Tag archive: Ken Kutaragi

Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that Ken Kutaragi, widely known as “the father of the PlayStation,” has retired from his role as chairman and group chief executive at Sony Computer Entertainment. The group will now be headed by Kazuo Hirai, most recently the group's president and COO. According to spokesperson Sayoka Henmi, Kutaragi will retain an advisory role with the company, but will no longer serve as a… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that Ken Kutaragi, the “Father of the PlayStation,” will retire as chief executive of Sony's game division on June 19, 2007. Kutaragi, age 56, will remain onboard as an honorary chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment and act as a senior technology advisor to Sony. In a statement, Katuragi said he would continue his work looking beyond the PlayStation: “I'm looking… Read More

News flash: Despite what you may have heard (e.g. game industry sales are up 54% year-to-date, PlayStation Home will r0x0r your world, etc.), truthfully, it’s been pretty slow lately in the interactive entertainment biz. Or rather, it has at retail, with software publishers loathe to ship next-generation titles which cost $15 million to make and must sell 500,000 copies on average to break even during this period, traditionally a slow… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that Ken Kutaragi, widely known as the “Father of the PlayStation,” is leaving his day-to-day role running the Sony games unit. Kutaragi will remain on as chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment and also become its chairman; however, his role as President of Sony Computer Entertainment will be handed over to Kaz Hirai, currently head of Sony Computer Entertainment America.… Read More

In a move sure to frustrate gamers on The Continent, Sony Computer Entertainment hastily called a news conference today and announced it is delaying the launch of its forthcoming PlayStation 3 gaming console from November 2006 to March 2007, citing limited supplies of the blue laser diodes used to power the unit's integrated Blu-ray disc player. Sony games chief Ken Kutaragi, known as the "father of the PlayStation," told… Read More

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Digital Trends contributor Tim Stevens was able to pass along some photos from the press events hosted by Sony and Nintendo at the E3 Expo to announce their Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii. Not the same as being there, but they help convey some of the flavor and tone of an industry confab at the scale of E3. A few short years ago, video games were the exclusive promise of teenagers with a few too many quarters on their hands; now, the… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment has outlined some of its plans for its Playstation Portable (PSP) gaming platform, including three software updates and add-on USB camera and GPS units. Ken Kutaragi said three PSP software updates are planned for 2006, with the first (slated for “spring”) to include support for Macromedia Flash, a Chinese font set, and the capability to downloading audio podcasts via RSS. Intriguingly,… Read More

[Editor's note: Come here from Digg looking for "Samsung Delays Blu-ray Disc Player"? Click here for that story - we incorrectlysubmitted the URL and apologize for the inconvenience.]   At a hastily convened news conference, Sony games chief Ken Kutaragi announced the launch of its anticipated Playstation 3 gaming console would be delayed until November 2006, more than a year and a half after it's official unveiling. At issue:… Read More

“The Playstation 3 will deliver nearly 2 teraflops overall performance, said Ken Kutaragi, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, at a presentation at the E3 game conference. The performance comes from the 3.2-GHz multicore Cell processor co-designed with IBM and Toshiba and the 550-MHz RSX graphics chip developed with Nvidia Corp. The resulting system will feature twice the floating-point performance of the Xbox 360… Read More

Sony today pulled the curtain up at the Electronic Entertainment Expo to reveal their development plans and launch schedule for their latest video game console, the Playstation 3. Sony stated in a press release that the backwards compatible Playstation 3 will combine cutting edge technologies including Cell, a 3.2 GHz IBM-Sony-Toshiba jointly developed processor (seven cores to be specific), RSX, a 550MHz graphics processor co-developed by… Read More

From the PC World story: “The NAS-A10 contains a 40GB hard drive, a CD drive, AM and FM radio, and a MemoryStick slot. Users can add music to the hard drive-based library from CDs or downloads from the 'Any Music' service in Japan–and also by connecting the unit with the company's Network Walkman or NetMD Mini Disc players. The jukebox also allows music stored on the disk to be transferred to either of the two… Read More

“The alliance, called the Marlin Joint Development Association (Marlin JDA), gives the companies standard specifications to build DRM functions into their devices that support commonly used modes of content distribution. A first version will come out by the summer of 2005, and it will support another, longer-term initiative, called Coral, which is aimed at developing a set of DRM-neutral agreements to ensure… Read More

“The new shipment figure was announced by Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi at a press conference in Tokyo, where he also reaffirmed the company's commitment to launching the PSP in North America and Europe by the end of March. Monthly production of the PSP is set to increase by 100,000 units to a million units a month in April, which will help to meet the demand of the overseas launches, according to… Read More

Sony has developed some great looking digital audio players, but they only supported Sony's own Atrac format and did not support the popular MP3 format, adding to lousy sales of these products. “Ken Kutaragi said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management's reluctance to introduce products like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, mainly because the Tokyo company had music and movie units that… Read More