Jackson will oversee strategic sales and promotional initiatives across all PlayStation platforms in North America. Bringing extensive sales and marketing experience from some of the largest digital entertainment companies in the industry, Jackson most recently held the role of Managing Director for Sony Computer Entertainment Canada and was responsible for maintaining the company's leadership position in the Canadian market.

WOW, there was basically no advertisement at all in Canada. And download cost for PSN games is 25% to %33 more, even if canadian dollar is at par with U.S. dollars. Bringing that kind of expertise from Canada is very scary.

I guess we just have to brace ourselves for higher download cost, and less advertisement for all North America : )

now that i think about it.. i havent seen any commercials for video games all year.

Indeed Chris when I see Devil May Cry 4 commercials its for the XBOX 360 version

This has nothing to do with his position.

...why do I wish Ken Kutaragi would fly into town and 'save the day'?

Well if that 44% left im sure there would be a lot less redundancies

I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise

We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.

Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.

it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.

This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.