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Why PlayStation Quickly Doubled Back on Its Two-CEO Model


PlayStation has a new CEO again -- kind of. Hideaki Nishino will be the sole CEO, following less than a year of serving with Hermen Hulst.

Parsing that wording, van Dreunen reasoned why Sony is maintaining these titles while elevating Nishino over Hulst in the larger PlayStation business operations. While it is initially shocking to switch up the succession plan, van Dreunen says it’s ultimately for the best they came around on it, as the two-CEO strategy is a “transitional model” and industry data “so often proves that when you have multiple CEOs, it just becomes confusing internally and externally.” So in my mind, any kind of co-CEO setup generally feels transitory and eventually will fall back to a singular person in charge.”

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