Kenichiro Yoshida, who has led Sony since 2018, will be succeeded as chief executive by the company’s chief financial officer.
PlayStation announced via a blog post that it was going to start offering players on PC bonus in-game items and rewards if they chose to create and login with a PSN
Sony has cut Bend Studio contractors with some being let go after February 14, due to the cancelation of the studio's live service project.
Sony’s three-sentence press release confirmed similar death dates for its blank MiniDisc, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes. The company also made it clear that you shouldn’t expect any “successor models” to these formats from them. “We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our many customers for their patronage to date,” Sony wrote last week.
Writers-creators Mauricio Katz and Pedro Peirano are getting into business with Sony Pictures Television, with a multi-year overall deal.
Sony Block Solutions Labs is launching Soneium Conquest as a way to onboard creators, developers, and newcomers to its Soneium blockchain.
The switch-up at the top is only the eighth in the 78-year history of Sony, which was founded as an electronics shop in Tokyo in the wake of World War II. Before it lost its lead in recent decades, Sony was the first name in consumer electronics, churning out handfuls of iconic inventions like the Sony Walkman, which it introduced in 1979.
PlayStation announced that it will be offering some in-game rewards for those who play its games on PC while logged in to a PSN account. PlayStation also clarified that a PSN account will become optional for select titles on PC, which is a change from previous mandatory PSN account requirements on PC.
You’ll still have access to monthly PS4 games you’ve already redeemed, but Sony is shifting its focus more fully to PS5.
Sony is once again shaking up its leadership ranks. Effective April 1, Hideaki Nishino will be president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). Nishino was appointed CEO of the division's Platform Business Group last year.