Variety has named-dropped Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, as one of the top 500 “most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry.”
The Sony executive also made an appearance in the same list for 2020 and 2021, and his recent credits include completing the acquisition of Destiny 2 developer Bungie.
The company has continued to make strategic investments, acquiring 14 per cent of FromSoftware and injecting $1 billion into Epic Games, and has also objected to the Activision Blizzard deal, which the FTC is now attempting to block.
PS5 is still outselling Xbox Series X|S nearly two to one, but Xbox’s domain over subscriptions prompted Sony to overhaul PS Plus in June, offering a greater library of titles to gamers.
Ryan recently headed up Sony’s CES 2023 press conference earlier this week, where he announced that the PS5 has sold 30 million units worldwide. In addition, he revealed that the PS5 stock shortage issue has pretty much been solved now, with the console readily available at retailers.
[Source – Variety]