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04.02 / 17:27

CEO Sony An all-digital PS6 doesn't seem possible, according to ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden: 'I think it would be hard for them to go fully disc-less'

The PlayStation 6 is likely years away, and according to former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios CEO, Shawn Layden, players shouldn't expect a disc-less console.

03.02 / 15:23

Platform Party UPS Sony Nintendo Ex-Sony Boss Says Xbox Can Find Multiplatform Software Success, Just Like SEGA | Push Square

03.02 / 12:39

Platform Strategy Racing Xbox bringing its exclusives to PS5 has a precedent set by Sega, but "it makes the conversation harder to create the FOMO," says former PlayStation boss

13.01 / 22:25

RPG Fallout Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

06.01 / 18:29

Warcraft Fallout Former Starfield lead says "people are fatigued" with huge games, and "I'm sorry" because "part of what happened is the success of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4"

06.01 / 00:15

Strategy CEO Consoles Here to Stay, PS5 to Be Supported into Next-Gen, Says PlayStation CEO | Push Square

07.12 / 02:02

UPS Ex-PlayStation Boss Thinks the Days of Consoles Are Numbered | Push Square

07.12 / 02:01

Sony Music Nintendo Final Fantasy 7 Was Made for PlayStation Thanks to Sony Music and Booze | Push Square

05.12 / 18:23

UPS Ex-PlayStation boss says hardware innovation 'is starting to plateau' and that 'you're not going to see another PS1 to PS2 jump in performance'

04.12 / 17:47

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says 100-hour games are a "mismatch" to today's reality: "I haven't even opened Red Dead Redemption 2, because I don't have 90 hours"

04.12 / 17:47

UPS Former PlayStation boss says exploding AAA budgets squeeze out creativity as the "finance guys" hunt for their own GTA and find a "lot of copycats, a lot of sequels"

04.12 / 16:37

PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’

07.11 / 18:37

Wii Digital Nintendo Nintendo Switch 2 will avoid the fate of Wii U | Opinion

30.10 / 16:19

PlayStation 5 Tencent Nintendo Ex-PlayStation boss says platform holders must do more to restore the ‘double-A’ games category

30.10 / 14:07

Meet the Singapore trade association balancing support for indies with attracting overseas firms

28.10 / 14:41

Former PlayStation US boss says Japan Studio closure was ‘sad’ but not surprising

25.10 / 14:41

CEO Sony Former PlayStation boss says Japan Studio's closure "wasn't necessarily" surprising: "When a studio hasn't had a hit for a while, then they forget how that feels"

24.10 / 14:27

Gamescom Asia breaks attendance record with over 40,000 visitors

21.10 / 16:11

Is AA dead? | Microcast

18.10 / 22:33

UPS Marvell Sony Sony's PC ports are speeding up: Spider-Man 2 arrives on PC in January 2025

18.10 / 10:33

CEO Sony Solo dev behind hit city builder says to put "experimentation and art over profit" in response to ex-PlayStation CEO saying there's a "collapse of creativity" in games

17.10 / 21:39

UPS Sony Ex-PlayStation Exec Shawn Layden Says There's Been a 'Collapse' in Gaming Creativity | Push Square

17.10 / 20:53

Digital Sony Former Sony exec says focusing on high-budget blockbusters is 'a death sentence' for the games industry

17.10 / 20:11

Digital Sony Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden says relying on blockbuster games is "a death sentence"

17.10 / 15:51

PlayStation 5 Former PlayStation exec says console arms race has plateaued

17.10 / 15:49

Sony Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"

17.10 / 15:49

CEO Sony Ex-PlayStation head says the AA middle ground between GTA and indies is "gone," and relying on blockbusters to "get us through" is "a death sentence"

17.10 / 07:49

Shawn Layden: "AA is gone and that's a threat to the ecosystem going forward"

14.10 / 21:10

What to expect from this week’s Gamescom Asia

26.09 / 17:11

Sony Former Sony head responds to those complaining about Ghost of Yotei's female protagonist: "If you don't like it, don't buy it"

26.09 / 08:31

PS5's Ghost of Yotei Triggers Social Media, Ex-Sony Exec Says 'If You Don't Like It, Don't Buy It' | Push Square

03.09 / 14:57

Capcom announces its full line-up for Gamescom Asia

12.07 / 19:33

Capcom, Shawn Layden confirmed for Gamescom Asia 2024

12.07 / 14:09

Gamescom Asia announces first exhibitors and speakers

24.06 / 23:33

Microsoft Xbox tech leaders to close our GI Sprint series next week

24.06 / 10:53

Platform Wii Sony AMD War PlayStation and Xbox Technical Differences Are Negligible Nowadays, And A Single Platform Would Make Games Better

21.06 / 17:46

Platform Wii Sony War Former PlayStation head says we need to "get this platform war thing out of the way" and "get down to one standard home console"

20.06 / 12:29

Platform UPS Are games consoles facing extinction?

18.06 / 13:05

UPS Shawn Layden's advice on making games faster and cheaper

18.06 / 10:11

Shawn Layden: 'The games industry needs to show some patience'

17.06 / 14:49

GI Sprint kicks off tomorrow, full speaker line-up details

05.06 / 17:19

Platform Mobile GamesIndustry.biz heads to IGN Live to discuss the future of games platforms

16.05 / 15:31

First speakers announced for next month’s GI Sprint editorial series

14.03 / 19:07

Platform UPS Marvell CEO Sony "I see consolidation to be the enemy of creativity," says former PlayStation chief Shawn Layden, as Jim Ryan says he was "thrilled" to sign Microsoft's Call of Duty deal

11.03 / 19:21

Sony Former PlayStation chairman sees exclusivity as 'Achilles' heel' of industry, urges companies to 'get that funnel wider'

11.03 / 17:03

Sony PS4 PS5 Former PlayStation Exec Discusses Exclusivity in New Interview

11.03 / 14:37

War Former PlayStation boss calls exclusivity the industry's 'Achilles' heel … Helldivers 2 has shown that'

11.03 / 11:43

PS5 Exclusivity is the game industry's "Achilles' heel", says former PlayStation boss

10.03 / 17:39

PC Xbox Series X Microsoft Sony PS5 Former PlayStation Boss Believes Exclusivity Has Become AAA Development’s “Achilles’ Heel” Due to Ballooning Budgets

10.03 / 10:48

Platform Party Sony Nintendo Exclusivity Is the Achilles' Heel of Huge Blockbusters, Says Former PlayStation Exec | Push Square

10.03 / 00:58

PS5 Ex-PlayStation Boss Criticizes Exclusivity

09.03 / 19:13

PC Tencent Former PlayStation exec calls exclusivity the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of blockbuster games

09.03 / 02:15

Platform UPS PlayStation Ex-Exec Wants More AA Games, Exclusivity “Achilles’ Heel” with $200M+ Budgets

22.02 / 13:01

PS4 PS5 Exiting PS CEO Jim Ryan Grateful He Didn’t Work “In A Boring Industry”

19.02 / 17:45

Sony Sony stock loses $10 billion in value as the company lowers PS5 sales predictions

05.01 / 10:02

UPS Sony Former Sony Head Shawn Layden: Expect More Talk About Unsustainable Budgets This Year

03.01 / 16:08

Marvell CEO Sony Former PlayStation head thinks game budgets will be a hot topic in 2024

27.10 / 16:13

Party Sony Games industry mergers and acquisitions expected to ‘increase steadily over the next year’

26.10 / 10:57

Platform Party Digital Sony Former PlayStation boss says it’s ‘criminal’ the industry isn’t doing more to preserve games

26.10 / 06:39

UPS Sony Rumor: Sony’s Game Studios Unhappy With Live Service Plans, Connie Booth Fired In Aftermath

25.10 / 13:43

PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X Microsoft Sony Former PlayStation Boss Sounds The Alarm After Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard

25.10 / 10:51

Party Microsoft PlayStation vet Layden warns of impact of consolidation

02.10 / 22:37

Twitter 9 years later, former PlayStation boss gives the PSP a long-overdue funeral

28.09 / 23:17

UPS Sony PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is retiring in 2024

28.09 / 08:07

UPS Sony PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is retiring in 2024

08.09 / 16:47

Platform Mobile Stadia UPS Amazon Google Apple The non-endemics trying to break into games | This Week In Business

08.09 / 10:19

Platform Mobile Stadia UPS Google Google now testing Playables gaming feature on YouTube

05.09 / 13:15

Mobile UPS Amazon Google Apple Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss

05.09 / 09:29

Microsoft CEO Sony Nintendo Former PlayStation boss says that video game acquisitions “can be an enemy of creativity”

05.09 / 09:17

Amazon Google Apple Music PlayStation vet Layden warns of tech companies disrupting games

05.09 / 02:27

Microsoft Amazon Google Sony Apple Nintendo Former PlayStation Executive Believes Non-Gaming Tech Companies are “Barbarians at the Gates”

04.09 / 18:49

Platform Amazon Google Sony Apple Music Nintendo Former PlayStation boss views Apple and Amazon as big threats to the games industry

04.09 / 16:05

UPS Amazon Google Sony Music Shawn Layden issues warning about non-endemics breaking into games

23.08 / 12:35

Booking Tencent Xbox, Curve, Tencent and more join GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX

17.08 / 14:39

UPS CEO Booking Check out the full speaker schedule for the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX

15.08 / 14:21

Platform Digital Booking Tencent Find out how games get surfaced on Steam at the GI Investment Summit at PAX

14.08 / 14:25

Platform Booking Tencent Nintendo Nintendo, Limited Run and Kepler join the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX

09.08 / 13:49

Simulation CEO Booking Tencent Xbox’s Jen MacLean to keynote PAX Investment Summit

01.08 / 14:23

Platform CEO Booking Tencent Hiro Capital, Secret Mode and more join GI Investment Summit at PAX

26.07 / 15:27

Platform CEO Booking Tencent London Venture Partners, Square Enix, TinyBuild, Valve and more join GI Investment Summit at PAX