Everybody Shuffling At Sony Interactive Entertainment, Leadership Changes

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Sony Interactive Entertainment Announces New Engineering and Finance Leadership

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) today announces significant changes to its management structure to continue to drive growth and innovation for Sony Group Corporation and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Engineering Leadership Changes As previously announced, John (Tsuyoshi) Kodera, Deputy...
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  • The following appointments will join Jim Ryan, Representative Director, President, and CEO in the Board of Directors of SIE Tokyo. Masayasu Ito is appointed Representative Director and Deputy President (He was also Development Director of the original PSVR), Lin Tao is appointed Director and Deputy President, and Takeshi Shibata is appointed Director.
  • John (Tsuyoshi) Kodera who was previously SIE CEO and now Deputy Officer and was in charge of the creation of PSN will move to Sony Group and leave SIE
  • Hideaki Nishino is getting promoted to SVP, Platform Experience and will oversee Network Engineering and Operations, R&D, Design, Data Strategy and Operations in addition to having previously led managing Product and Platform development. He has previously led Platform Planning and Management and was involved with a lot of the major news from SIE in the last year including the new PSVR as can be seen here https://blog.playstation.com/author/hnishino/
  • Michael Pattison, currently VP, Global Third-Party Relations, is promoted to SVP, Platform Planning and Management. According to the press release he " has been instrumental in building our current strong portfolio of business partnerships on PS4 and PS5 and has been a strong advocate for the Indie development community."
 
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It looks to me like Sony is getting itself ready for a takeover. Seems to be trimming the fat and making itself a better proposition for potential buyers.
 
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TeKPhaN said:
fandomwire.com

Is Microsoft's $130 Billion Buyout Of Sony's PlayStation Division True?

Gaming enthusiasts worldwide were left gasping for air. This was particularly too hard a pill for hardcore PlayStation Loyalists to swallow.
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Well that article is 3 months old and rated the story "fake" which it almost surely is, I never even heard this rumor, plus Sony's worth is almost $80 Billion and the rumor according to this article is that MS paid $130 Billion for it, that's over 10% of what MS is worth.
 
JinCA said:
Well that article is 3 months old and rated the story "fake" which it almost surely is, I never even heard this rumor, plus Sony's worth is almost $80 Billion and the rumor according to this article is that MS paid $130 Billion for it, that's over 10% of what MS is worth.
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It was sarcastic 😶
 
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This seems to be very tongue-in-cheek, but I can't imagine this ever being possible due to antitrust laws if MS attempted the buyout. It'd have to be someone like Google/Amazon/Tencent, etc.
 
Pureshooter said:
This seems to be very tongue-in-cheek, but I can't imagine this ever being possible due to antitrust laws if MS attempted the buyout. It'd have to be someone like Google/Amazon/Tencent, etc.
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Yeah it's not even something anyone is considering I'm sure, buying Sony would be a huge undertaking and may not even be allowed by the Japanese government either not to mention the cost. MS isn't going to want to spend roughly 10% or more of it's total value on buying another company even it would be a smooth process.
 
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