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Kaz Hirai To Head Up Sony's Consumer Products Business

Andriasang: Sony will be changing its corporate structure in a move that it hopes will accelerate growth as it aims to become the world's top network entertainment and business solutions provider.

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shikamaroooo4794d ago

who makes a kaz account just to troll he must either be a kid or have no life

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Jonah_Reese4794d ago

Hopefully good things happen as a result of this, very good things.

pain777pas4794d ago (Edited 4794d ago )

Kaz Hirai is who comes to mind when you think about the Playstation brand since Kutaragi left. Him overseeing all of Sony's products is just plain daunting. He will do a better marketing job I think to promote the brand worldwide for sure. Hope he achieves success.

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Our Favorite Kaz Hirai Moments

Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "what better wait to wish him well in his future endeavors than to recall our favorite moments from his time at Sony? That’s what we’re doing today in a special KOTRC that looks back at the man, the legend, the Kaz."

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ApocalypseShadow1770d ago

My favorite moment is when he turned the Sony ship around resulting in almost the utter destruction of their opponent in every important metric you can come up with that shut the mouths of the opposition and the naysayers that Sony would not be in the driver's seat. Resulting in worthless metrics from other parties to cover up the truth.

My most favorite moment.

timotim1770d ago

He had some zingers for sure. Love that guy.

DillyDilly1770d ago

No Ridge Racer mentions

You guys suck

Bismarn1770d ago

I have a lot of favorite Kaz Hirai moments, but it's inappropriate to mock him at this retirement.

it's ridge racer

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Former Sony CEO and PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai retires

Former Sony CEO and PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has retired. He will remain a senior adviser for the company following 35 years of service.

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Eonjay1770d ago

Also hands down the best fake twitter account of all time.

jeremyj29131770d ago

But for real tho😂😂😂

bouzebbal1770d ago

He was an amazing exec..
His English was perfect, he excels at communicating.

hiredhelp1770d ago

He actually was... I no longer own playstation since start ps4 as retired back to PC but dam there was something about kaz I loved...

specialguest1770d ago (Edited 1770d ago )

The same with me. I owned the PS3 and retired back to PC during the start of the PS4.

Too me it felt like the end of an era for console gaming as a whole after the PS3 generation.

BLizardXD1770d ago (Edited 1770d ago )

In short it depends on how kaz made gaming more attractive to you. speaking purely from my perspective -

I considered Ken kutaragi as part of my A-team, next to Hayao Nakayama, Shigeru Miyamoto, followed by peter moore in the US. I particularly viewed Kaz Hirai as part of the catalyst for pushing games to be closer to movies in oder to be considered AAA.

a good thing you ask? yes and no, leading all the way to the future. instead of games being designed to be entertaining games are being pushed to meet hardware expectations. it sounded great at first but now it's buckling the industry unfortunately. which is why sony was a no show this E3. with more games needing to meet hardware expectations fewer games will be produced in a much longer development cycle.

it all depends though on how their gaming devision made games more attractive to you. we have moved in the direction of graphics mattering to not mattering back to mattering. and all of this is at the cost of games needing to be longer in development.

my two cents.

OB1Biker1770d ago

I don't know why you have so many disagrees. From many perspectives serious or funny or even with memes and parody, hes become a legend I would say.

zodiac9091770d ago

This is N4G mate, the community is a Sh*t show above all else...I got my account suspended for a month for saying Days Gone did not look too good in terms of graphics. This site is a joke, especially in terms of rules.

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Relientk771770d ago

Kaz is the man. Thank you for all you have done for Sony and gaming.

UnholyLight1769d ago

I'll never forget watching....RiiiiiIIIIIIDDDDGE EE RACCCERRRRRR

Neonridr1770d ago

he deserves to just kick back on a beach somewhere earning 20%.. Thank you for all you have done Kaz.

Bathyj1770d ago

Thank you for that reference.
That's a nice suit too. John Phillips. London.

I have 2 myself.

darthv721770d ago

But unlike Hans... Kaz may actually get to earn that 20%.

Imalwaysright1770d ago

I don't understand why you got so many disagrees.

Neonridr1770d ago

lol.. clearly we don't have as many Die Hard fans as I thought. I am glad to see some people got it though

2pacalypsenow1770d ago

Enjoy your retirement.

You've earned it.

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The Analog Circle Podcast: Are We Headed Towards Another Game Crash?

In this weeks episode Kiaun will discuss Sony's State Of Play Event,Wolfenstein Young Bloods has a release date along with other details about the game,Starfield and Elders Scroll 6 will not be at E3 ,The Last Of Us Part 2 could release towards the end of the year,Monolith Soft could be working on the next Zelda game,the Sega Genesis Mini will come with 40 games. All these stories and more in episode 95.

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