The man behind many of PlayStation Network’s flagship services, including PlayStation Plus, PlayStation Now, and PlayStation Store, will leave his current role at Sony Interactive Entertainment at the end of the current fiscal year. John Kodera – who you may recall briefly replaced Andrew House as the division’s CEO, before making way for Jim Ryan – led the Sony Network Entertainment group from 2013, and transformed it into one of the business’ key pillars, before it was eventually absorbed by SIE as part of a restructuring initiative.
These days, PS Store is one of the firm’s largest revenue drivers, with PS Plus retaining record subscription numbers and having an enormous overall impact on the company’s bottom line. In early 2019, Kodera took the unprecedented decision to effectively demote himself from the CEO role, allowing Jim Ryan to take over daily operations while he focused on the network segment. Kodera’s new role within Sony Corp will see him act as Executive Vice President, where he’ll continue to be involved with online services.
[source sony.net, via videogameschronicle.com]
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Hes the Executive Vice President now, it was announced by Sony here:
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/202101/21-008E/
Good, he’s done a terrible job. PS Now and Plus are a mess of duplicate offers and terrible messaging.
@thefourfoldroot PS+ offers are mostly great, PSNow is the problem tho with the lacking streaming Quality and availability
@IonMagus Thanks, I'll update.
@IonMagus
The fact that Plus is separate from Now and duplicates games is an immediate negative; then that most people still think Now is just a streaming service rather than a downloadable service is a huge own goal; plus Now hasn’t rolled out in much of the world even today.
I struggle to think how it could be worse.
Plus and Now really need to merge. Why are there two separate services with duplicate games, anyway?
Everybody off the sinking ship. PlayStation had a good run with Ps4 but now.....
@thefourfoldroot Problem is that PSNow is not available in many countrys unlike PS+ so dublicate Games arent as bad for majority of Players
@IonMagus
This is a common falsehood trotted out. The “majority” of players (if you don’t count the Chinese who don’t buy these subscriptions and barely buy full priced games period), do have access to Now; meaning the whole of America, and the vast majority of Europe in terms of consumer numbers (plus Japan of course).
Sony always changing their executives every console transition, just like ps3 to ps4, and ps4 to ps5. It seems mr kodera is promoted to higher position in sony corp.
@Gaming365247 Lol, you wish.
I'm guessing a lot of people are going to ignore the 'moving to a different role within Sony' to push some sort of fanboy narrative, always seems to happen.
I'm lost. I thought he became the big boss a couple of years ago. (Just keeping his old post at the same time too)
@thefourfoldroot I think there will be a big change with Now over the next 2 years to remodel it.
And regarding the availability that deal signing with Microsoft last year should also boost availability given Azure's reach worldwide.
Maybe now they can get someone who knows basic e-commerce to run the store.
@Gaming365247 weren't you defending Microsoft when they decided to increase the cost of Xbox live gold
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