Sony sidelines PS3 mastermind Kutaragi | FT
Sony sidelines PS3 mastermind Kutaragi - Ken Kutaragi, the Sony engineer behind all three generations of PlayStation consoles, will on Friday become chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment in a move that that underscores Sony's difficulties in the video games market. [Financial Times - Asia Pacific]
......promotion to a global role at SCE could mark a critical shift in management thinking, with Sony changing its emphasis so that the current generation of games console will be its last as a hardware manufacturer.
"œThe appointment of Hirai could be the start of a shift from hardware to software," said Yuta Sakurai, an analyst at Nomura. "œI cannot now imagine a PlayStation4."
Mr Sakurai said that Mr Hirai"™s new global portfolio puts a predominantly software-focused manager in charge of the company, adding that SCE"™s future would be shaped by Mr Hirai"™s relationship with Phil Harrison, the president of SCE"™s worldwide studios.......
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