Yes! We get to write about Ken Kutaragi again!

by Andrew Yoon on Nov 11th 2009 6:00PM

1999 "You can communicate to a new cybercity. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!"

2000 PlayStation 2 launches.

2005 "The PS3 is not a game machine."

2005 "[We want] consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else."

2006 "It's probably too cheap ... This is the PS3 price. Expensive, cheap -- we don't want you to think of it in terms of game machines. Because the PS3 is like nothing else."

2006 PlayStation 3 launches.

2007 "As a matter of course, I have the vision of PlayStation 4, 5 and 6, which will merge into the network."

2007 Ken Kutaragi forced into "retirement" by Sony Computer Entertainment

2009 Ken Kutaragi forms his own company: Cybereye-Entertainment, for "next generation Internet service".

True, this isn't entirely gaming-related, but who knows when we'll be able to write about Ken's exploits again! And, to be honest, we've ... we've missed him. He's been out of the spotlight for over two years and no public video game figure since has mastered the unique art of the Kutaragism.

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Reader Comments (52)

like all genuis people, ken had a wacky side to him.

he is undoubtadly the father of playstation. playstation and and playstation 2 are still the most highest selling home game consoles to exist.

the ps3 concept is an excellent idea. state of the art cell based processing power, and excellent features.

ps3's real success will be shown in the next few years. the most sales of a console appear when they reach around 200$, so the figures we are seeing now are not that significant. if the past is anything to go buy, consumers prefer the sony playstaton console over others. ps2 outsold xbox 180 by about 8:1.

also i expect playstation 4 to be cell based as well. we still havent seen what the ps3 is capable of. the cell is a very advanced peice of technology, not like a standard cpu in your home computer. i expect the ps4 to be cheaper than ps3 as well.

sony playstation continue to deliver on all aspects of gaming. and still remain favourite to be the best selling console of this current generation.

the nintendo wii is not considered here. because technically the wii uses last generation hardware (pretty much same graphics as xbox 180), with a new controller. so in that sense it is competing with the ps2. and ps2 still remains on top.

As a ps3 owner I can't say I miss him. Look at all the "pants on head retarded" crap he said. In fact I'm convinced Glenn Beck is a test tube baby made from the dna of Kuteragi and Phil Harrison: another moron I don't miss.

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