After two leaders have left Sony (and it doesn’t matter if they retired or departed, leaving is the key point), something might be happening there.

The big news of October 1 was that Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios’ chairman Shawn Layden has left the company. A day after, Atsushi Morita, the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia, has retired due to age. Sure, it might be happening because of the usual position changes at the beginning of the first and second half of the fiscal years, but with Sony, something else might be happening.

GameDaily reports that PlayStation‘s internal team might be suffering from upheaval and a power struggle, which is why Layden might have been kicked out of the company, and the person behind his removal might be none other than Jim Ryan, the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment. (He’s the same person who called backwards compatibility stupid two years ago at E3…) Ryan quickly climbed the corporate ladder, growing above Layden, even though the latter has spent three decades at Sony. (We have to question how much of it is true, though – GameDaily had no quotes about it.)

The site added that Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide (the umbrella organization that covers all regions) caused confusion, as the different regions have different marketing strategies and business decisions. It might impact the PlayStation 5 (which will be discussed separately along with the other next-gen console), as even the first-party developers don’t know much about it, even though its launch is a year away. „This is the least amount of clarity we’ve ever had on a new console this close to transition. I believe that the [global restructuring] is exponentially exacerbating the already difficult process of transitioning to a new generation. And now we’re getting nervous. Very nervous,” an anonymous third-party developer said.

That sounds catastrophic.

Source: WCCFTech

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