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Why former PlayStation boss Jack Tretton is trying to buy a billion dollar game company
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Bryank75
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Zeroing
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Yep he is like one of those instagramers who takes lots of photos with celebrities!
Guy is photogenic he was born to be photographed!!! Lol
DeepEnigma
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I’ve seen a few shops in my day, and I believe this one is indeed photoshopped.I did one...
Bryank75
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Shhhh... some of the Xbox guys were about to submit it as evidence of attempted murder!
mansoor1980
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DeepEnigma
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kingpotato
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Ohh myyy gawwwddd
DeepEnigma
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John Wick
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I hate Jimbo too. He's just a suit with no personality. All three were better than him.
John Wick
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Sony as whole company was out of touch back then due to the Japanese leadership. It took Kaz, Tretton and the crew to get Sony on the right track. They set things in motion and Jimbo inherited a Sony in a healthy state.
Swipeyowifelike
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So the suit that has a shit eating "im one of you" grin while they businessman is better than businessman being true businessman?
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GHound
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Someone needs to photoshop a gun into Shu's hand here...
I'm curious what company he's trying to get a hold of.
Zeroing
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this is fake right!?!Ohh myyy gawwwddd
Interfectum
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kingpotato
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Press Conference Video Game CEOs Take Action on Climate Change
Press conference moderated by Satya Tripathi, Assistant Secretary-General United Nations Environment and Head of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) New York with Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands; Krista Mikkonen, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of Finland...
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Zeroing
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I’m pretty sure somehow someone on twitter will use that photo as proof they are an “insider” and MS is buying Sony or god knows what other crazy rumor will come up.No
Press Conference Video Game CEOs Take Action on Climate Change
Press conference moderated by Satya Tripathi, Assistant Secretary-General United Nations Environment and Head of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) New York with Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands; Krista Mikkonen, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of Finland...
John Wick
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Wtf are you babbling about? When Jimbo took over all the hardwork had already been done. Kaz took Sony out of the red and into the black. Jimbo never inherited a shit show.
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Bryank75
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Ohh myyy gawwwddd
My grandmother used to call people like them 'fat-heads'...
I'm curious what company he's trying to get a hold of.
Thats awesome!
Swipeyowifelike
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Jimbo was part of the hard work. Why do people think one monkey runs a corporate show.
nikolino840
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that creates room for a new Zynga or a new Activision to pop up
Ok....and i bet that he will publish games only on PlayStation..
Ok....and i bet that he will publish games only on PlayStation..
AllBizness
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PS3 lost to 360 because of this guy
anthony2690
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As you guys seem real good at finding picture off Phil Spencer, can someone find the one with Sakaguchi edited to show them doing Lost Odyssey 2 check, that one always cracked me up!
DeepEnigma
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People forget that he helped shape UK/EU as the juggernaut for PS that it is today.
Even if he looks like someone's drunk uncle.
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CamHostage
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So funny that people love Jack Tretton, considering he's the guy who fucked up the PS3 reveal E3* with the interview afterwards saying, "It's definitely all real..."
(*Or, you could say he further fucked it, given that Sony at large put those teasers together, knowing fairly well what it would do to gamers' expectations as they weighed between buying a new Xbox 360 or waiting for PS3...)
This was the first time most people had ever seen Jack Tretton, and may not have been used to interviews at this level of public access yet. Tretton was only a VP of Marketing at the time (he would be elevated to President the year after.) Also, he was kind of mixing up titles in this interview. (He kept referring back to Ted, as in Ted Price of Insomniac, and Insomniac's game was "real" even if it evolved a lot in the final product; Killzone 2 and MotorStorm and other demos were obviously not "real gameplay"... Guerrilla itself that same week went to the press in order to make it clear that the Killzone trailer was target render footage, so how there was confusion at any point of the line in Sony Corp is unclear still.)
Still, he was the guy who went out there to speak for Sony, saying that the PS3 games reveals at E3 2005 were not fake.
Somehow, he gained back the trust. Or, at least, he gained popularity once he did become President (despite some other ugly E3 moments; Tretton also had to be the one to open an E3 with an apology after the severe crash and downtime of PlayStation Network.) It was an interesting time for Sony in his reign of 2006 to 2014, a million stories good and bad could be told.
(*Or, you could say he further fucked it, given that Sony at large put those teasers together, knowing fairly well what it would do to gamers' expectations as they weighed between buying a new Xbox 360 or waiting for PS3...)
This was the first time most people had ever seen Jack Tretton, and may not have been used to interviews at this level of public access yet. Tretton was only a VP of Marketing at the time (he would be elevated to President the year after.) Also, he was kind of mixing up titles in this interview. (He kept referring back to Ted, as in Ted Price of Insomniac, and Insomniac's game was "real" even if it evolved a lot in the final product; Killzone 2 and MotorStorm and other demos were obviously not "real gameplay"... Guerrilla itself that same week went to the press in order to make it clear that the Killzone trailer was target render footage, so how there was confusion at any point of the line in Sony Corp is unclear still.)
Still, he was the guy who went out there to speak for Sony, saying that the PS3 games reveals at E3 2005 were not fake.
Somehow, he gained back the trust. Or, at least, he gained popularity once he did become President (despite some other ugly E3 moments; Tretton also had to be the one to open an E3 with an apology after the severe crash and downtime of PlayStation Network.) It was an interesting time for Sony in his reign of 2006 to 2014, a million stories good and bad could be told.
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Swipeyowifelike
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An accurate lesson on the controversy of the "real-time" gameplay trailers that were so damaging the devs had to run damage control. All thanks to the man Tretton, who couldn't even keep which team worked on which game. A true businessman that is more about the art.