Sony's No Good, Very Bad Week: Systems Hack, Jim Ryan Retirement, Live Service Pivot Woes
0It's been a week for Sony Interactive Entertainment and their parent company, Sony. First, we get a nice call back to the great 2011 PSN Hack and Outage, something that forced me to need a new SSN. Oh, fun times. This time around, seems to be much more shallow if true. No official updated word from Sony, nothing from the hackers, just users online saying their account are acting weird.
On top of a potential loss of private customer identifiable data and financial data, it seems Jim Ryan has decided to throw in the towel for Team Sony. He will be officially retiring come 2024. This came as a surprise to everyone except perhaps the uppers at Sony, those privileged enough to sit on their board. A new structure is on the way and no true successor for Jim Ryan has been named, just an interim CEO come April in the form of Hiroki Totoki.
Following up this surprising news, it seems all is not well in the world of Sony's live service games dreams. Internal studio closures, games being rebooted that have been in development, and most of their major single player studios being forced to work on live service versions of their single player worlds. Will Sony let Guerilla Games or Naughty Dog or Insomniac continue their existence if an expensive live service game in their universes flops as hard as Anthem did for BioWare? Who knows. They already shutter studios when games aren't even fully revealed and trim back studios. But don't worry, according to Jim Ryan when speaking in an Q&A with Fidelity, Bungie's $3.6 billion acquisition is worth more money than the Activision-Blizzard-King acquisition by Microsoft, Bungie is just going to continue to print infinite money for them. No need to worry about cannibalizing your own user base. Seems like internally and externally, people are worried about this massive live service pivot to being 60% of SIE's game products.
Yeah, it's definitely been a week for Sony.
Enjoy the Cyberpunk 2077 2.0/Phantom Liberty in the background. It's unused footage from my review. Crashes cut out, just not great content seeing my computer desktop and 500 'send report' prompts.
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