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Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden agrees some games are just too long: "I don't need you to spend 100 hours on my game" - MSN
Ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says that time is a more important factor than cost in the modern day when it comes to games. A lot of major releases these days end up trying to be massive ...
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An all-digital PS6 doesn't seem possible, according to ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden: 'I think it would be hard for them to go fully disc-less'
The PlayStation 6 is likely years away, and according to former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios CEO, Shawn Layden, players shouldn't expect a disc-less console.
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Former PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Says Sony Can't Get Away With Making PS6 Disc-less - IGN
Former Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios CEO Shawn Layden has said Sony can't get away with launching the PlayStation 6 console as an all digital, disc-less console.
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Sony's Shawn Layden wants fewer, bigger PlayStation games
Shawn Layden, formerly head of Sony's US PlayStation team, now heads up its game-making division. ... You have PlayStation Now, and I've used it, but I wouldn't play a shooting game on it.
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Former PlayStation Boss, Shawn Layden, Reveals He Left the Company to Avoid Burnout - IGN
Former PlayStation boss, Shawn Layden, has finally revealed why he left the company, almost two years after his departure. PlayStation abruptly announced on September 30, 2019, that Layden had ...
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Shawn Layden Reveals How PlayStation Went from Tragedy to Triumph
During a chat at the GameLab event in Barcelona, Shawn Layden sat down with Mark Cerny and revealed his reaction to the failings of the PlayStation 3.
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Ex-PlayStation Boss Has Mixed Feelings About Console Exclusives - Kotaku
And now, former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, who ran Sony’s gaming division from 2014 to 2019, has shared some ambivalent opinions on the nature of console exclusives.
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Ex-PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Lands New Job at Tencent
PlayStation has had its fair share of corporate shake-ups in the last few years, with a few executives climbing the ladder, switching focus, or jumping ship. Shawn Layden left the company in 2019 ...
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The big PlayStation 30th anniversary interview with Shawn Layden: "It was a fight to get the Sony name on the machine - they didn't want to be associated with it" - Eurogamer.net
Layden: When PlayStation launched I was still with corporate, back at Sony headquarters where I'd been since 1987. I was attached to the office of the chairman, Akio Morita, the founder of Sony.
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PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Shares Keys to PlayStation 4's Success - Business Insider
Shawn Layden Christian Petersen/Getty Images PlayStation was always intended to be a global platform. When we brought out the PlayStation back in 1994, we came out of Japan, but quickly moved to ...
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An all-digital PS6 doesn't seem possible, according to ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden: 'I think it would be hard for them to go fully disc-less' - TechRadar
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden doesn't think Sony "can get away with" a disc-less PS6 Layden thinks Xbox has had more success following the all-digital strategy He explains that making a ...