Jack Tretton No Longer With Sony

@giantsuck: He's like the prototypical charming businessman, the antithesis of the prototypical douchebag out-of-touch businessman that is Bobby Kotick. I'm know imagining Tretton as the Illusive Man, smoking his fake cigarette and it totally works!

Sony as a company is going through big structural changes, but the games division is one of the few parts of Sony that's actually doing well (the company as a whole has been losing to the South Koreans on TVS, phones etc.). So there's no reason why Sony would force any changes in one of the few divisions that actually works, and I doubt it has anything to do with that.

And he as CEO of SCEA would have no real input on the direction of the company, just on SCEA.

Wowow, Santa Monica layoffs, Amy Hennig leaving Naughty Dog now Jack Tretton steps out, what the heck is going on with SCEA? Sad to see all these people go.

I had a great impression of him. Sad to see him leave.

I never found him loveable, I always thought he came of as kind of smug.

Awwww maaaaannnn...... I love JT. Who's going to do the E3 press conference now?

Business man leaves business for more business. Film at 11.

@retardedfishy: That game project went nowhere worth continuing in four years of development, Amy Henning wanted to try other things, Tretton felt that 19 years were enough and most importantly that he could retire from the position proud of what he had helped accomplish.

That's what's going on.

I thought he wasn't charismatic at all. He had the personality of a shoe. Replaceable in every way.

In contrast, I don't like Reggie that much, but it is a guy with personality and charisma.

Hey..

Just because one section of a business is doing well does not save it from change when the company as a whole is tanking. This makes sense, Sony seems to be taking a step back from the U.S in order to focus on the main company meaning Japan.

Last year they sold the NY HQ, last week they shut 61% of their U.S stores. From the phrasing decided not to renew their contract i'm guessing he was expecting some raise due to the success of the PS4 in the U.S but Sony not being able to afford it gave him stock options, even though no one wants to own Sony stock at this point. Either that or his previous contract was based mostly around stock options and he wanted that changed.

Maybe he will go to another game company like Don Mattrick, that guy went to Zynga and their stock is up 67% YTD, so he is doing something great over there.

Do you follow the business world? If so you should know Tretton was extremely stale.

I don't get where people like you get this image of corporate business men being all terrible, but if you decided to watch some news and follow some of the CEO's of other companies you'd be surprised, how boring Tretton was. He is the stereotypical business man that most people, who think corporations are bad, picture.

I wonder what game is in that space gorilla's PSP?

Really going to miss him up on stage for Sony, such a BOSS!

Best CEO ever.

Nope.

the company is "re-structuring" I'd expect to see big moves like this.

ehhh not interested in arguing about CEOs what so fucking ever (yawn) but I find it very hard to believe you follow business closer than I do consider my professional employment and your Tretton opinions but either way what I follow most closely is games and in the world of games a CEO of any company half as large as Sony who comes off as even barely human is very much a needle in a hay stack. Disagreeing with that isn't opinion, it's delusion, so it should be no surprise that a human CEO is a fan favourite. This thread is ample proof of that and Tretton has enjoyed being liked for a long time, this year was just the zenith.

But ok, let's say your right:

Would love to see your list of videogame CEOs we should be celebrating instead.

At least he leaves behind an awesome legacy and boy, I sure do like the PS4. Going out with a bang.

Jackie T whyyyyy?! E3 won't be the same this year :(

For me is a bad information, tragedy.

In terms of E3 Press Conferences, he could never have topped the smokin' burner that was last year's.

You didn't say Video game CEO's you said "every executive."

well sorry, being that this is a games website I didn't think it was necessary to specify that I was talking about games companies...

say what!

I will miss his E3 presence. He was the only one who could do it without sounding condescending. A tough act to follow!

this is sad

I'll miss him

Now he can sit on his severance, collect pension and if he chooses, play games all day............ not to shabby.

Lovable? Executive? Does not compute.