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    Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken, born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Sony...
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    Entertainment System in the early 1990s. The console was primarily designed by Ken Kutaragi and Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan, while additional development...
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    games due to the lack of analog sticks and pressure-sensitive buttons. Ken Kutaragi recounted the designing of the controller: In development, we simulated...
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    Lifetime Achievement Award winners' careers, such as those of Ken Kutaragi in "Kutaragi's Way" and Hironobu Sakaguchi in "Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy". In...
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    collaboration to create next-generation chips with Sony and Toshiba. Ken Kutaragi charged the collaboration with "improving the performance of game machine...
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    Yarōze means "Let's do it together". Conceived by PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi and priced at around $750 US, the Net Yaroze (DTL-H300x) package contained...
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    in Japan. The PlayStation 3 began development on March 9, 2001 when Ken Kutaragi, then the President of Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced that...
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  • months after sexting scandal Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), President and CEO, later Chairman, of Sony Computer Entertainment Ken Kwaku (born 1946), Ghanaian...
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    just under two weeks after the launch of PlayStation 3, Hirai replaced Ken Kutaragi as president of Sony Computer Entertainment. While maintaining his positions...
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  • director Shegeichi Nakamura had met with Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi in 1993 to discuss the preliminary PlayStation specifications, with Namco...
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    16-bit WDC microprocessors for the new system. Meanwhile, Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi reached an agreement with Nintendo to design the console's sound chip...
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  • of Activision Blizzard (2008-2023) Kagemasa Kōzuki: founder of Konami Ken Kutaragi: Former President of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (1997 - 2007)...
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    director Shegeichi Nakamura met with Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi in 1993 to discuss the preliminary PlayStation specifications, with Namco...
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    SCEI, Ken Kutaragi, was appointed as chairman of SCEI, while Hirai, then president of SCEA, was promoted to president of SCEI. On April 26, 2007, Ken Kutaragi...
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  • disagreements between Sakaguchi and Sony Computer Entertainment leader Ken Kutaragi. Mistwalker's early games for the 360 were notable due to the console's...
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  • up for the losses it made during quarter two of its financial year. Ken Kutaragi was announced as CEO. Bandai Namco Holdings held 51% of the company,...
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    production architecture and earlier disagreements with Sony president Ken Kutaragi. Four titles were announced in 2005. These were Blue Dragon (2006), with...
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  • PlayStation face buttons (, , , ). PlayStation was the brainchild of Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who managed one of the company's hardware engineering...
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  • PaRappa the Rapper Stewart Copeland (The Police) - Spyro the Dragon Ken Kutaragi (Sony Computer Entertainment) - "Next Generation PlayStation" Phil Harrison...
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  • allows them to act efficiently, makes them smart risk-takers. Sony: Ken Kutaragi, in the position of a junior employee at Sony used to spend his free...
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  • when asked which PlayStation game he was most impressed with so far, Ken Kutaragi answered Battle Arena Toshinden. GamePro reviewed the Japanese version...
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    Though Sony has kept details of the PlayStation 2's development secret, Ken Kutaragi, the chief designer of the original PlayStation, reportedly began working...
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  • Electronic Entertainment Expo, global head of the PlayStation brand Ken Kutaragi reacted negatively to the character, feeling it not only misrepresented...
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  • CD was released by DigiCube on April 21, 1997, in Japan. According to Ken Kutaragi, when tested with a "performance analyzer" which Sony's engineers had...
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  • Entertainment (currently Sony Interactive Entertainment) in 1993. He supported Ken Kutaragi to develop the PlayStation as a Sony-owned console. In 1994, he succeeded...
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  • would be demonstrated to the Japanese press. He and his team worked with Ken Kutaragi, an engineer from Sony who designed the system's sound chip and would...
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  • competitor of Nintendo's next console, the Nintendo 64. Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi became interested in working with video games after seeing his daughter...
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  • friends and colleagues paid tribute to him in a Forbes memorial, including Ken Kutaragi, who said "Bernie was the man who devoted his life and passion to the...
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  • the PlayStation 2 was announced in March 1999, Sony president and CEO Ken Kutaragi used an early demo of Dark Cloud to show the capabilities of the platform...
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  • inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Ken Kutaragi founder of Sony Computer Entertainment, and the "Father of the PlayStation"...
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