During a recent talk from Sony?s Shawn Layden at the Collision conference in Toronto, he shared what he thought was one of the biggest components to the company?s success. Layden pointed to diversity within Sony?s 13 development studios as one of the leading reasons for the company?s recent triumph in the console space:

The video game industry straddles creativity, innovation, entertainment, and technology in ways unlike any other industry. Our fans are boisterous, passionate, vocal, and extremely unforgiving. The lessons learned since the birth of PlayStation back in 1994 can serve many of you well, whether you?re a founder, entrepreneur, growing a start-up, [or] starting a business through this next wave of innovation.
We empower our development studios to constantly push the boundaries of gaming and give them opportunities to experiment and explore. We encourage them to take risks. We enable a culture that learns from mistakes and failures. As leaders, we encourage developers to act fearlessly and share new ideas. We try to be approachable, available, and responsive.
Layden then brought up the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima, and mentioned that its developer, Sucker Punch, could have easily simply made another Infamous or Sly Cooper game. He praised the studio for taking a risk on their current project, especially one so heavily rooted in Japanese culture while being built by a ?100% American development team.?

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