Previous PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Sees Google, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon as Threats to Gaming

Previous PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Sees Google, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon as Threats to Gaming

Former PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Sees Google, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon as Threats to Gaming

by William D’Angelo , published 6 hours ago / 1,635 Views

The former PlayStation employer Shawn Layden in an interview with GamesIndustry noted 3 huge issues he thinks the video videogame market will face in the coming years. 

“First, combination can be an opponent of imagination,” stated Layden. “I likewise believe increasing expenses in videogaming are an existential danger to all of us. And the entry of non-endemics into the sector – otherwise understood as the ‘barbarians at the gate.’

“Right now we see all the huge gamers going, ‘Oh, videogaming? It’s bringing in billions of dollars a year? I desire a piece of that’ And so we have Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon desiring to get piece and attempting to interferewith out market.”

He included the video videogame industry requires to findout what occurred to the music industry when Apple “convinced everybody that 99 cents per tune was a excellent concept.” He likewise stated Netflix hasactually interrupted the film market.

“I’m hoping videogaming will be the veryfirst market where we interferewith ourselves,” he stated. “Where it doesn’t take a Google or an Amazon to totally turn the table. We needto be wise adequate to see these modifications coming and prepare ourselves for that scenario.”

It was brought up that Sony and Microsoft were non-endemic to the video videogame market when they wentinto the market.

“[Sony] understood enough that homeentertainment was its own monster, so Electronics understood it couldn’t handle this company by taking all the men from the CD department and go after videogames,” stated Layden. 

“So in the preliminary phases of the business, it was a joint endeavor inbetween Sony Electronics and Sony Music Japan. They understood they had to bring the homeentertainment… right from the starting. The individuals handling the marketing, marketing, publisher relatio

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