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Sony combines network entertainment and PlayStation into a single business unit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony has reshuffled two of its major corporate divisions with the goal of improving service to consumers.

Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International are being combined into Sony Interactive Entertainment, a new business dedicated to PlayStation users. Effective April 1, the changes mean that all of the business units belonging to SCE (the PlayStation business) and SNEI (the networking business) will be combined into Sony Interactive Entertainment, with headquarters in San Mateo, Calif.

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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.