Considering they have an interim ceo coming in, it seems like this took Sony by surprise. You don't get rid of your big cheese unless you've got a plan going forward, maybe he just went all nutter butters in the last few days and was turning up to the office in no clothes and pissing on the walls.
That it's exactly 30 years I imagine he always planned to be done by that point and I don't blame him, he's still got a good 10 years easily in the corporate world and having CEO of SIE while they are smashing sales, even post pandemic kind of writes the blank check for itself.
While as CEO I don't think he was able to implement a whole lot and he mostly said dumb shit, he was pretty instrumental previously in creating Sonys Dominance in Europe throughout the years and that's no small feat whatsoever.
Good luck to ol Jimmy Boy and I'm curious to see who takes the mantal. Maybe bring back ol Andrew house