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Ugh, even this man's retirement announcement comes off like a bland, lifeless corporate statement no one will remember any of in five minutes. Which I guess is what is exactly what it is, but still it's the perfect capstone on what has been a remarkably soulless, technocratic tenure. Look I don't mean this as a slant against the PlayStation brand per se (which honestly remains my favorite out of the three big console brands for its first-party library), but sometimes I have suspected that Jim Ryan might actually be a new form of A.I. that Sony has secretly been working on.

What I hope this development yields above all is more resources and freedom for their studios to make the games that they actually want to make, not just the ones that theoretically stand to make the most money.