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Shawn Layden, chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, will kick off this year's DICE Summit in Las Vegas with an opening keynote, organizers announced Thursday.While they couldn't say what his topic will be, the theme of this year's summit is "Trailblazers" and is meant to discuss the game industry's biggest ideas and trends.Last year's keynote by Microsoft's Phil Spencer turned into a call for more inclusivity and an end to toxicity in video games. The keynote was a powerful...
Microsoft
Sarah
Bond
Corporate VP, Gaming Ecosystem Organization
Microsoft’s Xbox may sell the least systems of the big three console makers, but Nintendo and PlayStation can’t match Bond’s Xbox Game Pass strategy, where day-one releases for new and exclusive games are often available to paying subscribers. Game Pass sports more than 25 million subscribers with access to a variety of AAA and smaller games from first-, second- and third-party publishers, and she continues to bring this availability well beyond consoles and PC, having struck new deals with Logitech and Meta for their respective new handheld and VR headset hardware. While Xbox has been struggling to meet the growth targets for Game Pass set by Microsoft, the service’s success has already led competitor Sony Interactive Entertainment to carry out an overhaul of its own subscription strategy in 2022, despite SIE’s PlayStation consoles outnumbering Xbox two to one.
