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    Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken, born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman, currently president and CEO of Cyber AI...
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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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    purpose-built Cell processor, co-developed with Toshiba and IBM; SCE's president Ken Kutaragi envisioned a home entertainment system akin to supercomputers. It was...
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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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    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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    games due to its lack of analog sticks and pressure-sensitive buttons. Ken Kutaragi recounted the designing of the controller: In development, we simulated...
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  • Japan during August 2024. During the Tokyo Game Show in September 2024, Ken Kutaragi, former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, noted that Black Myth:...
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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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    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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    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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  • commercials in the United States. PlayStation was the brainchild of Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who managed one of the company's hardware engineering...
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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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    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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  • driver (d. 2009) 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer and producer 1950 – Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman, created PlayStation 1951 – Martin Brest, American...
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  • when asked which PlayStation game he was most impressed with so far, Ken Kutaragi answered Battle Arena Toshinden. There was also a positive reception...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • of 1993, Nintendo quietly canceled the addon entirely. Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi became interested in working with video games after seeing his daughter...
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  • PlayStation was invented by Ken Kutaragi. Research and development for the PlayStation began in 1990, headed by Kutaragi, a Sony engineer. Nintendo Gunpei...
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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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    and/or released for the Net Yaroze. Conceived by PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, the kit was retailed at around £550 in Europe and US$750 in North America;...
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    samples were not presented, Sony released extensive technical details. CEO Ken Kutaragi called the device the "Walkman of the 21st century", a reference to the...
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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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