Sony Interactive Entertainment Chairman Shawn Layden Announces Departure - News
by Adam Cartwright , posted on 04 November 2019 / 2,642 Views
PlayStation have revealed that Shawn Layden, their current chairman and former CEO of their American branch, will be stepping down from his role within the company.
It is with great emotion that we announce that Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden will be departing SIE. His visionary leadership will be greatly missed. We wish him success in future endeavors and are deeply grateful for his years of service. Thanks for everything, Shawn!
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 30, 2019
Shawn had been with the company since 1987 starting in their communications department in Tokyo, before working his way through various positions. He had recently become known for his appearances at press conferences teasing upcoming remakes with his t-shirts (such as Crash Bandicoot and MediEvil), but equally he was at the centre of an increasing level of censorship at PlayStation and initial resistance to cross-play agreements with other console manufacturers.
A successor to Layden was not announced.
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...... who?
come back pls Kaz Hirai
Under his leadership Sony implemented their anti-Japanese developer censorship polices, so good riddance.
He didn't do anything. "CHairman of Worldwide Studios was a completely new position made up just for him because the cororate restructuring got rid of his old job. He had nothing to do with that stuff and basically held a meaningless title.
He wasn't that great, couldn't get E3 going for the past couple of years and added some really bad business practices.
Shame he went out on a sour note. Crossplay and anti censorship is the way of the future.
Not sure about that. The way I see it Sony is censoring niche titles and not many people care about those. I've personally boycotted them because of that, but I doubt many other people will do so.
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