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[Moosichu]

Lol

 

[ScaryShark]

That 'think of the children!!!' response was embarrassing.

Jim Ryan is awful. He routinely makes terrible public comments that are easy fodder for blog articles and he sucks on camera. Easily the worst public face of PlayStation I can remember.

 

[Keinning]

I like how they roll out Jim Ryan everytime they have potentially bad news.

If you're going to say something stupid to the public might as well use the dumbest clown you have in your company

 

[N7.Angel]

Please shut up, thanks Sony.

 

[Currygan]

That's got to be the most pathetic excuse i've heard in months

 

[HMD]

Thank you Sony, I feel safer now.

 

[Cartho]

Good guy Sony protecting us. Just like they protect us from the evils of EA access.

 

[Jonneh3003]

It's for the children

Can't have children being exposed to those Switch and Xbox One players, who knows what could happen.

 

[bosseye]

Read it twice, still not quite sure what the reasoning is. Something about children.

 

[RNG]

Jim Ryan at it again

 

[AcademicSaucer]

 

[OG Kush]

Stifling innovation and progress of video games.

 

[Uno Venova]

Haha so glad the reporter followed up with Nintendo's stance after that response.

 

[QuantumBro]

#4ThePlayers

 

[Aostia]

Can I ask you GAF which could be the real reason?

 

[UpUpDownDown]

Is this a done deal? Or are you leaving the door open, perhaps?

Jim Ryan: I don't think anything is ever a done deal. Anybody who is dogmatic in that manner is typically a fool. That said, to my knowledge, there is no live conversation ongoing at the moment.

Sounds like if you really want it, start bitching.

*Shrug*

 

[Rheon]

Their reason makes no sense at all lol.

 

[skyfinch]

Good stuff Sony. Keep up the good work!

 

[Feichaw]

The King can do no wrong. Thank you, Sony, for protecting us.

#4theplayers

 

[chrisPjelly]

Woooooooooow

 

[sixteen-bit]

smh

 

[fluffydelusions]

 

[MaximumSpider]

I'm so glad Sony is protecting me, a fellow player.

 

[wonderful103]

Is it just me, or this actually makes sense?

It's just you.
Again, it's not just Minecraft.

 

[Lister]

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children

This is exaclty what he just did, isn't it. Man.

 

[JStein0222]

Jim Ryan, can someone stop him from talking to the press?

This. Bad tone, optics, whatever

 

[friskykillface]

Haha holy shit
That response is 🐐

 

[Chauzu]

Using the "think of the children" excuse when even Nintendo is on board... Does he have no shame?

 

[RyougaSaotome]

Boy oh boy was that an awful excuse.

 

[Chobel]

I sure missed the old arrogant Sony.

 

[Eumi]

Man Sony. You're starting to fuck up on some stuff now.

At least, very visible fuck ups.

 

[Trup1aya]

lol Sony protecting their fans from Having to deal with larger player pools enabled by xplay with other consoles gamers... yet PC crossplay is perfectly safe.

 

[OrbitalBeard]

Is it just me, or this actually makes sense?

It's the classic Nintendo line.

Except Nintendo is actually allowing cross-platform play now!

 

[jon bones]

😂😂😂

 

[Yushi]

probably a shareholder decision.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Is it just me, or this actually makes sense?

It's a very long winded way of saying "We get nothing out of this, so we're not going to do it."

 

[Tagg9]

Unless they have a more technical reason for why this is supposedly "unsafe", I'm calling absolute bullshit.

 

[thehillissilent]

This is embarrassing. Sony looks like idiots especially considering Nintendo joined in on the cross-platform multiplayer train.

 

[fernoca]

Guess Nintendo no longer cares about children.

 

[CronoShot]

Jim Ryan: Yeah. We've got to be mindful of our responsibility to our install base. Minecraft - the demographic playing that, you know as well as I do, it's all ages but it's also very young. We have a contract with the people who go online with us, that we look after them and they are within the PlayStation curated universe. Exposing what in many cases are children to external influences we have no ability to manage or look after, it's something we have to think about very carefully.

This reads like a mid-2000s Nintendo defending the lack of online play in their games.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

I'd say something along the lines of "Sony pulling a Nintendo", but that would be inaccurate considering the recent events.

 

[wbEMX]

Yeah. We've got to be mindful of our responsibility to our install base.

That's why you don't give features that your install base wants to your fans. 4 The Players? Fuck off.

 

[McMoneyman]

Jim Ryan please stop thank you.

 

[Prompto]

Lol what a shitty excuse

 

[Gator86]

Oh god they're using Nintendo's horrible excuses.

My immediate response. When I could confuse your answers for Nintendo's, you are fucking up, badly. Just say money - we all know it's money. Literally no one is tricked by this, you dumb asshole.

 

[hawk2025]

The explanation is just as bad as I expected.


Sony needs to walk this back before they miss the boat. They've already missed two of the biggest franchises in gaming right now.

 

[orochi91]

Jim Ryan is a PR Saint

XD

looooooool

 

[Jake2by4]

Shu fix this shit.

 

[LelouchZero]

This sucks! Nintendo are doing an amazing thing with cross play!

 

[Double Donut]

Should have cut the "for the kids" BS and just left it at the honest "it's a business decision" part.

Ugh.