JIm Ryan Retiring in March 2024

[the-pi-guy]

Jaicee said:

LurkerJ said:

I hear this all the time, can you clarify what type of games you're referring to? What studios are being told not to work on the games they want to make?

Like all the Japanese ones, for example, needless to say. We know this. Sony's also reportedly gotten a rep with independent publishers of late for being tough to deal with, although, in all fairness, they have taken some concrete steps to repair the latter relationship recently. I don't know if that's really all Jim Ryan's personal doing by any means, but it sure seems like a logical match for his public persona and happens to overlap with his tenure. It's just the impression I get as an outsider, and apparently one that most other people get too.

Closing a studio and indies not getting as much support isn't the same as them being forced to make certain kinds of games.