on games?

3) - "unsafe for Playstation SP used audience"? What? The Playstation SP section is only a small portion of the total userbase. An episodic game, is a lame excuse to turn a project down.

4) - Taking options away from current userbase, no matter what it is is anti-consumer.

5) - To suggest Killzone was never that good, Killzone 2 - 91 Meta, Killzone 3 - 84 Meta.

6) - $70 price tag only applies to Sony 1st party, and the milkers EA/Activision, not Microsoft 1st party as suggested.

Look at the price of PS5 1st party :-

https://www.game.co.uk/en/g...

[garos82]

oh be quiet. i am a huge playstation fan and you are just spouting nonsese. Ive been supporting them precisely for the "freedom" they give their studios. Days gone 2 cancellation doesnt sit well with me and get lost "Killzone was never good"/ You are talking out of your ass. 70$ price is the salt in the injury and dont give me this nonsense "games are more expensive to make now and look what nintendo/xbox are going to do"

[thecodingart]

Kill one was never good <- platinums 2 games and almost 3... this franchise was phenomenal

[PS-Gamer-1986]

Wtf i was with you until #5

[Juvia]

Man, look at all those fake down votes. C'mon guys, it's not even subtle.

[Dark_Overlord]

If his choices affect Sonys profits, you can guarantee the share holders will be demanding his removal.

[Ryushaa]

The scalpers and scarcity of games related hardware (consoles and GPU's mainly), are probably masking those anti-consumers and self degrading decisions. Which make them appear harmless now, but when things return to normal and the market see the PS brand so bare boned, only then they will fell the drop in sales.

[Nitrowolf2]

yet those scalpers are selling at their dumb prices, even if they have to lower them sometimes. People end up buying from them otherwise it wouldnt keep happening

[CrimsonWing69]

Problem is they aren’t. He’s saving them money and making them money, but at the cost of pissing off consumers.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

If he really did turn down Kojima's next game, I'm going to be so pissed.

[JackBNimble]

I thought Kojima was independent, shouldn't he be funding his own production?

[DJStotty]

@JackBNimble

"I thought Kojima was independent, shouldn't he be funding his own production?"

You still need a publisher.

[LegoIsAwesome]

I doubt it will happen, there are many Sony fanboys that thinks Jim Ryan is doing a good job. In reddit I kept on saying the PS5 exclusives are on the category Console exclusives in the PSN and will soon come to PC if that what that means, was bombarded with downvotes lol.

I said from the very beginning of HZD PC announcement, Jim Ryan will be the downfall of Sony.

[Eonjay]

His lead has lead to the largest single quarter a company in the entire gaming history... ever.

[LegoIsAwesome]

Only because he was riding on what his predecessor achieved.

[Dark_Overlord]

And look what happened when Don Mattick was promoted to PIEB and what happened with the Xbox360 to the Xbox One. It is quite easy to ruin what has previously been built up.

[Orbilator]

Sony know how to trim costs and remove deadwood. I think Jim Ryan has taken the company in the right direction. The amount of BS going round at moment is embarrassing and fair play to Sony, they not said a word or risen to this trash.

[gravedigger]

Yep! Andrew House shut down Evolution Studios and Guerilla Cambridge. What happened in the end? Nothing.

[Knushwood Butt]

Ex-Evolution made Onrush, which was a commercial and critical failure.

Wish they would come back and make Driveclub 2 VR though.

[King_Noctis]

Are you referring to people that either got layoff or left the company as deadwood? If so, not cool dude.

[Orbilator]

Well god forbid you ever run a company and keep unproductive people working for you. That's not good business for any company.

[RaiderNation]

Sigh, this article again?

[darthv72]

it's a blog post, not really an article.

[King_Noctis]

What’s wrong with this opinion piece?

[Rachel_Alucard]

A bunch of people don't like it because it breaks their "community" of same opinions. Just realize, no disagreements, No progress. That's why this blog post exists and you see plenty of people trying to dismiss it.

[RaiderNation]

@Rachel _Alucard

No, it's because there are way too many idiots with a keyboard trying to play armchair CEO who actually have no clue what they are talking about. This is quickly turning into a ridiculous social media "witch hunt" by a bunch of clueless mouth-breathers who would have no idea how to run a company like Sony. IS Jim Ryan the right guy for the job? I think the only accurate answer right now is the jury is still out. We really won't know the answer to this until 2-3 more years into this generation. But right now, anyone who claims otherwise is just being lead by their fanboy emotions and not looking at it realistically. The reality is A.) The sales of the PS5 are outpacing the sales of the PS4 and that's in the middle of a parts shortage and global pandemic. B.) Sony just posted a record 25 billion dollars in revenue and a record 10 billion in profit. Sonys game division generated more revenue than Xbox and Nintendo combined! This happened on Jim Ryan's watch. That's all shareholders see. They don't get caught up in the emotions of "MLB is going to Game Pass, therefore Jim Ryan must go" or "Jim Ryan said no to Days Gone 2, therefore he must go." Jim Ryan isn't going anywhere. People need to accept it and find something else to be outraged over.

[Rachel_Alucard]

@raidernation
You are missing the point. It's less to do with Jim Ryan and more on, if companies see people are pissed at their recent decisions, they see that people aren't ok with how they are operating currently. It doesn't mean Jim gets moved or that execs get kicked. It just means that business plans get adjusted in the future if enough negative feedback goes through. Execs absolutely go out of their way to stop outrage. That's why they started censoring titles and making Japanese releases pure hell for lower end devs and nothing changed, because not enough of an outrage happened. Meanwhile, MS wanted to double the cost of live out of nowhere and quickly reverted that and more not even 7 hours after announcing it. Because of the outrage again. Right now, the outrage isn't strong enough but if things continue to add up you might see things change that never would have happened otherwise. Having that negative reception from the get go is central to keeping it going on a large scale so it grows and catches the main branches eye.

[senorfartcushion]

Yep yep yep

[thtruth574]

I agree on the bc. PlayStation is the only thing that makes Sony money period. The Ps5 should have bc even if you say you don't play old games.
They could print money with proper back compat. Games are already made. They just really under delivered. Enhanced ps3 games would've been awesome.

[RaiderNation]

If you think PlayStation is the ONLY thing that makes Sony money, you need to do your research. Sony is a huge conglomerate with many revenue streams. PlayStation might be generating MORE revenue than any of their other divisions but it's not the only division that makes money.

[Stanjara]

You think that their tvs makes them money compared to the competition? Or movie industry? Or streaming? Or music?
Mobile phones? Pfff
Only thing after Playstation are their cameras. That's good.

[outsider1624]

@stanjara

He said it's not the only division making money. Doesn't matter if it makes more than the competition or not but its making it.

[Extermin8or3_]

actually sony's record label makes them loads of money, the mobile phones unit has plenty of success. Their cameras yes make them money but so does the film studio. PS3 backwards compatability via software is always going to be incredibly hard if not nigh impossible.

[italiangamer]

Of course this trash got approved in a heartbeat, who would have thought that lol

[darthv72]

do blog posts ever get failed?

[AngelicIceDiamond]

I would like to get this gen off the ground first before we start kicking him outta office.

Though all that happening (or supposedly happened) in the first 6 months after launch isn't good though.

[Dawknight316]

This just needs to get to Sony. This are really looking bad as of late.

[gravedigger]

Really, they don't. PSVR2 is announced, Returnal is here soon, after that Ratchet. PS5 is performing well in games comparison against stronger XSX. PS+ games offer is great, PS+ collection for newcomers is great. What else do you want.

[Knushwood Butt]

It's the usual speculation crap simply because Sony has been quiet recently.

The entitled crowd get anxious if there isn't some PR announcement every few days.

To Sony - Please just continue to focus on delivering great games. Thanks.

[Blashted]

If only everyone on N4G held Sony to the same standard as they do Microsoft and Nintendo. Jim Ryan is making bad moves just as MS executives did for years and should be called out on it. But Sony can do no wrong and any mention of wrongdoing is "overblown" or "not a big deal". Small stuff now, give it a year and see what he's up to. The fact that mobile gaming and PlayStation are mentioned in the same sentence by Sony should be a cause for concern.

[sinspirit]

Actually, no one is pointing out Phil's terrible history. All the articles are supporting him and his PR campaign that he is only doing good things and the bad stuff is all his predecessors, yada yada yada. He's behind Kinect focus in 2010, he was promoted for it and he pushed their gaming divisions to ditch hardcore gamers for it. He made Rare and Lionhead develop solely for Kinect. He is the reason game releases for XBox One's launch were not ready and the release schedule for the rest of the generation has been pathetic in quality and in release schedules. Then we have Series X launch with even worse exclusives, or lack thereof, followed by him being blind to the state of Halo Infinite, and telling us to wait *again* for the CGI trailers to eventually become games. Don't forget the fake Kinect demonstrations like Milo and choreographed stage demos of games that never released, don't forget his hype of the cloud and lying to consumers about increasing power, don't forget about Crackdown 3's massive downgrade and them hyping up its cloud physics on a LOCAL server with them for the stage demo. More importantly, don't forget that he was in charge of all XBox studios since 2010, was in the same group of executives that got fired, but only made it through because he wasn't a public speaker getting flamed on the internet for simply speaking MS's new policies. Most importantly, don't forget the games. A consistent release schedule of *good* games.

Nah, everyones covering Phil as good cause he has a bigger PR team, more journalist talks, and uses twitter more often. We have literally been getting the exact same articles every day. GamePass and backwards compatibility. XBox's only strong suits. When cross-platform suddenly was only a big deal now that MS pushed for it years after Sony asked for it, and then Square Enix did but MS turned it down. No one cares about these topics until MS starts talking about it. It's blatantly obvious what's going on here. People complained about Sony for third party exclusive/timed content, but didn't complain when MS did it, praised Phil for talking about it being anti-consumer and being against it, but said nothing when a week later XBox continued buying third-party exclusive/timed content again.

Jim Ryan has barely been given a chance. We don't even know if the studio had other pitches that they found more interesting, or how good the pitch was. Sony doesn't typically force sequels for the sake of it being popular. Yes, it's been done, but the story tends to still hold strong. Also, I like how everyone has been complaining about open world third person cinematic action games, yet now here they are complaining they said no to one for them to do something else

[ApocalypseShadow]

It's all a part of this narrative campaign of tear Sony down, then write puff pieces to prop Microsoft up. Happens every year. It's tiring.

[Knushwood Butt]

This.

No sequel to gruff white male and all of a sudden there is uproar?

For the record, I would love a DG sequel that improves upon the original, but would appreciate a great new IP as much or possibly more. I mean, the new IP is riskier yet still got greenlit so the pitch must have been pretty dang good.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

"You haven't proven anything as misinformation. "

What's misinformation is that Phil was behind all of it as if he was the leader all this time. It's Mattrick and Ballmer at the helm Phil was listening to his bosses. OK his career involvement that makes better sense.

Cool now that he's in charge he's going in the right direction. MS isn't the subject here Sony is that's the topuc. What Jim has done isn't good period, he gets no criticism from ppl like you and just yes man all that he does he'll get away with anything and everything because all is perfect all the time. It's best to question him now early rather than wait and see what other potential damage he could do, if any.

We need to keep these execs in line. All of them. Heavy deflection and saying but, but, but MS! In every scenario While not questioning anything he's done is very blind and backwards.

Don't make excuses, confront some of these issues.

[sinspirit]

@AngelicIceDiamond

"Now that he's in charge". What did I just say? It's not "now". It's the past generation, the years before that he was in charge of European XBox studios that both have stagnated, and then every studio since his promotion to oversee all XBox studios followed the same pattern under him.

You just gave him props for the good, but you blamed the bad on other members of MS, or the company as a whole. I just talked about this.. "Heavy deflection and saying but, but, but MS!".. and again, you already said it wasn't Phil's fault. You did say "but MS.."

Also, how are you gonna try and talk to me like you "disproved" anything I ever said. That's disinformation. You have not done so, not previously like you inferred, and not now. So don't make up how events panned out. Clearly, no one blamed 100% of everything on him. I just told you that I did strongly agree MS is behind a lot of these things as well. It's not all on him, but you have to accept a lot of it is. That's the point. You're going to blindly compliment him for good decisions but push the bad decisions as a MS thing. Then you say to keep executives in check? But, not Phil, right? When Jim does bad then it's Jim. Okay.

I'm using him as an example and a parallel for how people are blowing things out of proportion with Jim when Phil has not only been given many free passes, but has a much longer past of greater disappointments. Yet all we hear is how great he is and pointing all the blame at MS. Why don't we blame Sony instead of Jim then? Where was the "fire Phil" comments over Crackdown 3, Sea of Thieves launch, blatant lies of console/cloud capabilities, Halo Infinite, average at best AAA games, and waaay too long release schedules going on to this day.

Where's my Jim Ryan excuse? You can't point the finger at him and give a pass to the other guy. It's common sense that we don't have good judgement yet over his capabilities and decision making in this position. People are literally harping on him for every little thing. I have no excuse or particular defense for Jim. I only point out how selective people are with all their finger pointing and conveniently ignoring a greater offender in the market.

[AmUnRa]

Yeah i with you on this 100%. The hypocracy of die hard xboxboxfans is going through the roof. The purpose of this is clear as water.

[Orchard]

@surferz Barely a year? It’s been over two years.

[lellkay]

Sinspirit laying down the law. Good man!

[AngelicIceDiamond]

3rd time you've deflected and blamed Phil. You'll blame anything and everything at this point. We all know Phil's history this past gen that's been said, over and over and over again we know he's not perfect and still not perfect and most likely never will be. We still need AAA gaming for the Xbox.

Sony raised the prices of PS exclusives y'all turn the other way or justify the price with out seeing what the games are if that price tag is warranted. MS raises the prices of Live and tremendous uproar and they changed it back that's the difference between the 2 fan bases.

Anyway it's helpless instead of addressing some of these issues and concerns let's blame someone else for Jim Ryan's missteps.

I personally don't think it's gonna get that bad with Jim at the helm but who knows.

[sinspirit]

@AngelicIceDiamond

The point entirely evades you. I've told you what I agreed with and pointed out things you've said that are hypocritical and deflection, like blaming MS for the bad and complimenting Phil for the good. I told you why I compare the two. If you can't move forward with this conversation and find common ground then you shouldn't be talking. You're putting words in my mouth. Obviously, no one said anyone is entirely to blame. I just spoke about that. If you're not willing to read or comprehend what someone just said to you then stop talking altogether. You're just embarrassing yourself and trying to keep talking till I fumble or you finally have a point.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

@sin "Actually, no one is pointing out Phil's terrible history. All the articles are supporting him and his PR campaign that he is only doing good things and the bad stuff is all his predecessors, yada yada yada."

Actually EVERYONE has pointed out MS bad history specifically in the last 8 years. Article after article and YT after YT video. Seriously where the hell have you been the last 8 years?

Sure now there's positive PR campaign because of the systems and services they set in place. Sure, they are worthy of legit praise. Nobody is praising Kinect, lower specs in the X1 etc but most importantly no new compelling 1st party games which still. Needs to be adressed.

I'm not gonna read your whole wall if the text but I'll point this out.

"He's behind Kinect focus in 2010, he was promoted for it and he pushed their gaming divisions to ditch hardcore gamers for it."

I dunno how many times I have to say it or stop your wrong information. He wasn't behind the Kinect decisions and casual gaming. He was following orders what else was he suppose to do? Your entire post is false.

Anyway Jim has made some questionable decisions that need to be addressed. Like I said imo he hasn't done nearly enough to just throw him out considering the gen just started but these concerns need to be at least addressed, if there is cause of concern. Instead of going on a mega deflective rant about MS and the same tired history that everyone knows about MS.

[gravedigger]

Yada, yada. Remember Dec. 2019 and XSX reveal. MS was loud, Sony was silent...And what happened in the end. It happened that XSX launched with 0 exclusive games. MS advertised their new shiny Xbox as BC platform. LOL

[sinspirit]

You haven't proven anything as misinformation. I'm literally stating the fact of his career involvement with these XBox events. The man literally took over the whole gaming division during the rise of Kinect, and has since done nothing himself, the game release schedule since his promotion has been the worst it's ever been and it hasn't gotten any better in these 11 years he was in charge of XBox studios, and his time in charge of XBox entirely.

You also just said "MS bad history" instead of bad Phil's history. Can't accept his own bad history with MS? Can't specifically state his name negatively? So why would we do the opposite and praise him for good MS decisions? He's never held accountable for the bad.

The issue with good MS press is that it's beaten into everyones heads for months and years. The same topics always repeated and covered that are XBox's only positives. No one else gets covered that way, and then we gloss over any new negative MS info while going a month of having to hear a new Sony "controversy"

People on here call him out for lying about cloud and other promises, but the articles and journalists don't care to cover him negatively. Then we've got the apologists always standing up for him for people that were fired 8 years ago, or MS this and that, but still don't realize the game releases are all on him. If MS is all to blame, which I can strongly get behind for many XBox issues, then people shouldn't be praising him for the good that is also a MS decision.

But for game releases. That's not much of a MS decision.. that's on XBox. You think it's on MS that these games release half-baked after very long development cycles? They get plenty of dev time. Money already spent.

If Jim Ryan is actually an issue, I don't want to hear from a "journalist" that wouldn't call for Phil to be fired either.

[outsider1624]

"Anyway Jim has made some questionable decisions that need to be addressed. Like I said imo he hasn't done nearly enough to just throw him out considering the gen just started but these concerns need to be at least addressed, if there is cause of concern. "

I think we should give it time really. Let's see what the next six months hold up. Didn't Phil get a lot flak for some of his decisions? Xbox fans defended his ass and now look at him (though, under him the XSX/S is the first console not to have any launch exclusives)

[Teflon02]

Every negative rumor about PS5 near release was debunked despite sony being quiet. They made like 400 lies to the point Xbox fanboys really think there's no PS2 titles in BC, They don't think it has full PS4 BC. They don't think PSNow can download games etc. They think Sony rushed the PS5 launch unprepared when they were clearly more prepared than MS lol etc. Like it's always a Negative Sony Narrative. People keep running with unconfirmed things. The PS3 thing you can complain about absolutely but people are running with it about :preservation. (5% of PS3 games are on disc) If this was a Vita conversation you'd have a better argument where it's probably 50/50 but everyones focused on PS3. You clearly see they're trying to do something about BC when they got Patents and hiring an emulation team. Everything else is just being ridiculous. Also people really think it's a single person who makes these decisions lol. It's not, that's not how it works in a major company like this lol

[Robodrake]

What a dumb comment

[giveyerheadawobble]

I also get the impression he wanted to abandon PSVR. His recent statements - which subsequently weren't true - are evidence of this.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Ridiculous. His recent "misinterpreted" and "read out of context" statements means that journalists and bloggers either can't read. Or they purposely misread Sony about future VR because Sony wasn't giving them information. Sony being quiet doesn't mean they aren't working.

Research is your friend.

[gravedigger]

Yeah, same thing when Sony were silent last year. LOL

[giveyerheadawobble]

Are you his best mate? Lover? Do you wear Sony underpants and have a Playstation bedsheet?

The things fanboys come out with, eh? Facts are that this fella is just another corporate mouthpiece and is only interested in one thing: money and profit. Same as Microsoft's stance. If it isn't going to be making them all the money, then why bother? He made a statement that PSVR wasn't in the immediate plans of the company, only to have that statement thrown back in his face in an embarrassing manner when the company itself came out and revealed that not only does the PSVR2 exist, but about 2 weeks later, they then show the controllers for it. Out of context? I dont fucking think so. The guy spoke out of turn when he wasn't supposed to, hence the reveal and the information drop.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Seems you couldn't read either. What Jim said, "Was VR going to be mass market this year or next year?" Jim said no. The entire VR market. And that's a fact. VR as a whole has years to go to be widely accepted. Not anything about PSVR 2.

You might need more reading comprehension. The fact you started name calling tells me your position is weak. You already lost buddy.

[Darkborn]

Journalists just like this remind me of the state of America right now. Instead of waiting for a trial, they immediately go to social media or go burn down the city demanding stuff. Wait for Jim Ryan to show us what he's working on. I'm sure there is an E3 conference being worked on. Let's see what they have in show. I doubt Sony with their best few quarters in a row, and Jim Ryan publicly saying he was gonna use most of the profit for organic growth and acquisitions. Why would Sony downsize Japan studio, close down 3 storefronts and make a denuvo partnership for all future online first party games, an epic games partnership and a kodagawa partnership, plus possibly a rumored Konami licensing deal? Maybe they are working on something, who knows. Let's wait and see.

That we know of, Sony also tried to aquire WB games and layou Holdings. I'm sure they are shopping around. Also, how long has Microsoft spent last Gen doing almost nothing until finally recently getting it somewhat together, although they still have no exclusives except the medium.

[Darkborn]

I would also like to add that I find it really funny that days gone got review bombed by everyone for having a gruff white male as the lead charactor and it being super bland, and just another zombie game and all that.. But now that days gone 2 is "canceled" or "put on hold" those same people are standing with their pitchforks waiting for Jim Ryan to show his face. Gotta love media.

[Knushwood Butt]

Literally posted the same thing above, THEN read your post!

[darthv72]

I dont think lodos is a journalist as this is not a news piece but a blog post.

[ApocalypseShadow]

And this blog post stinks.

[Vengeance1138]

lmao what a fail blog, Jim Ryan is making Sony more money than ever before so this dudes calling for his head based off what? Random internet Sony conspiracies? Author needs to step back from the internet for a few days and stop sipping the koolaid.

[thtruth574]

If they want to keep making money they probably should listen to the people buying their product.

[Roarke]

haha... this is not how evolution and business is working..

[WillyC009]

Most of the ‘people’ writing these things aren’t buying their product. Let’s be real here.

[Jericho1337]

Yeah forget the consumer, as long as Sony is making money then what’s the big deal?.....

[ApocalypseShadow]

No one has proven that Jim is making mistakes.

Other executives have closed studios or canceled games or restructured the company. But we didn't see knives and pitchforks pointed at Sean or Jack or Kaz. This baseless rage gamers have nothing to stand on when the console is doing well.

[Vengeance1138]

You do realize where Sony is getting a ton of money from right now right? The consumer! Meaning despite the vocal minority, the vast majority of users are happy to keep buying Sony products. Don't like it? Vote with your wallets, only that's not how people work and will continue buying Sony games regardless. Example? Look at the amount of people that were against TLOU2, massive internet rage and yet... It sold well. The small vocal minority literally means nothing, you should come to terms with that.

[Viking_mo]

Theres already a petition to remove him. It started at 20 but now more than 1500 and it attracted David Jaffe attention

[Christopher]

If Jaffe approves, I automatically disapprove. The guy is not a person who makes good decisions in business.

[Knushwood Butt]

David Jaffe!!!

[Vengeance1138]

Lmao a petition! Hahaha because a massive mega corp would base firing a major leader based on an internet petition hahahaha. That thing could have millions of signatures and still be hilariously irrelevant. That's not how companies work, oh! The internet wants our leader fired! Better do it I guess...

[waderae]

Talk about Knee jerk reaction, its like a grannies disco....

Remember, all or at least majority of decisions made such as cancelling games, increasing prices, removing services etc, are done using DATA, data which you and me will never have access to. if they have raised price to £70 then there must be data that supports this move, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

I think people assume they know it all when it comes to multinational billion dollar business, armchair experts so to speak , to be honest, we all know next to nothing. Sony has its plan, has its focus, based on data, trends and philosophies that have got it this far, its far too early to tell if its failing or not. if it fails Sony will remove the head guys, if not they can continue counting the money.

Assume you only ever know 10% of the detail of ANY company... because that is probably being generous.

[XxSPIDEYxX]

LMAO!

[isarai]

Most of these are based on speculation and baseless rumors, but I do agree that shutting down Japan studio, and moving HQ to the US was a big mistake. And while I dont like that the ps3/vita stores are shutting down, we all expected it at some point. That's just the way of the digital landscape. Can't undo any of these tho, so not like replacing him is going to fix these

[Elda]

I'll give it time before judging. Most of what Sony/PS are doing I have no problem with but I have minor gripes about the PS5 far as the PS store,where is the PS5 web browser & the Live With PlayStation app including ND should be working on an original game instead of a remake of TLOU.

[Terry_B]

cringeblog is cringe.

[ApocalypseShadow]

What we all need. A useless blog post that's all over the place without really coming up with a reason on why Jim should go.

Only some games will be $70. Just as there were Sony exclusive games not released at $60 on PS4. Not all exclusive games are going to be $70.

Japan Studios had output problems where it took them forever to release a game or not pulling their own weight in sales. The Last Guardian was given every chance. Even pushed to an entirely different generation to complete. Sure. The game turned out okay. Other games from Japan Studios also weren't pulling their own weight against European and Western Studios. We can love the IPs released. But they aren't doing the numbers of other studios keeping Sony afloat. All you have to do is ask this blogger what major hit has come out of Japan Studios? Because From Software were responsible for Demon Souls and Bloodborne. No game from them have sold millions like other studios have.

Old stores closing because no one is really using them isn't a reason to rage. Ask consumers why Fry's closed. Yes. We liked Fry's. But Fry's was not getting customers. So, they closed. It's common sense.

Killzone was replaced with Horizon Zero Dawn. Which was a hit. Are we going to harp on Polyphony for not making Motortoon or Omega Boost? Get on Naughty Dog for making Uncharted and TLofU instead of Jak and Daxter? Get real.

Sony made over 4,000 games compatible with PS5 through backwards compatibility. And, PSVR and it's games are backwards compatible. AGAIN..Over 4,000 games.

All these nitpicking reasons just don't add up. Sony's PS5 is the hottest console that's hard to get. Sony is making money with games and subscriptions. Sony is releasing a new VR headset after a successful and PROFITABLE PSVR HMD.

New exclusives are being made and exclusives to long time franchises are in the making. If Sony's numbers were going South, then I can see and agree with this nonsense post. But that's not the case. Then this person throws in rumor and here say for their reasons.

That right there makes this blog trash. They see no reason to buy PS5. When PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PSVR show why you should. Besides the 3/4 generation wins, Sony continues to make new IPs and take risks each generation. Not one generation had the same executives at the top while doing so. Kaz, Sean, Jack, etc were all eventually replaced with fresh perspectives. That's not going to change.

[Silly gameAr]

You shouldn't have wasted this comment on this blog. In fact, just let them say wtf ever they want. When they get what they think they want, they'll realize how much they don't want that shit in the end anyway.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Silly, you know what these guys are up to. Can't wait for the next article that talks about Phil changing the console industry for the better by paying for subscriptions. And how no in house exclusives for a year for a system just launching is great for the industry.

[darthv72]

I'd love to see a modern day take on Omega Boost. It doesn't have to be PD that makes it so long as someone does... and does it justice.

[ApocalypseShadow]

True. I would love to see both their games come back. I still have Omega Boost and would play Motor Toon. Chances are slim to none. You can't even make Omega Boost playable between GT 7 tracks like Namco did with Galaxian because the PS5 loads too fast.

[yellowgerbil]

I haven't bothered with a ps5 yet, and with Microsoft buying bethesda and Sony not releasing any games that appeal to my interests anymore I see more value in getting an xbox even if it is just for the eventual Fallout New Vegas 2 that clearly is going to happen

[Profchaos]

$70 games vote with your wallet sometimes the quality justifies it like rdr2 or tlou2 was worth that IMO but a yearly FIFA game no chance or a more generic shooter no so I'll vote with my wallet and not buy it until a deep sale.

As for backwards compatibility I agree shuttering the PS3, PSP and Vita store is a bit of a death kneel to the concept and well it's upsetting to think that we will lose so much over time and I want to understand how long will it be before we see our purchased games no longer available for download. How long until infamous, GTA IV, little big planet etc are just memories even if you own a PS3 your battery on the mobo dies or HDD dies which is inevitable and you replace it you may be unable to re-download the games you own eventually.

It sucks and I would of liked to see the store eventually be moved into the new store despite actually hating that new store it's terrible especially on mobile. I still own all my PlayStation consoles back to the PS1 and believe it or not occasionally boot them up I replayed San Andreas on PS2 earlier this year despite owning the PS4 emulated game since it's missing half the soundtrack.

My ultimate hope is that Sony is cooking up some BC programs and they announce something after the store closure about it's migration or BC on ps5 and we keep our old digital games

The rest of the decisions like Killzone days gone and such I honestly don't care about I'more sad for the legacy we will lose the loss of storage if those franchises seem like more of a business decision I just hope Sony don't become fixated on tlou because they have so much more potential plus after playing tlou and tlou 2 I want something different maybe a bit happier

[Harryvok]

Massive overreaction. Also, company leaders aren't there to please your every whim. They are there to steer the company to profit. In that case, he's succeeding.

[gannzk]

Agree. PS5 games cost 80 euro in Europe. This guy needs to be booted asap and replaced with someone competent.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Jim Ryan is responsible for PlayStation Domination in every Nation. Are you kidding? Have you seen the console sales?

[FlintGREY]

Most of the PS3 games are on PSNow. If people really cared about the store closing, buy the games you want NOW and add them to your library. They'll be there for you download later. You people are trying way too hard to make Sony the bad guy. Give it a rest

[enkiduxiv]

I definitely don’t think he should be fired, but I don’t think he is above criticism at this point. I really didn’t like the statement he made about not seeing the point in supporting older titles.

I do realize that he is in a difficult position there. Sony doesn’t want to add backwards compatibility, so he needs to downplay interest in it. Nevertheless, to me he came across as an executive who doesn’t get gamers. Sean Layden would have handled that infinitely better.

I am still hopeful though. Even the worst rumors about Sony at this point suggest that the company is still prioritizing big blockbuster hits. This is exactly what I want from Sony and Nintendo. We aren’t going to get many hits with Microsoft’s mediocre service based approach.

[jznrpg]

Jumping the gun here . Let’s see how this gen turns out . The moves they made are considered bad aren’t as bad as made out to be . What games are delivered is what matters to me not the Pr machines of other companies . Days Gone 2 was supposedly an onlineMP game and I don’t want that game either .

[Petebloodyonion]

Yes! as a hardcore gamer I don't like Jim Ryan and want him gone for several reasons
- Not giving a damn about BC and my digital purchases.
- Closing the digital store for Vita
- PLaying the VR is not there yet and suddenly going ahead due to the success of Quest 2
- etc.

But the sad truth is that he's a moneymaker for Sony and here's why he will stay there.

- the majority of player are accepting the 70$ so more money from initial sales
- He's showing that remaking and remastering = easy money with minimal risk
- By closing the digitals store he basically raised the value of PS Now as some games are gonna be exclusives to the service if you don't own them already
- Also Expect Sony to re-release legacy titles on PS5 with trophy support (like Ps2 classic on Ps4) but at a higher price again bringing more money.

So yes I can damn as a gamer but his main goal is to bring more money to Sony and at that he's succeeding in stride.

[ApocalypseShadow]

PS5 is BC with PS4. If he didn't care, it wouldn't be there. Or he could have canceled it. He didn't.

Vita was dying. Everyone trashed on it. Sony kept the store open for years. Then, they decide they're done and now gamers complain Sony is moving on. Which is it?

Quest had nothing to do with Sony's next headset. You must have failed to see the patents, the finger demo, the profitable sales of PSVR and games, etc. If Quest was so successful, they wouldn't hide behind revenue numbers and state directly how many headsets they sold. Why is Facebook scared to say what they sold? What happens when the previous headsets can't play what Quest 3 does? Those gamers are in for a surprise. No different than console. It was already in the cards for PSVR 2. And you must have fell for the articles that took Jim's words out of context. You seem more intelligent than that. He only said VR as a whole is not mass market yet. Not last year. Not this year. And that's a fact he said. But taken waaaaaaay out of context.

Legacy games were released on PS4 with trophies before he took the reigns. You didn't complain under Jack or Sean. Why you complaining about Jim?

Nothing you said makes it seem that Jim should be gone. Only thing I see is that gamers like the laid back nature of Jack and Sean. But since Jim and Sony are much quieter and more business..."Well, I don't like him." Lol. Sure.

Did you ask for Jack and Sean to go when they closed studios under their control or canceled games? No? Then why are you raging now?

Don't be fooled by this fake rage narrative being spread. The same Sony train continues to chug along.

[Petebloodyonion]

"PS5 is BC with PS4. If he didn't care, it wouldn't be there. Or he could have canceled it. He didn't."
And it proves what? that he cared about the feature? when he basically trash the feature back then, Last I check I was mad early at Ps4 when they gave me the finger for my several PS3 digitals purchase.

"Vita was dying"
Tell that to the devs team that was still doing Vita game for ppl like me that do own a Vita but hey never mind I get it's better for gamers right (see my initial post).

" Quest had nothing to do with Sony's next headset."
Well here's Jim Ryan October 2020 interview about Vr where he basically mentioned that VR not quite ready but that Sony would probably announce something in a couple of years
https://www.washingtonpost....
So what changes in just 3 months that we ne see Sony suddenly announcing PSVR 2 with a bunch of Vr games?
https://segmentnext.com/202...

"Legacy games were released on PS4 with trophies before he took the reigns. You didn't complain under Jack or Sean. Why you complaining about Jim?"

Could I buy the cheapest ps3 version at the time? oh yeah, I could but now I will be forced the Nintendo route to pay the full amount because the cheap previous version doesn't exist anymore.
Again it's a better option for gamers right?

"Did you ask for Jack and Sean to go when they closed studios"
Nope and I don't recall complaining about Jim closing studios

[ApocalypseShadow]

But you want Jim gone. Even though other executives have done similar things. Removed servers, removed HOME, canceled games, closed studios, etc.

Again, that's like saying that Valve, HTC, etc are making new headsets because of Facebook. Lol. Come on. LMAO. You pull up the very same interview that he was taken out of context. BRAVO!!. Lol

Those developers knew that Vita was on life support. That's their fault when they could have made their games for another thriving platform. That's on them. Just like when developers we're left high and dry on Wii or Dreamcast or any other system. Your knew what was going on with Vita. Don't try and play like it had 10 more years of life. Tough luck. It happens. I've bought retro systems that had short lives. Nothing new.

[ghostliving]

I Agree, Jim Ryan is ruining PlayStation.

[Lore]

Where are the Sony 1st party epic RPG’s? Nothing to compete with Msft on that front

[soulreaper37]

I'm pretty sure Sony's gaming division does't have more money than Nintendo. If you go by total assets though yes because Sony has there hands in various business's. They are more diverse.

However, Nintendo is slowly diversifying too

[Redemption-64]

You might want to do some basic research on that. Playstation makes billions more than Nintendo

[SpineSaw]

Well, I'm no Jim Ryan fan but exactly how much $$$ does Microsoft pay to put out misleading information? That's all this crap is but the problem is people bye into this crap. Sony is fine and PlayStation is in a very good place. Sony has put out 2 AAA games in the last 5 months on release of the PS5 and they have another one releasing in a couple weeks that's a new IP and there then putting out a AAA multiplatform game in 2 weeks. All is good at PlayStation. What was the last First Party game Microsoft put on GamePass? Anyone even remember the name of it?

[Bronbron92]

Man y’all need to relax, shit like this wasn’t going down during the ps3 times, just shut the fuck up and be patient, I get it Xbox is doing big things with game pass and all but for real crying about everything I’m a Sony guy and whenever I see these news of a game being denied or a studio getting down sized I just think hopefully it for the best all we can do is wait and see what Sony has planned, stop crying about every little news that’s shared

[nickanasty206]

Little bit harsh, but I say let Sony keep doing what they are doing for now and see if it it is sufficient in a day and age where the industry is changing pretty rapidly. Nintendo has been able to hold on to its draconian ways for years now and be successful, and i realize Sony operate on a similar level with the "If its not broke, don't fix it" mentality. I say keep running with the current mentality, and see what happens. Either Sony is brilliant for the decisions it is making now that others seem to not be happy about, or they will be caught like a deer in headlights if they weren't forward thinking enough understanding the demographics of its users. Ultimately only time will tell. So far the idea of just making the most quality exclusive content is working. I am excited to see how it all plays out.

[RazzerRedux]

If Jim Ryan has moves in him, he needs to make them now.

[Father__Merrin]

My main gripe is sifting into Pc. Jim's a disgrace and needs to go

[OMNlPOTENT]

Yet the PS5 is sold out literally everywhere? Obviously he's doing something correctly if the demand is that high. Calm down.

[frostypants]

LOL the sudden anti-Sony astroturfing is so blatant.

[nickanasty206]

I see it going both ways personally. But when you are on top you are always the target. Its like that with anything in life. Remember that.

[waverider]

Why was this approved? If jim ryan needs to get fired. Well then i really dont know what should happend to the second hand car salesmen... The list is so long, so many years of PR and spinning stuff and damage control that is scary.

[azricf]

Agreed. The dude is clueless. He literally said he doesn't understand why anyone would play PS1/PS2 games.

[Chaos-Dad]

Don't forget:
- The Death of Sony's big & popular E3 Shows. (Sony's last E3 was 2018 under CEO "John Kodera").
- The strong, ra*ist & se*ist Censorship against Japanese Devs.
- The MLB "Scandal" (Its a big Marketing Fail against Xbox / GamePass, where is PS Now?).
- The Death of PlayStations "Community" Feature.
- The bad Communication with the Players & Fans
- The radical americanization & politicization of PlayStation.
- The lost "Second-Party" Studios like Quantic Dream, Supermassive Games (& now Kojima Productions?).
- "we believe in exclusives" -> PC, PC, PC.
- "we believe in generations" -> Cross-Gen, Cross-Gen, Cross-Gen.
- The "Hate" in the own Community... thx. to all this Shit.

Jim Ryan is the worst CEO in the History of SIE. But like 2013 with Xbox's Don Mattrick there are many little Fanboys who don't see the Problem with bad CEOs and defend everything :/

[Knushwood Butt]

Communities... I used that like once, by chance, for NMH:TSA and that was it and I have had a PS4 since launch.

[derek]

This is quite the moronic post.

[ManMarmalade]

I don't think Sony realizes that most of their playerbase is in their 30's or close to their 30's and we want the older games and BC. They keep doing things like this and they'll eventually notice that we don't want to be part of Jim Ryan's "future" for playstation. Just keep sending tweets and emails and they'll notice all the negative feedback. It worked for the Sonic movie after they revealed that UGLY design and they changed it because so many people complained.

[Christopher]

Most of their player base is 14-30. This is true for all consoles. And those are the age groups that spend the most on new games and move on more quickly. They have these metrics and know them to be the biggest money earners for them. They focus on these groups primarily. If they make a change, it's not to do anything but cater to these age groups.

[ManMarmalade]

True, but at the same time, a lot of the more hardcore gamers are put on the backburner because of this.

[melmacj]

Jim Ryan is sending Sony their grave like he works for Microsoft. I don't think he even care about gaming. Just a business figure head. For the love of GOD Sony can you hire someone else. You had top dogs like Jack Tretton, Shawn Layden who know how to speak to gamers. And to this day I don't understand why they're not part of the Sony team. We need to move from Jim Ryan asap. Phil Harrison was even better Jim Ryan. We hope you're listening Sony.

[FreeFallFrenzy]

The problem with what's going on is the rate of shared information. Information is light speed these days and Sony isn't keeping up. I'm sure they have a million things running in the background right now, but the problem is no consumer knows anything about them. I'm not one of those people who cries when information isn't shared daily, but it is kind of the way of the world now, and if people don't get updates on the daily they start to panic and hyperventilate. Like the OP here. But with that said, this is literally the same hyper-fanatical talk people were going on about when the PS4 and PS3 were released too. It's an all too typical cycle, just different generations having panic attacks over nothing.

[Destiny1080]

whoever Jim Ryan is, i actually agree with him

"PS5 exclusives raise to $70"
i don't care what game prices are, i will buy them when there at my price

"Japan Studio stripped to it's bare bones"
they were producing 8/10 games should have been shut down a long time ago

"Legacy psn stores closing"
Its time

"Killzone franchise retired"
Thank you

"Days Gone 2 denied"
best left for the PS6

[Orchard]

The amount of corporate shilling in this one post is insane. I think we just discovered Jim Ryan’s N4G account guys.

- Game prices are important, we aren’t here to milk / get ripped off.
- Since when we’re 8/10 games bad?
- Lots of good games are being left behind with those legacy stores
- Killzone is great and needs a new entry
- What? Why would it be good to leave a sequel for PS6 which will presumably be 5-10 years away.

Jim Ryan is the PlayStation version of Don Mattrick.

[Orchard]

No - I deduced this from him being CEO for over two years - and his actions taken during that time.

Might wanna get your facts straight before trying to post smart ass comments :)

[Orchard]

My apologies surferz - I forgot we aren’t allowed to criticize Sony or Jim Ryan ever and must pretend everything they do is awesome even when it isn’t. It’s great that he’s shutting off our PS3 and vita stores and killing off games like DG so we can re-buy TLOU for a third time.

Also two plus years in a job clearly isn’t enough time to judge someone, he’s just getting started!

My bad /s

[Orchard]

Two years is more than enough time to judge someone in a job.

Compare him to what other SIE leaders did in their first two years. He’s more Don Mattrick than House, unfortunately.

[JagX22]

Can't we get this post taken down? The guy is referencing old data from an IGN post 3 years ago ( https://www.ign.com/article... It's wild hyperbole and flat blog opinion. Substantially missed the mark.

[Good-Smurf]

OK so when they voted him out what's next?
Who's going to take that position?
I can't see the retired guys coming back it barely if ever happened in corporate world.
Ken is riding in the sunset retiring for years now they would need Sean Connery level of stimulus pay to get him back to work at Sony again.
Jack if he REALLY cares then he will come back to help without a cent involved.
Andy, well he's a nicest of all but pretty hands off guy,not likely but he sure have passion.
Shawn He could've stay but chose to quit Sony, definitely won't be back not after over 30 years working for Sony.
Shu is the man for the job,he was there since the beginning is a pro gamer and passionate but he's mostly busy with Indies and time is running out.
The thing is almost all of these guys just don't cared enough that they will be the white cavalry to save PlayStation when fans seemed to suggested them like it's nothing to it.
As for Jim well we really didn't really give him much time to prove compared to Phil Spencer.

[neomahi]

Ive been saying it for months but Sonys too blind and arent seeing it. Everytime a European CEO runs things, we see problems. American or Japanese CEOs know how to put their foot down. Jim Ryans a spineless fiend thats far too timid and scared to do the right thing. Agreed.

[Dandizzle]

Written by someone who apparently knows very little about the game industry. Things are a little bit more complex than how you state it, and while managing a ultra successful console launch, dealing with covid with a huge company. Honestly he has done really well. Share prices have gone up and Playstation as a brand is doing very well.

Also the whole bs about the legacy stores closing...it is something that happens, hosting these legacy stores draings resources

[Juvia]

You spelled Phil Spencer wrong.

[TheLigX]

I dunno... this is the beginning of the generation. It’s not going to be perfect. For all we know Sony has some big summer announcements about legacy titles.

[TheLigX]

Days Gone was not a good game... and the sequel was going to be games as a service. Good riddance.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

PS5 owners will want Jim Ryan gone when they go entire generation without a single system-selling exclusive and manipulates ps+ costs to push an additional service.

I can’t wait for M$’ Zenimax investments to payoff in 4-6 years so they can stop compensating with a shameless PR campaign

[chiefJohn117]

He's ruined PS

[Christopher]

"Sony, in its financial report for Q3 2020, shared that it sold 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units. This means since its launch in early November, 4.5 million units of the PlayStation 5 were sold in about a month and a half. In terms of revenue, Sony's gaming segment that includes consoles, games, and network services brought in JPY 883.2 billion (roughly Rs. 61,323 crores) and it was the biggest segment in Q3 2020. It was also significantly higher than its JPY 632.1 billion (roughly Rs. 43,884 crores) from Q3 2019."

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[TheTony316]

Yeah but according to him, PS is ruined.

[Knushwood Butt]

Post from OP:

'I know now my gaming ends at the PS4 though. I'm not buying a PS5 or anything else now. The ONLY way I change my mind is if they have a BC emulator. And since I'm not much into MS or Nintendo, looks like I'll be looking for a new hobby'.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Yes, or course, obviously, but what about Game Pass?

[SpineSaw]

Funny how this anti PlayStation crap comes to surface just when Sony is releasing a AAA multiplatform game and Another AAA First Party game over the next 2 weeks and the PS5 will be in stock in a couples days again at least for a hour or 2. TBO if I was running Microsoft I'd put out a anti Sony\PlayStaion campaign just as they are doing and why? ..... What else they got to talk about?...... Nothing! Nothing at all.

[Kyizen]

This one of the worst articles ever hardly anything is based on fact and who know how involved Jim Ryan was and the other factors.

[TheTony316]

lol what is this?

Btw. The Killzone franchise retired long before he was in charge lol. And the Kojima stuff is just rumors.

[ThePacemaker]

Kojima stuff is so serious. Phil Spencer doesn’t play around. That Luden on his shelf has a meaning. Why would he put a KP Luden behind him when their only game is a PS4 exclusive?

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised that Sony rejected his next game proposal. Sony already did it with Bend.

[TheTony316]

Then i hope Xbox fans actually support his next game instead of calling it garbage like they did with Death Stranding.

[Christopher]

Sony rejected Bend but Bend is working on a new IP that they proposed to Sony? Interesting take.

[NealGamby]

How TF did this trash opinion get turned into news? "They've shown me they have no follow through"? Are you out of your mind?! The company that literally makes the best first party games in the video game industry has shown no follow through? Hahahahahaha. Yeah ok, buddy. And let me guess who has. Microsoft? The company with ONE exclusive this gen. GTFOH.

[Gnarshaka]

Tabloid journalism at it's finest. STFU!

[CrimsonWing69]

I couldn’t agree more. Shawn Layden and Andrew House really made it “all about the games”. Yong Yea had a video showing a clip from a press conference where Shawn Layden was praising a game even though it didn’t sell well and exclaimed it’s “all about the games”.

Now, we have a guy who only thinks in profits without a balance of pro-consumer goodwill. Everything is changing for the worst. Less risks on new IPs, hell less games if the AAA only focus is to be believed. Backwards compatibility appeal isn’t understood by the man. Making the company focus more on western games and closing down their Japanese studios. Getting rid of the legacy stores. Not to mention the dude flat out lies for example, claiming a pure focus on next-gen, but then doing cross-gen for 2 years into the next-gen lifecycle.

This guy just isn’t the person I want running the ship.

[antikbaka]

sony is just a box of bad news.

[Stanjara]

Hit the road Jim!

[TGGJustin]

Jim Ryan is a big reason why we still have PlayStation today so dumb articles like this need to shut up. Europe become PlayStation land because of Jim Ryan. He was the leader in that part of the world. When the 360 was dominating the PS3 in the US Jim Ryan's leadership had the PS3 in the lead in Europe and a big reason why the PS3 came back to outsell the 360 worldwide. This man knows what he is doing. I'm going to miss Japan Studio too but maybe some of ya'll should've went out and bought those games at full price like I did and we'd still have them. Fact of the matter is almost all of their games didn't sell worth a damn and that's on the players, not Jim Ryan.

[neomahi]

Then he knows Europe, he doesnt know the other markets then.

[TGGJustin]

If he could lead PlayStation to outselling Xbox by over 4:1 over there I think the guy knows what he is doing.

[Bobertt]

I 100% agree i have been saying Playstation went downhill as soon as he took over. There is actually a petition to have him removed. I don't think it will get him fired but at least it will show Sony how much we don't like what he is doing. https://www.change.org/p/so...

[lellkay]

yawn. These posts. SMH.

[gravedigger]

This blog has 4 reports. Why isn't removed? What the hell administration is doing?

[Christopher]

Trying our best to not silence all opinions, even crappy ones we disagree with.

[NealGamby]

Last I knew, opinion pieces were not allowed to be submitted as news. I mean, you don't even allow youtube links. Or did the policy change? This is News For Gamers. Not Opinions For Gamers. If we want opinions, we would visit dude's blog.

[Christopher]

1. Opinion pieces are allowed. There has been no policy on not allowing opinion pieces, but we do limit them for various reasons (based on non-credible rumors, dead horse topics, low quality, etc.)

2. This is a user blog post.

[NealGamby]

"This is a user blog post"

Exactly. So why/how did it end up on the front page as a news article?

[UltimateOwnage]

I’m going to agree pretty strongly with most of these points. The guy seems to be steering the ship on the wrong way if they want to beat the momentum XBOX is building with Backwards compat, consumer loyalty, service diversity and platform value. I detest how MS is doing it, but simply buying out talent to build a portfolio instead of earning a reputation by cultivating innovation. However, what Sony has been doing lately is nothing short if disappointing since Jim Ryan showed up.

[Bennibop]

I don't get what going on with the anti Playstation sentiment that is building, I mean in the last 12 months they have;

Launched PS5 - which sales are.on par with PS4
Revamped ps plus with new title so less chance of user owning games.
Improved the offering each month on ps now.
Launched the ps collection with all ps highest rated titles.
Updating older 1st party titles for ps5.
Launched the most exclusives in 1 year than has happened in years.
Had a launch line up, when the competition had very little.
Has a large number of first party title for first year of PS5.

All of this during a pandemic. Jason's story was pretty.much that of any company the conducts r&d, projects get canned, teams disbanded and sent to support other work. Jeff Ross has said Bend supported ND between projects. Last of us remake is not any issue if ND are also working on a new IP (which 100% they are.) London studio, pixelopus and bend are all working on new IPS.

People just need to calm down and stop filling the silence with noncence.

[NealGamby]

Microsoft's pockets are deep. I believe they have hired a new PR firm to start spreading FUD again, ala 2006.

[Yi-Long]

The question is very simple; Do you trust Sony/Playstation to treat you and your purchases respectfully?

For me, the answer a few years ago, was yes. Now, I'm not so sure. More expensive games, dropping stores (PS3/Vita), dropping some big talented studios like bricks, etc.

Also, I'm still extremely bitter about how they treated Driveclub and the studio behind it.

Even Everybody's Golf's studio will now be gone to Apple I believe.

It's just beyond ridiculous how Sony was absolutely on top of the Gaming Industry Mountain, just a few years ago, loved and respected by every gamer, and these past few years they seem to have just thrown that all away in too many areas.

[lazyboyblue]

The people doing the voting would be far to busy counting their record profits to even notice fan outrage. Even if they dude notice, they care for nothing more than financial results. Unless sales start to fall - he stays.

[parkesy78]

Ive owned every generation since ps1 ,i bought ps5 at launch and bought demon souls and spiderman among others and there great ,but im now considering getting a series x theres no way im going to pay £70 for every launch game

[moriarty1889]

agree with everything noted. Ryan is a fucking CLOWN and needs to go ASAP. Bring back Shawn Layden before it’s too late.

[neomahi]

I would argue Tretton did a better job and has a much better track record, not to mention Phil Spencer hated him.

[thecodingart]

x86 has nothing to do with the backwards compatibility problem, it has to do with the dev kit and architecture of things like SPU allocation. Same reasons it’s been so difficult to emulate ps3 games on the pc at an acceptable performance.

[thecodingart]

For the downvotes, guys, 64 bit, 32 bit and ARM vs non ARM instruction sets are pretty typical issues in the programming world and are for the most part solved....

[OpenGL]

Unfortunately Sony is a for-profit entity and their board doesn't care about all this stuff, they care about making money, which Playstation is currently doing.

[Christopher]

Do people think this is any different for Microsoft and Nintendo?

[Kaze88]

What pisses me off is how they are treating their Japanese gamers and censoring japanese games. Not a fan of the hentai or visual novels, but there is a market and they are killing it. They are literally whales that will swallow all that, but no.

Also this new style of Sony doing business. No talks of any of their games or console features. They just pop out and reveal something and not explaining it properly. Then we scramble to try to make sense of it. For example Spiderman Miles Morales, they took good month or two before we got confirmation wtf it even is. Then "we believe in generations", games suck it up as "okay, we are now jumping on the next-gen fully" aaaaaaaaaand then weeks later they tell us that most of the upcoming games are for ps4 too.

Here we have xbox having all their nice hype marketing slogans like velocity architecture or mesh shading. Okay they go overboard with that shit in their marketing, but at least they are marketing the damn thing. Still we do not know shit what features PS5 has. It's like they took the playbook from PS3 era where they just were arrogant.

[Christopher]

I guess no one watched the GDC video where they explained the things you say they didn't explain last year? I was fairly certain it was pretty massive news at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Kaze88]

Yeah I have seen that, multiple times. People got mad about that since it was so technical and they had no games bla bla bla. It was never meant to show games, it was made for developers to get idea what the PS5 can do. I liked it and found it informative, but after that have they even marketed the new features or break them down even further? The answer is no, they have not talked anything technical since and they just stay in the shadows in silence. New GPU and xbox are marketing mesh shading and Sony hasn't used a word to express that their generically named Geometry engines primitive shaders does the same. No marketing and staying in silence is not good marketing.

[Wrex369]

People are so dramatic I don't even have a Ps5 and I own an Xbox and I know Sony and PlayStation are going to do fine. Geez.

[Napoca7]

First sorry for my english. But jim ryan did great things for PlayStation.

- he added 20 "free" instant games for every ps5 PS plus subscription user!!! The best exclusives almost!
- PS plus was always great, but in the last year, it got even much better. Games just like fall guys and much more day 1
- psnow price was cut from 120 to 60. That's fair! And it got a little bit better than before! But still far awaw from gamepass. But fair price for what you get
- just last month, Sony gave us 10 real free games, you don't need any paid subscription for it. It's free forever.
- WE will get a real strong vr 2!!!! That's very cool and now with real vr sticks and not this shit ps3 move sticks.
- Team asobi is pushed hard in Japan! Astro bot games.
- evedybody gets astrobot for free, with his ps5!!! A great game 4 hours long, but it's better than most of the fullprice games. Perfect showcase for the new controller
- ps5 dualsense they thought about something, not like Xbox always boring things or just copying others.
- the ps5 has a very good bc to ps4!!! The ps4 had nothing!!!
- the ps5 has a much better quality,.than the ps4or the shirts ps4pro
- ps5 was the only console, with Sony studio first party games for release!!! Microsoft has nothing.
- we even got destruction all-stars in PS plus,.
- next ist the new housemarqr exclusive and so on.
-last gen exclusives gets 60fps Updates like days got, ratchet & clank, infamous, god of war and so on. It takes more time than on Xbox, but we are still just in April.

There is much more positive!

Only real negatives
-10 dollar/euro prices raised from games
- Studio Japan. But this studio was full of problems. Where was bloodborne2?they had enough time, much before Jim ryan came...

To others: Sony closed Studios like evolution,guerilla Cambridge much before Jim's Ryan.

So now the world's ends because a 7 metacritic days gone, doesn't get a second part? The game was good, not less or more. But bend needed more than 5 years for it. And before the updates, it wasn't like a Sony first party game.

No more killzonr? Lol the last one sucked we all know.

[GordyNYC]

My problem with the $70 game being justified by development costs is that development for the PS5 is cheaper than it was the ps3 and ps4. Technology allows development to become faster and cheaper, not to mention the profit boost of going digital. The savings were never passed down to the consumer.

[Christopher]

I'm going to need a source on PS5 being cheaper to develop for. Especially one that takes into account 4k details, new graphic capabilities, and higher frame rate focus.

[gravedigger]

Of course this thread won't be removed by administration because it generate clicks. What else to expect

[hiawa23]

Meh, Playstation will be fine as usual.

[ThePacemaker]

PS3 barely edged out X360.

[hiawa23]

True, but, looking at every other gen, the Playstation has been the unstoppable brand. They will be fine. Looking forward to what Sony does with the PS5.

[TheTony316]

Are you saying Sonys worst selling console outperformed Microsofts best selling? Is this supposed to be a jab at Sony or MS?, lol.

[Edgelordsupreme]

I’m not reading all these terrible comments. It’s a corporatation, this isn’t the GM at a sports team. Why are all of you so dramatic?

[ThePacemaker]

The problem with Japan Studio is a lack of appreciation. Sony doesn’t feed them with funds. They had great talents. Koeichiro Toyama (Silent Hill creator), Toreiyama, Gavin Moore to name a few. Heck if I were Jim Ryan or Herman Hulst I would license out Silent Hill IP from Konami and let those guys develop a all new revamped Silent hill. But guess what? Sony shattered the studio.

[cerpintaxt44]

i agree sonys been pissing me off lately

[akaFullMetal]

If I listened to every claim on the internet, I would of seen Sony go out of business 5 times already before event he PS5 launched. People claimed Sony had messed up the PS5, Sony didn't have hardware raytracing, wasn't RDNA 2, Didn't have games for launch.
Everything has been proven wrong or was a non issue. Until Sony stops giving me games like Ghost of Tsushima, TLOU 2, Dreams, Miles Morales, Demon Souls (which by the way all released within the last year) then I'll start looking else where. Till then this is nothing but drama as usual.

[FernDiggidy]

"Turned down Kojima's next game (allegedly)" Huge positive if true.

[P_Bomb]

This thread needs some Kevin Butler! Pew pew :p

[Mithan]

- PS5 exclusives raise to $70
Everybody will be raising their games or has raised them. Microsoft simply hasn't because they are looking for a competitive edge. Either way, yes this sucks but I wouldn't hold Sony to account alone on this.

- Japan Studio stripped to it's bare bones
And? What have they released in the last 10 years that was worth a crap and did well in the market? Anybody?

- Legacy psn stores closing
Yep, that sucks. However, is this a surprise? The PS4 store will close one day too. No surprise. Then the PS5 store will close as well. No surprise. Consoles are not supported forever. No surprise.

- Killzone franchise retired
The game wasn't doing very well sales wise and was never a critical hit. Personally, I do not care about this series, but I agree that it does suck for those who are into it.

- Days Gone 2 denied
We don't know this for sure yet and its possible what was denied was just the shared world vision and another iteration will come to be. Days Gone is a great game and deserves a sequel, far more than Kill Zone IMO.

- Web store gets downgraded
Not sure I know what you mean by this.

- game patches starting to disappear due to legacy stores closing soon
That sucks, but it isn't surprising. This is one of the weaknesses of having patches on a console. They will probably not stay forever, vs PC's. On the flip side, it is possible that perhaps they will eventually create something that allows you to patch, though I doubt it.

- Currently killing any hope for full backward compatibility despite according to two patents they are working on solutions.
We don't know and while this sucks, its hardly a huge problem. We have not had it for almost 10 years now.

- Turned down Kojima's next game (allegedly)
And? So what. For all we know, the game sucks.

- Closing the video/movie rental store DESPITE LITERALLY just starting a new video service on their new bravia televisions.
If it doesn't make money and there are other options available, does this matter?

[ThePacemaker]

- Turned down Kojima's next game (allegedly)
And? So what. For all we know, the game sucks.

Speak for yourself. I know many people including myself enjoyed DS. Even though DS failed to attract your attention, it doesn’t mean Kojima’s next unannounced game sucks.

[Wolf873]

Agreed, he needs to go! Ever since the first day I heard him talk about PS and its future I had the sinking feeling this guy is gonna ruin the PS brand. He does not care at all about consumers/ fan-base. I know it's a business but you need to be mindful of your fans to some degree just like his predecessors and try to balance both aspects of the venture. This guy is quite frankly; out of touch, even from business standpoint he may leave things in shambles as time goes by.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Yep, he only gave me twice as many 10’s from 1st party studios this gen than last gen (IMO)

I’m REALLY hurting without Days Gone 2 and Killzone Infinite...