The DeanBeat: Sony’s executive change makes you wonder how much the old guard is necessary

Jack Tretton spent 19 years at the gaming division for Sony in North America. PlayStation runs in his blood, but he is stepping down from the job of president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America on March 31. And so change comes to Sony. The question for the rest of us to interpret is: Why now?

Tretton served his company well and just won a big battle in the console war. But I don’t know why he would leave right now. I don’t have much to go on. I feel like one of those observers of the Kremlin under the old Soviet Union. I can only interpret what’s happening inside Sony’s game division by the occasional shake-ups. And my main observation is that the old guard isn’t valued the way it used to be in games.