Good to hear that they have the ability to self-identify weaknesses like this, but uh…Sony spent $3.6 BILLION for them, primarily due to their “expertise” in making live-service games, and helping to guide other studios and broad decisions about projects…and with expertise like this, clearly they were a great voice to listen to about things like, I don’t know, cancelling TLoU MP.
No one understood at the time why they spent so much, but PS/Jim Ryan were SO SURE of their incredible value…before having to completely gut the studio and take over basically all operations. So it’s extra wild to hear them admit aloud their ineptitude at what is one of the key pillars of any live-service game.
Thank gahd the Jim Ryan era is over. That dude screwed PS for basically this entire generation. Certainly not the sole person to point the finger at, but it seems clear we can at least put a sizable amount of the blame on his shoulders.
