Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Andrew House steps down

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Sony Interactive Entertainment leadership is seeing some changes, with president and global CEO Andrew House stepping down.


Sony announced the news in a press release this morning, saying that John “Tsuyoshi” Kodera, the current deputy president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, will assume Andrew House’s former responsibilities.

Andrew House is also stepping down from his executive vice president role of Sony Corporation, but will remain a chairman for the remainder of this year to ensure a smooth transition, the company said.

“PlayStation has been a huge part of my life for more than 20 years but with the business having achieved record-breaking success, now seemed to be the right time for me to pursue new challenges,” said House.


“When I passed the baton of leadership for Sony Computer Entertainment to Andrew House in 2011, I was confident that I was leaving the PlayStation business in the best possible hands, and so it has proved,” said Sony president and CEO Kazuo Hirai.

“I’m extremely grateful to Andy for the great contribution he has made to evolving the PlayStation business, and firmly positioning it as one of the drivers of our future growth.”

Andrew House spent 27 years at Sony at various roles throughout his career. He was there before the launch of the first PlayStation, and for every console launch since. Before being appointed as a Sony Interactive Entertainment’s CEO in 2011, House served as SCE Europe’s president and CEO.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2017/10/03/sony-interactive-entertainment-ceo-andrew-house-steps-down/

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DecyPosted:

ODST
Decy
RepBandit Time to move on to a challenge. Is he going to move to atari? LoL. Crazy people make a bunch of money and love change when if i was in that position I wouldn't move a muscle.
But on the other hand is PlayStation going to fail?


In my opinion he was the reason for playstation already failing he did play a big part in stopping the cross-play between platforms.. Gotta remember this is the guy who also said when asked about backward compatibility "Why would anyone want to play those old games" In my opinion Sony are better off without him...


You do know that Microsoft said no to crossplay last generation right? Sony is only doing the same back to them now that PS4s outsell Xbones 3-1


Could you really imagine Cross Play on last gen? i knew they offered but really it would be so potato. + they will have to do it at somepoint because they aint gonna win competing against all these consoles that are already cross-play.

XboxPosted:

Good now hopefully someone will take his position and get the ball rolling on this whole cross play proposition

MickersPosted:

Always want more, and thats how they get into these high level positions, desire.

ODSTPosted:

Decy
RepBandit Time to move on to a challenge. Is he going to move to atari? LoL. Crazy people make a bunch of money and love change when if i was in that position I wouldn't move a muscle.
But on the other hand is PlayStation going to fail?


In my opinion he was the reason for playstation already failing he did play a big part in stopping the cross-play between platforms.. Gotta remember this is the guy who also said when asked about backward compatibility "Why would anyone want to play those old games" In my opinion Sony are better off without him...


You do know that Microsoft said no to crossplay last generation right? Sony is only doing the same back to them now that PS4s outsell Xbones 3-1

MusketPosted:

Wonder what new challenges hes talking about, maybe making new games?

RepBanditPosted:

Decy
RepBandit Time to move on to a challenge. Is he going to move to atari? LoL. Crazy people make a bunch of money and love change when if i was in that position I wouldn't move a muscle.
But on the other hand is PlayStation going to fail?


In my opinion he was the reason for playstation already failing he did play a big part in stopping the cross-play between platforms.. Gotta remember this is the guy who also said when asked about backward compatibility "Why would anyone want to play those old games" In my opinion Sony are better off without him...


Well when you say it like that, hopefully John will bring bc to playstation. That would be a awesome platform for PS to grow

DecyPosted:

-Silky Well maybe Sony might actually get their head together and agree with cross-play.


You can only hope... Would benefit them tho

Kv1Posted:

Say bye to all the exclusive what will be coming up, Nah hopefully they'll get some like Larry Hryb who wants the same across all platforms

SilkyPosted:

Well maybe Sony might actually get their head together and agree with cross-play.

sznPosted:

He's probably a millionaire now. He can do what he pleases.