Recently, Shawn Layden, who served as Chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios from 2014 to 2019, shed more light on the reasons behind his departure from Sony. During the last generation of consoles ...

Shawn Layden, former head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, suggests a 'universal software format' to boost industry growth as hardware advancements plateau.

Then the PS5 arrived in 2020 and Sony turned its attention to live-service gaming with the hopes of capturing a piece of the growing multiplayer market. Former executive Shawn Layden, who abruptly ...

Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has said that Nintendo’s first-party IP is strong enough to mitigate the “sticker ...

Speaking to PlayerDrive in a video chat, Layden mentioned that if you account for inflation, game prices have actually gone ...

Ex-Sony executive Shawn Layden reveals his decision to leave Sony was in part due to its pivot to live service games. Shawn Layden feels that the PS6 won’t be entirely discless, stating it would ...

The last major price increase came in 2020 with the release of the PS5. While Sony remained quiet, publishers like 2K Games took the lead, charging $70 for NBA 2K21. Activision soon followed with Call ...

Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden thinks the console wars are effectively over, and gaming can't grow much with just ...

The price of video games has been increasing over the last generation, and players are not happy about it. This issue of rising prices is complex, but there are experts who understand it ...

Layden posits that "The architecture in the current version of [consoles] and of high-end PCs are quite close now, they're ...

He later stepped down in 2019, and two years later, in 2021, Sony shut down Japan Studio, effectively putting an end to the publisher's AA game output. Shawn Layden recently said that establishing ...

Shawn Layden, the former Chairman of Sony Interactive Worldwide Studios, has revealed during an interview with the Save State Plus podcast that he left the PlayStation manufacturer partly due to ...