Jim Ryan is retiring from Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive President Jim Ryan—the man who's led Sony's PlayStation division since 2019, is stepping down from his role as president and retiring from the company.
News of his departure first came via Bloomberg games reporter Jason Schreier, and was confirmed by Sony in a statement a few minutes later. According to Ryan, he's found it "increasingly difficult" to reconcile living in Europe while working in North America. "I will leave having been privileged to work on products that have touched millions of lives across the world."
Hiroki Totoki—Sony's president, COO, and CFO, will assume the role of "chairman" of Sony Interactive Entertainment beginning on October 1, 2023.
In April 2024, Totki will take on the role of interim CEO while maintaining his main role at Sony Corporation.
In a statement, Sony chairman and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida called Ryan an "inspirational leader" in his over 30 years with the company and praised his work overseeing the launch of PlayStation 5 during the COVID-19 pandemic. "That extraordinary achievement made by the entire SIE team has been steadily built on and PlayStation 5 is on track to become SIE's most successful console yet," he added.
As former Game Developer editor Alex Wawro noted in 2019, Ryan has been "kicking around" the Sony organizational chart for 30 years. Before becoming president and CEO, he was deputy president following the departure of John Kodera.
Before he was in that position, he had at one point served as president of the division known as Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
Ryan stepped into the leadership role at PlayStation at the tail end of the successful run of the PlayStation 4 and right before the launch of the PlayStation 5. That launch would obviously become
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