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How Sony is blending games, movies and VR into the same ecosystem | Jake Zim interview

There aren’t many media and entertainment companies like Sony. The company’s PlayStation 5 console is still a market leader in consoles. It’s branching into PC games, and it just launched the PlayStation VR 2. On top of that, Sony’s The Last of Us has become a massive hit as television series on HBO.

Heck, in a couple of years, maybe we’ll be playing games in our Sony electric cars.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.