Jim Ryan joined Sony Europe in 1994 and has seen all of the console launches in the PlayStation range.
"But this one is, by far, the most extraordinary",
notes the one who in 2018 became the boss of the powerful video games division of the Japanese group.
This Briton is thinking of the very strong consumer demand for the PlayStation 5, marketed this Thursday in Europe, a week after the United States and Japan: the launch stock has been reserved for months by fans of the brand.
But he also evokes
“this strange year 2020”,
where the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted plans established for a long time at Sony.
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"We had never done large-scale telecommuting, and we still had so much to do on the PlayStation 5… I really wondered if we were going to be able to release the console by the end of the year,"
Jim Ryan recalls. .
We quickly realized that it was.
And we even managed to manufacture more units than for the PlayStation launch.
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