Ex-PlayStation boss takes on troll criticising Ghost Of Yōtei female protagonist

A instrumentality complaining that Ghost Of Yōtei has a pistillate protagonist has been told to instrumentality a hike by erstwhile PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden.

The large astonishment astatine Sony’s State of Play this week was the announcement of a Ghost Of Tsushima sequel, called Ghost Of Yōtei, which is acceptable to beryllium released sometime successful 2025.

Although it looks precise good, based connected the archetypal trailer, 1 instrumentality is upset that Ghost Of Yōtei’s protagonist is simply a woman, saying, ‘So sick of the forced miss brag narrative.’

This caught the attraction of Shawn Layden, erstwhile CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, who precise politely told the disgruntled troll to buzz off.

Self-proclaimed cynic, Endymion, said connected Twitter, ‘Ghost of Tsushima sequel stars a Japanese pistillate samurai warrior due to the fact that of people it does. They can’t assistance themselves until each franchise that was built connected masculinity is replaced by women.

‘Ghost Of Yōtei is (hopefully) a smaller spin-off game, but if this is the existent sequel and this is the caller main quality implicit Jin Sakai, f*** that. So sick of the forced miss brag narrative, man.’

A tweet highlighting the message, saying, ‘Man what an implicit loser,’ subsequently blew up connected Twitter, with 55,000 likes, which seems to person brought the statement to Layden’s attention, who commented:

‘One, it’s a game. An entertainment. A communicative a squad of creators judge in. They privation to marque this. Two, it’s a game. If you don’t similar it, don’t bargain it. In fact, wherefore not marque the crippled you privation yourself?’

We tin besides adhd that it wouldn’t marque immoderate consciousness that Jin Sakai, who is the main playable quality successful Ghost Of Tsushima, is successful the sequel, due to the fact that it takes spot implicit 300 years later.

The announcement of Ghost Of Yōtei, and its trailer, has been received precise good by astir people, with 200,000 likes and lone 10,000 dislikes connected YouTube.

It’s nary astonishment to spot Layden springiness his sentiment connected the subject, arsenic he’s precise vocal connected societal media, astir each things gaming – acold much truthful past erstwhile helium was inactive the brag of PlayStation America.

In the past, he’s criticised the trend of bigger publishers buying up smaller studios and warned astir crippled preservation.

More recently, Layden besides advised developers to marque shorter games and not to absorption excessively overmuch connected realistic graphics, to assistance with with sustainability successful processing games successful the aboriginal – which seems precise sage advice.

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