Former Sony chairman and CEO, and the man widely regarded as “the father of the PlayStation console”, has been named an External Director at video games publisher Marvelous AQL, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) reported today.
According to Nikkei, the move would allow Marvelous AQL to capitalise on Kutaragi’s expertise on the video games industry to speed up developments in the company’s business both in Japan and overseas.
Ken Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation and current CEO at Ascent AI, isn't a big fan of the Metaverse or VR headsets.
He's dead right about the meta verse but dead wrong about VR. VR is much more social than playing fortnite with or without a mic or any other online game. In VR you can tell there is another human in multi-player games and not just an NPC.
I like VR but it is also rather limiting. Others around you cant really share in the experience, not unless you got a super rig of a PC that can support multiple HMD. Something like this: https://www.bing.com/videos...
How many people are happy to sit there and watch their friend/partner play a video game anyway? As far as online multiplayer VR is far more social than flat games.
Other players can see what you see on the tv. It can be a fun social experience actually.
I almost always out my PC to my TV when playing VR games so whoever can see what I'm doing. Beat Saber especially when I'm playing with the Mrs.
I enjoy the VR Oculus rift but I like the Quest 2 better because it's Wireless
The trouble is, the trade-off is comfort, weight, graphics and performance.
I agree with Ken on metaverse, but VR headsets are gaining in popularity and the tech is moving forward at pace. Ultimately, it his thoughts on this don't really matter more than anyone else's - many people don't even get traditional gaming, but the industry still booms.
The antisocial angle is a non-starter for a few reasons and it's certainly not true in my household.
"Ascent’s goal is to develop software and products for robotics to better interact with the real world." so we may be getting surrogates soon is what you're telling me.....?
VR is the future to me. Once we've gotten it to the level of traditional gaming in terms of visuals and we can translate third person camera camera controls to VR then that's complete and total immersion.
i know this wont happen in my lifetime but maybe I'll be reincarnated as someone else and be able to experience holodecks like in star trek.
One big issue that still needs to be resolved is the nausea problem people can and do get from it.
Yes, my bro-in-law gets it. They've made massive strides to understand and combat that, though, and I'm looking forward to putting a PSVR2 on his face after what we've learned on that front so far.
In the metaverse, people will be able to do whatever they want without real world consequences - that will be the appeal. Lie GTA to the nth degree.)
People were already losing themselves in MMORPGs years ago - because for them it was preferable to real life. I think the Metaverse will be the same - only far more enticing - and addictive.
Nor do I. It's stupid, and an attempt for our technocracy to exert more control over the populace than they already do.
I think everything that new these days is stupid, guess I'm just stuck normal world.
Yes! Facebook is leading the charge and they have a grand scheme to do exactly what you stated. Behind the veil of what's cool and interesting about VR is a more dark engineered plan for control
Just a way for FB to map out your home or current surrounding so that they can gather even more info from you
The path from the PlayStation 1 to the upcoming PlayStation 5 lines up neatly, but only if you’re looking at it numerically. In actuality, for more than 25 years the PlayStation team has had to navigate some of the industry’s most difficult terrain. During that time, a dedicated team of visionaries, engineers, and software developers established a brand from scratch, propelled it to unprecedented heights, struggled to maintain dominance, and eventually returned to what initially made them so successful.
Look back at the early days of PlayStation and its ambitious, innovative and complicated father.
His legacy is that 24 years later, PlayStation is still delivering and rockin a variety of games on great hardware. And, making gaming mass market beyond the idea that videogames are for kids. Adults play too.
That's something Ken K can be proud of.
And to think, it could have been a radically different outcome if Nintendo hadn't reneged on their deal or if Sega accepted their help after that situation unfolded. MS would likely never have entered into the console market.
The wondrous world of "what could have been, if...."
crazy ken is back