{"id":10660,"date":"2018-01-18T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/313295"},"modified":"2018-01-18T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T23:45:00","slug":"playstations-vp-of-dev-relations-florian-hunzicker-departs-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/playstations-vp-of-dev-relations-florian-hunzicker-departs-sony\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation&#8217;s VP of dev relations Florian Hunzicker departs Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/01\/18\/playstation-executive-shakeup-continues-with-exit-of-third-party-relations-boss\/\">As reported by VentureBeat,<\/a>\u00a0Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that head of third-party developer relations Florian\u00a0Hunziker\u00a0has parted ways with\u00a0the company.<\/p>\n<p>The departure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/289472\/Former_Harmonix_COO_named_PlayStations_new_VP_of_dev_relations.php\">comes a year after<\/a> Hunziker\u00a0took the job as\u00a0vice president of publisher and developer relations for PlayStation.\u00a0This change could potentially affect Sony&#8217;s relationship with its game partners and indie developers.<\/p>\n<p>This managerial shift takes place months after Sony Interactive Entertainment president and global CEO Andrew House <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/306918\/PlayStation_boss_Andrew_House_is_departing_Sony_after_27_years.php\">left the company in October 2017,<\/a>\u00a0with John Kodera taking his position.<\/p>\n<p>Hunziker\u00a0had replaced Adam Boyes, who helped recruit a number of third-party developers to the PlayStation 4. It is currently unclear why Hunziker left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by VentureBeat,\u00a0Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that head of third-party developer relations Florian\u00a0Hunziker\u00a0has parted ways with\u00a0the company. The departure\u00a0comes a year after Hunziker\u00a0took the job as\u00a0vice president of publisher and developer relations for PlayStation.\u00a0This change could potentially affect Sony&#8217;s relationship with its game partners and indie developers. This managerial shift takes place months after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}