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Former PlayStation boss says Japan Studio's closure "wasn't necessarily" surprising: "When a studio hasn't had a hit for a while, then they forget how that feels"

"You start to forget how to get there," says Shawn Layden

In an interview with IGN Japan at Gamescom Asia, Shawn Layden, who previously served as president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, as well as chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios before leaving the company in 2019, has weighed in on the matter. Layden thinks "you can see that problem across the Japanese market" with other "historically super talented teams that haven't tasted success for a while and are still struggling to get back to it." After spending more hours than I can count filling The University of Sheffield's student newspaper with Pokemon and indie game content, and picking up a degree in Journalism Studies, I started my career at GAMINGbible where I worked as a journalist for over a year and a half.

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