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fireburn95 on 09 November 2015

http://shhd.org/2015/11/new-life/

 

New Life


On December 1st 2015, I will be celebrating 10 years at PlayStation. This has been the most rewarding period of my professional life. I have had personal highs and lows and the company has supported me throughout. The last few years in particular have brought so many professional highs, that it’s been hard to take it all in.

So it might surprise you to learn that I’m planning on leaving this wonderful company. Some will want to know why, and some will want to know what it means to developers and to the amazing Strategic Content team that I will be leaving behind. Let’s start with the latter.

Strategic Content will continue. There are no plans to change anything. Our approach to developers will also be unchanged. We have many talented people across the board who work tirelessly to support developers in bringing their videogames to PlayStation. Leaving this company has been the hardest decision of my career, because I get to work with the most dedicated, friendly and inspiring people in the business. So why am I doing this? Why leave when things are going so well?

I want to make games again. I stopped being a developer around a quarter of a century ago and have seen so many changes since then, with most of the exciting ones happening in the last few years. I want to be part of that. It’s that simple. The team at PlayStation, while sad to see me go, completely understands my desire. I am privileged to enjoy their support.

I’d love to keep in touch with you as I start my new life in December and as always, you can reach me on Twitter (@shahidkamal), where I will continue to be a friend of PlayStation, its partners and its fans.



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JRPGfan on 09 November 2015

thats well written.... right in the feels, all the best too him.



fireburn95 on 09 November 2015
JRPGfan said:
thats well written.... right in the feels, all the best too him.


His departure will be felt, he was the one who signed No Man's Sky :'{



Random_Matt on 09 November 2015

London then.



Gehirnkrampf on 09 November 2015

go and develop generic indie nongames! i hate you! :D



must-have-list for platforms i don't own yet:

WiiU: Donkey Kong

XBone: Dead Rising 3, Ryse

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fireburn95 on 09 November 2015
BasilZero said:
I remember him being the guy a lot of people blamed for lying about releasing something for the Vita.


I liked Shahid but his hyping was worse than Phil Spencer. I don't even know if we ever even got that 'non-indie game we will be playing for hours every day which isnt a port or a sequel'



tiffac on 09 November 2015

Well the Vita is dead, so he has to move on. :p



Lawlight on 09 November 2015

He wasn't very public the past couple of years. Did Sony tell him to not create fake hype?



outlawauron on 09 November 2015
fireburn95 said:
BasilZero said:
I remember him being the guy a lot of people blamed for lying about releasing something for the Vita.


I liked Shahid but his hyping was worse than Phil Spencer. I don't even know if we ever even got that 'non-indie game we will be playing for hours every day which isnt a port or a sequel'

Football Manager 2014.



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fireburn95 on 09 November 2015
outlawauron said:
fireburn95 said:


I liked Shahid but his hyping was worse than Phil Spencer. I don't even know if we ever even got that 'non-indie game we will be playing for hours every day which isnt a port or a sequel'

Football Manager 2014.


Can't have been that. He said it wasn't a sequel or a port.