Posts tagged jack-tretton 
PS4 launch a 'great redemption' to Tretton
Former Sony Computer Entertainment America President - and upcoming co-host of Spike's E3 coverage - Jack Tretton told GamesIndustry International that part of the reason for his departure from Sony earlier this year was that he wanted to "go out on top." Calling the PlayStation 4 a "great redem...
Former Sony boss Jack Tretton covering E3 for Spike TV
Jack Tretton, former president of Sony Computer Entertainment America and man who literally dropped the mic at E3 2013, will be back for E3 2014. Instead of operating under Sony's banner however, Tretton will join forces with Spike TV's Geoff Keighley as a "special correspondent" during Spike's "Al...
Joystiq Weekly: Batman: Arkham Knight, our South Park review and more
Welcome to Joystiq Weekly, a "too long; didn't read" of each week's biggest stories, reviews and original content. Each category's top story is introduced with a reactionary gif, because moving pictures aren't just for The Daily Prophet. Rocksteady revealed its return to the Batman series this w...
Jack Tretton steps down as Sony Computer Entertainment president
Jack Tretton is not renewing his contract with Sony Computer Entertainment America and as of March 31, he will no longer be president and CEO of the company. This is a mutual agreement between Tretton and SCEA, a press release reads. As of April 1, current EVP and COO of Sony Network Entertainme...
Sony's Tretton projects 3 million PS4s sold by year's end
Sony Computer Entertainment of America president and CEO Jack Tretton reiterated his sales projections for the PlayStation 4 in a recent interview with Bloomberg, asserting that three million PS4 consoles will be sold by the end of 2013. Tretton additionally believes that PS4 console sales will ...
Sony throws down new games, new footage, and the gauntlet at E3 2013
Sony finished day 0 of E3 2013 with a bang, following up on its PlayStation 4 console announcement from earlier this year with some more game teases and reveals, and then laying down one of the most memorable E3 moments ever, with Jack Tretton taking full advantage of the public discontent with Mic...
Tretton: PS4 game prices range from $.99 to $60
PlayStation 4 game prices will run the gamut from one dollar to sixty, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton has revealed. "We're going to welcome free-to-play models, games from $.99 up to those $60 games," Tretton revealed in a CNBC interview. Tretton also responded to the fact that we didn't actually get to see...
Status Report: the PlayStation Vita, three months in
"Three months, forty titles in. I think it's a fantastic machine. Of course we'd like to sell more of them, and we have key plans to do that," Sony's VP of Product Development and Worldwide Studios, Scott Rohde, told us in an interview during E3 2012. We asked Rohde for a status update on the PlayS...
PS Plus members get 12 games this month starting tomorrow
Your incentive for plunking down the cash on PlayStation Plus will be bolstered by a dozen new titles, Sony's Jack Tretton revealed today. While Tretton didn't reveal a full list of what PS Plus members will get in June, he called out a few titles including Infamous 2, LittleBigPlanet 2 and Saints ...
Tretton hoping for half-million PS Vita sales in first three weeks of US launch
Sony's backing the Vita's US launch with a $50 million marketing campaign. The company is, as you would expect, bullish on the system's future here, with CEO Jack Tretton estimating a big impact in terms of launch window sales. Speaking with Reuters, Tretton said he would "be very pleased" if the P...
