Shawn Layden: «I didn’t have the vision or the energy to try to, you know, take it to this this new area of live-service gaming so.»
There were some very mixed opinions amongst fans about former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, with harsh criticism often heard of his explicit approach to so-called live service titles. These are rarely what gamers themselves want, and are often maliciously described as being as much online store as they are games.
Ryan’s strategy took a toll on Sony’s traditional single-player titles and has led to alarmingly empty first party release lists in recent years, while the live service ventures seem to be failing badly or being canceled. One person who was not a fan of this is the former and vastly more popular PlayStation boss Shawn Layden (responsible for almost the entire PlayStation 4 era and the acquisition of Insomniac, among other things), who left Sony in 2019.
