Having been with PlayStation since 1995, Jack Tretton, CEO and President of Sony Computer Entertainment America, made the shocking announcement that he’d be parting ways with the company, come end of March. A fan favorite, Tretton most recently helped launch PS4 during E3 2013 to a standing ovation by fans and press alike. Since that time, the PS4 has enjoyed great success and is easily beating its competitor, the Xbox One. Now in his first interview since departing with PlayStation, Tretton reflects back on his time with the company.
His thoughts after the jump.
Welcome to the PlayStation Store update for June 3, 2014. We have a great update this week packed full of new content and sales. Several new titles come to the PlayStation 4 this week including Murdered: Soul Suspect (also available for PS3), War Thunder, and 1001 Spikes (Cross-Buy with Vita).
While there is plenty to be excited about when it comes to E3 with Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studios expected to reveal major titles, one key PlayStation developer won’t be part of the celebration. Media Molecule, the studio behind the beloved LittleBigPlanet franchise, won’t be attending the show.
It’s happened to us all, be it in Gran Turismo 6 or Driving Emotion Type-S (anybody?). You’re racing, racing, racing. Minding your own business, being in first or second place and you’ve got only two laps to go or heck, maybe just one. Then a crash happens and you’re tossed all the way in the back of the line and the last 10 minutes of racing just counted for nothing. During such times, controllers have been broken, relationships damaged, and that feeling of disgust that you get to do it all over again. Luckily for gamers, 
The hallmark of any good game is not just its visuals, gameplay, or storyline but a combination of all of them that when put together, gives the title an experience like no other. From AAA titles like Uncharted and Final Fantasy to smaller games like Angry Birds, chances are that you’ve found yourself humming the games tunes without even realizing it. While some games have music only fill in the dead space between one battle to the next, other games like Metal Gear and God of War use it as part of the experience. 
For those playing at home, you’ll note that the PS2 crushed the Xbox (Xbox One?) in lifetime sales. Specifically, Sony moved 157.68 million PS2 consoles while Microsoft did a fraction of that with 24.65 million sold units. The generation after that was something completely different. Microsoft rightly designed the Xbox 360 for a connected multiplayer world and brought it to market a full year ahead of the PS3 at a lower price point. This resulted in the Xbox 360 being ahead of the PS3 for most of its lifetime but towards the end, the balance began to shift. Despite still costing more than the Xbox 360 and being out for one less year, the PS3 sits at nearly 83 million units sold with X360 trails at 81 million. This gap will likely continue to widen as Microsoft has ceased support for the console with games and updates for quite sometime now as it did with the original Xbox when the next generation console launched.
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