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SCE & SNE merge to Sony Interactive Entertainment, HQ moving from Tokyo to California
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Please say SCE presents will still be in front of Uncharted 4
I think he comes across well. Definitely prefer him to Shawn Layden and Adam Boyes; still no Jack Tretton though.
Murder. She Wrote
Member
I'm sure this is a great move, but I'll miss seeing "Sony Computer Entertainment Presents" at the beginning of a game trailer. It was just so classy.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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So... What's the big deal about this besides a name change and moving operations? What does this mean for Japan? What will they do now?
Off-Kilter
Banned
My thoughts as well. Gonna take a while to get over that
SCEJ offices will become a big Pachinko Saloon.
SolarPowered
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Shu gotta be kidding me.
Just give me a day's ban. I deserve it
Primethius
Banned
Off-Kilter
Banned
UC4 will still have the SCE opener guys.
The game will almost certainly go gold before April 1st, when the name change is enacted
The game will almost certainly go gold before April 1st, when the name change is enacted
What a sendoff
Steverulez
Member
This sounds like it could be a good move. I think they do a great job of a worldwide presence but some things they do (like their selection of retail titles for localised titles, sales across regions, multiple certification for patches/games etc) seems like it could do with some work and perhaps centralising stuff in NA could fix that?
TimeEffect
Member
Please god, faster softer improvements. Like, yesterday.
RIP SCE. Too iconic.
RIP SCE. Too iconic.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
SCEJ is dead, The Last Guardian is dead.
What a shame.
What a shame.
Kidding, but I wonder what will happen to Sony Japan Studios....
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
end of an era
JuanLatino
Member
why should something happen to them? Polyphoni Digital and Japan Studios will continue their work in Japan as first party studios from Sony.
Off-Kilter
Banned
faster and softer!?
SolidSnakex
Member
Nothing. Looking around on Twitter it seems like the thing most employees are worried about is remembering to type SIE instead of SCE.
amstradcpc
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Interactive reminds me of QTEs.A pity the word computer is out, so retro and meaningful, even romantic for all the people that lived the 80s computer revolution...
Kutaragi wouldnt have liked it.
Kutaragi wouldnt have liked it.
Going forward PlayStation will be an American brand.
That's inevitable if HQ is in San Mateo.
The California branch is being declared the headquarters with the Tokyo branch becoming a regional branch.
Executives at Sony Japan will have offices in the Western branch so they can make more frequent and longer stays at the US HQ as needed.
The Mad Draklor
Member
I think this part of the PR should answer your questions:
SIE will be headquartered in San Mateo, California, the United States, while also establishing key global business operations in Tokyo and London, beginning Friday, April 1, 2016.
SoundofSilence
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He reports to Kaz Hirai.
This mostly just concerns the BU structure, and Leadership. Development studios will pretty much remain the same.
This worries me - what made the PS systems stand out from MS was their Japanese focus. We have enough game vendors out there with a focus on the west. I hope this doesn't affect SCE's Japan Studio or the number of 3rd party Japanese games the console gets...
Could be a good thing, but it seems like so often these kind of re-alignments really alter things quite a bit, sometimes for the worse. From what I can tell, this seems to make a lot of sense, at least on paper. Hopefully it addresses many of their issues while not creating new ones.
DannyDanger
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Same here... hopefully we're wrong
SolidSnakex
Member
None of that should change. For example, Brad Douglas (the guy Ken Imaizumi credited with getting the Kojima deal done) has said that his job isn't changing.
GIANKRATOS
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protomouse
Member
"PlayStation 4, the interactive entertainment system from Sony"
Shifting over to the US makes sense.
Shifting over to the US makes sense.
i3allistic
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Does this mean PS5 OS will be made in America!!!
Edit: misread your post
Make it look like one big I within the diamond instead of two Cs.
JordanN
Banned
Playstation = global brand. It gets more Japanese games/support than Xbox because the Playstation always did better in Japan's market.
Simply moving headquarters wont change the fact most of the audience for those games are still on Playstation.
Edit: Ironically, Microsoft were the ones who put a lot of focus on gaining Japan's support with their first 2 consoles and now look where it got them.
RIP
Thats the big news because i fucking love that logo!
family_guy
Member
The most important question.
I don't see why that would change. The ps4 is a pretty diverse system and I doubt that changes in the future. The people and relationships are still in place
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
This is a good thing. A very good thing. Sega would still be in the console business had they let the US arm have more (or total) control.
brickarts295
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I think I see it another way, start it with the new SIE opener with U4.
What great start.
Until Dawn and Uncharted NDC would be the last retail exclusive with the SCE opener.
Spaced Harrier
Member
I really hope they keep "Sony Computer Entertainment Presents" it's iconic.
And rarely for something from the 90s it's classy.
Change everything else but not that.
And rarely for something from the 90s it's classy.
Change everything else but not that.
They might keep the old logo and just change the "Computer" part into "Interactive" like this:
The Last One
Member
I mean, they just made a deal with Kojima Productions.