This is the equivalent of Google hiring jade raymond to develop stadia because she "helped" ubisoft made Assassins Creed.
She was key on AC, built and leaded a team that got a failed Prince of Persia sequel project and turned it in a record breaking new IP.
Later did the same with failed Driver sequel project and built and leaded team that make a recordr breaking new IP, Watchdogs.
Also build and leaded Ubisoft Toronto studio, which quickly became the 2nd biggest and most successful Ubisoft Studio, able of working on many top performing AAA games from series like all Far Cry titles since 4, South Park Stick of Truth, For Honor, The Division, Splinter Cell, many AC games or Rainbow Six Siege to name some of them.
Jade is the leader and the one who built very productive and successful AAA teams that made or worked on record breaking fastest selling new IPs ever in gaming, like AC, Watchdogs, The Division plus many other top performing AAA games. She is one of the most important people in the industry because very little people achieved it and way less achieved it multiple times as she did. She is recognized as a very talented leader by the people who worked with her, great at building top performing and highly productive AAA teams and new IPs.
The person mentioned in the OP instead was a random loser in Sony. She was VP of business development in Japan Studio from 2013 to 2020. All the projects they had there were business failures: money sinks like The Last Guardian that needed external western studios to fix and complete its development, turds like Knack 2 and many other failures that ended on losing many of the key staff of the studio and putting most of the remaining ones to make -later cancelled- mobile games. And Japan Studio had business with Japanese 2nd party teams which most of them did stop working with Sony while she was in charge.
She then became Japan Studio vice president of mobile business in 2020 before leaving the position a year later, at the same time that mobile games that were being developed in Japan Studio got cancelled and people from there got fired and the studio ended being restructured and losing more key talent. In the recent 4 years of Jim Ryan era SIE expanded very successfully in all platforms, markets and regions excluding one of the single key areas where SIE wanted to expand: mobile business, the one she was in charge of.
So she got fired from Sony. The Japan Studio 2nd party team got branched out to have their own office and don't depend on people like her and instead work collaborating with the other SIE 2nd party teams from EU and US (XDEV), and Japan Studio internal development teams got merged into one of their internal teams: Team Asobi, whose boss was promoted to studio manager.
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) that MS knows that it needs in the ecosystem, where Gamepass is present (Console, PC, phone, xcloud), a varied and attractive catalog especially with a view to positioning itself as best as possible for the future and, of course, the games of Japanese developers are important.
