PlayStation's Jim Ryan defends controversial The Last of Us Part 2 trailer: "A game made by adults, to be played by adults"

Jim Ryan, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe, President of Global Sales and Marketing for Sony Interactive Entertainment, and onstage host of the PlayStation Media Showcase at Paris Games Week, has responded to accusations the event featured unnecessarily graphic and disturbing depictions of violence.

The trailers for upcoming PlayStation exclusives The Last of Us Part 2 and Detroit: Become Human featured scenes showing a woman being pinned down and attacked with a hammer, and domestic child abuse - and implied infanticide - respectively. Inevitably both clips provoked strong reactions, with critics denouncing the use of extreme violence to sell a video game. 

“We showed a lovely range of games [at the Media Showcase] last night,” Ryan replied when asked for his take on the reaction during an exclusive interview with The Telegraph. 

“The Last of Us obviously is a game made by adults to be played by adults. I should never prejudge this but it will probably be rated ’18’, I think it’s fair to say. And there’s that market for those people who like that sort of game. Adults who like that sort of game. And I think we cater for that, and at the other end of the spectrum there was Concrete Genie, which my 8 year old decided was the game she would like to play very much.