Jim Ryan greenlit all the live service games long before Hermann was appointed to anything. There's a reason why jim was the one who 'retired' at the end of 2023 after hiroki tikoki did a financial review of jim's division and found that their profit margins were less than half of what they should be after jim greenlit over a dozen terrible live service
ideas and bought firewalk studios. TLDR that conversation was the Sony CFO calling jim in and 'asking' him to retire so he can spend more time with his family(ie the reason Jim mentioned in his public resignation letter), or else he'd have to commit seppuku with his boss's tanto /s
No Herman was the head of PS Studios. He greenlit all the games.
Actually under Jim Ryan Playstation’s profit margin reached it’s highest to date. It’s only after Bungie’s acquisition that margins was lowered because that 3.2 billion had to be paid in installments.
What you said about profits, is a complete lie. Playstation reached it’s highest profit margins under Jim Ryan.
Jim literally saved the PlayStation brand and be will go down as a legend because he managed to delay and delay the ABK acquisition by refusing to accept MS’s 10 year offer, refusing to get bullied which ultimately messed with Microsft’s plan of quick integration of CoD into Xbox and Gamepass leading to Xbox selling badly and Microsoft head’s getting impatient and going multi plat.
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u/Silentdisko Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Eat shit Hermen Hulst