PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is retiring in 2024

thesixthaxis.com:

Jim Ryan, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has announced that he will retire in March 2024, bringing to a close an almost thirty year career with the PlayStation business, in which he has held a variety of senior positions at the company.

In the announcement, Jim Ryan said, “After 30 years, I have made the decision to retire from SIE in March 2024. I’ve relished the opportunity to have a job I love in a very special company, working with great people and incredible partners. But I’ve found it increasingly difficult to reconcile living in Europe and working in North America. I will leave having been privileged to work on products that have touched millions of lives across the world; PlayStation will always be part of my life, and I feel more optimistic than ever about the future of SIE. I want to thank [Kenichiro] Yoshida-san for placing so much trust in me and being an incredibly sensitive and supportive leader.”

Ryan has been a strong leader of PlayStation since 2019, having been deputy president to John Kodera for a year prior, who was a more temporary appointment after Andrew House stepped down in late 2017. Ryan was quick to shuffle the deck of the PlayStation leadership that year, with Guerrilla Games founder Herman Hulst stepping up to head of PlayStation Studios, though this was arguably forced upon him with Shawn Layden’s seemingly sudden decision to leave the company.

Since then, the PlayStation business has continued to boom. Ryan led them through the launch of PlayStation 5 in 2020 amidst the pandemic lockdowns, they’ve dealt with the semiconductor supply shortages of the following years, and PlayStation Studios has supplied a fairly steady stream of big budget AAA games.

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