Today marks a special day in the long history of PlayStation with the official formation of Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE). As you may remember from my last note, this new organization will combine the strengths of both Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Sony Network Entertainment LLC into one global interactive entertainment powerhouse.
So what does this day mean for you, the gamer? If I’m honest, probably not a whole lot — at least not in the short term. But in the long run, it will mean everything. The formation of SIE will allow us to forge a unified PlayStation organization that can adapt more quickly to meet the needs of the gaming community, innovate with digital services like PlayStation Vue and PlayStation Now, and — above all else — drive consistent and constant innovation in the dynamic medium of videogames. You’re already seeing the early fruits of that effort with PlayStation VR, and the work will continue across a number of fronts.
Our full integration won’t happen overnight. But the work is well underway and I’m delighted to report that we are tracking ahead of schedule.
In addition to my role as President of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, I’m also honored to be taking on additional responsibilities supporting our excellent first party game development teams as Chairman of Worldwide Studios. Working with the inimitable Shu Yoshida, leaders like Scott Rohde, Michael Denny, and Allan Becker, I am committed to building upon our strong heritage to deliver ever more innovative and epic titles. That includes Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End from Naughty Dog in just a few weeks, and extending through Horizon Zero Dawn from Guerrilla Games, The Last Guardian from Japan Studio and genDESIGN, and beyond — and that doesn’t even include the powerful line up of VR titles we are developing worldwide.
As Blogcast listeners may already know, I have history with Worldwide Studios — in fact my PlayStation career began in game development in Japan and latterly Europe. I have enormous respect, and limitless devotion, for the creators, artists, and engineers within our Worldwide Studios, and I’m eager to be back in the business of helping developers realize their dreams.
And to our faithful and discerning PlayStation community, I thank you for your dedication, your enthusiasm, and your trust as we embark on a new journey as Sony Interactive Entertainment.
The future is surely bright.
Love it
Why not focus on making games cross compatable? I’d love to enjoy playing with PC gamers and XB1 users
Well Shawn i’m gonna be totally honest with you, i’m a long time PlayStation fan, i grew up with your consoles and i really liked the ps3 era sony, the one that released so many quality first party games. Now this generation we have seen the closing of Zipper,BigBig Studios,Liverpool and now Evolution Studios there must be reasons why those studios were closed but to me Motorstorm is the best off road racing game i have ever played and i would love to see a new game coming to the ps4 so please keep that in mind.
bla bla bla… and now whe **** you with ps4.5
I would really Love to see a new SOCOM of some sort. I have been playing playstation since the Playstation one. That series is my all time favorite. Hate to see it gone..
does this mean you will upgrade our playstation account security with more up to date secure security features to make playstation account safer ?
Wow! I am absolutely amazed @ all the people who have fallen for the APRIL FOOLS JOKE!!!!!
Will it mean actually supporting the vita in the US with first party and AAA games?
Sony Interactive Entertainment is the future of PlayStation can’t wait to jump back into the PlayStation gaming world after a long hiatus Greatness Awaits.
The future is definitly bright, but you know what would make it brighter?
Modnation VR!
Come on Shawn that’s a sure fire hit, someone’s got to get on that
In PlayStation we trust
Congrats on this announcement. Thanks for all the great memories over the years, cant wait to see what the future holds for PlayStation.
Not an April fools joke, just bad timing. The announcement was a while ago, Hell of a day to make it official. The Japanese really have a weird sense of humor….
We should be able to change our user names so we can get the chance to start new chapters in our lives.
Wish The Best To Sony ( Playstation) New Chapter in Life , PLEASE POLISH The PS4 Media Player to Great as It Was In The PS3 , OR Much Better , Your Fan,s would Appreciate it Alot in A Big Update Pretty Soon , Thumbs Up Sony
I’m happy Sony’s getting it together with the Playstation brand. What I’d really love was some more focus on the PS Vita, like they do it on Japan, where it shares sales with 3DS, instead of being completely destroyed like here in the west. The expansion of backwards compatibility and greater variety of PSP games on the PSN Store would be very nice, I don’t mind buying old games of the PSN Store, but there are too few PS1/PSP games on the store, especially on the EU one (Portugal in this case)… I know it’s not entirely up to Sony, whoever holds the brand or the product has to agree to sell the game on the store and many of the companies don’t even exist.
Still, great job Sony, been a fan and a happy consumer since the PS1 and the disk-man era :D
Can we get that Legend of Dragoon remake tho?
Or even just a PS4 re-release with better translations and HD textures? :D
Since they apparently can’t even release the PSone game in Europe, probably not :P