Ken Kutaragi to receive AIAS Lifetime Achievement Award

"You guys might want to lighten up a bit."

Same could be said to you. Stop acting like a defense victim every time a Sony post comes up. Stop hurling insults towards others.


"I hate you, but that doesn't mean we can't be friends."

lol wut
Contradictory, much?

Yes, let's give someone forced out of his job an award.

See thats why Joystiq needs a ban axe, there are lots of trolls here, and nothing informative unlike those you find at Kotaku.

On topic: Ken Kutaragi contributed greatly to the video games regardless of what you think of him. Undeniably, he deeply likes Technology, but sadly he made some batshit crazy comments, but still he deserves for his contributions to video games field.

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Anyway, I think he fell foul to believing his own hype and listening the the choir rather than the congregation (the unconverted, if you're bothering to follow my metaphor). Deserves a big clap for what he's done though, even though he fell into the classic Sony trap of focusing on the technology rather than what it's doing and who might be doing it.

An award, huh? So... was nobody else available?

Way back where no one will read it, but

I feel his only stroke of engineering brilliance was the PlayStation, as it was perfectly balanced for its generation, well-equipped for the new wave of 3D game (especially compared to 3D-as-an-afterthought Saturn) catching the new wave of developer openness and a cost-effective solution for publishers

PS2, on paper, shouldn't have beaten Dreamcast, DVD was the only great engineering decision in the PS2, but it really failed in developer accessibility compared to the simply-utilized Dreamcast. PS2, however, was able to build on Sony's goodwill in the market (and on Sega, Nintendo, and Microsoft's lack thereof in various different respects) to become the next industry standard

PS3, i feel, was Kutaragi's true brainchild, where he had all the resources and time to really build his vision, which was not built with marketability particularly in mind. It was what he really wanted, but the one that was least workable