To act like people have no reason to dislike Ryan is to be completely ignorant of his own words and actions.
This is something you imagined due to being irrationally emotional, i said nor implied any such thing.
The decision to remove the PS Store from PS3 and PSP on PS3 happened under Ryan's tenure.
What does that have to do with focusing on America? POr as you say "giving" PS to America?
Also you are aware Sony tried that before Jim Ryan but they backtracked due to backlash too? It's the same thing.
under Ryan's tenure, does not respect the history of PlayStation. Ryan himself, as my own post, has said he doesn't understand the point in playing old games.
This didn't start with Ryan it started with the PS4, and in fact, the first stages were implemented on the PS3.
PS5 not having BC beyond PS4? RIP. Those are Jim and his teams decisions.
Why are you pretending Sony wasn't already doing this before with the avoiding BC issue? Goes bac to the PS3.
I shouldn't have to hold your hand on this issue.
I shouldn't have to make you think about you're bad reasoning before pushing it out.
Modern PlayStation is less concerned with PlayStation's famous diversity and are more interested in chasing similar big budget movie like experiences.
Seems like another issue that started on the PS3, and in this case arguably saved the console in the 2nd half of the gen.
Their disdain for Japanese titles especially during a time of growing love and re-appreciation for Japanese games
Where? Not sure what western sales numbers you are looking at (for home consoles/PC) also what distain? PS5 basically launched with a japanese title, and a bunch of japanese third-party support partnerships. If you are talking about First-party Sony's been lopsided to the west since the...PS3.
Even famous studios that had intense loyalty to Sony such as Atlus are putting their games on all platforms.
With Persona Microsoft literally had to talk with them and negotiate to bring those over to Xbox/PC, and wouldn't be surprised if that applied to other titles too. This wouldn't be a good example to what you claim.
PS5 changed the circle button to cross for confirm in Japan despite a nearly 30 year tradition of circle being confirm just to universalize it towards western gaming.
Actually it was to be competitive to Xbox/PC/other controllers, also I think Nintendo uses that format? Anyway, you listed one reasonable concern.
The issue isn't about defending Jim Ryan, you're reasoning are mostly just junk or apply before him. He's made many mistakes, including studio closures which he was involved with to a point, Evolution and say, Japan Studio too (somehow these were not the first things you thought of) among some hairbrained decisions.
But most of what you have been ranting about already existed.