Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden sees modern games as suffering a "collapse of creativity." He said as much during a recent panel talk, which also saw him identify some other concerning trends affecting both PlayStation and the rest of the industry.
Layden is a long-time Sony executive who spent 23 years at the company. He most recently served as the chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, and had previously also held the roles of Sony Interactive Entertainment America president and CEO, among several others. Layden left PlayStation in 2019, subsequently citing exhaustion as the main reason for this decision. He has juggled between several roles, including that of a strategic advisor to Chinese entertainment giant Tencent, since then.
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Layden attended the 2024 edition of Gamescom Asia, which is currently taking place in Singapore. He was featured in a panel talk on the opening day of the convention, which saw Gordon Van Dyke, the co-founder of Swedish game publisher Raw Fury, lament the disappearance of AA titles. Layden acknowledged this state of affairs, noting how the slow death of medium-budget...
