What the Sony Reshuffling Actually Means

Newsweek's N'Gai Croal steps up this morning with some interesting analysis of the Sony re-organization that occurred late last month. Mr. Croal points out the difficulty of understanding the machinations of a notoriously tight-lipped foreign company, and attempts to look at the executive movements from the games business view. From the article: "Here's what's on SCE's plate at this very moment: three product lines that must be managed over the next five to six years (PS2, PSP and PS3); two more product lines that are almost certainly already in the planning stages (PS4 and PSP2); an online service, an online store, operating systems and system updates for each of the post-PS2 machines; and one of the world's largest game studio operations. Given that workload, Sony desperately needed to free Ken up to do the vision thing, and groom the next generation to run SCE on a day-to-day basis, much like Microsoft did when Bill Gates ceded operational control of Microsoft to Steve Ballmer. So while we have absolutely no visibility into whether this evolution was initiated by Kutaragi or by Stringer, it strikes us as precisely the right move to help ensure the future health of the PlayStation business."

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From TFA

[tttonyyy]

In the days that followed, much of the speculation and analysis was misleading, inaccurate or just plain outlandish. Sounds just like the speculation that used to exist over the hardware in the console.

Summary of TFA: We don't really know what's going on, but we've got a few clues so we'll wildly extrapolate forward from those.

In other news, no tea in the vending machine this morning - this probably means that Asia is now underwater and establishing a subsea uber-race.

Re:I hate forced subjects

[xantho]

Especially since that guy cut his ears off and gouged out his eyes. He'll never be able to find out now. Except maybe by braille articles in Newsweek.