The Man Behind The Machine: Mark Cerny Is The Key Figure Behind The New Playstation 4

The Independent: ''In 1982, aged 17, Mark Cerny quit university in his native California to work as a designer and programmer for the era's most important games company, Atari. By 1984, he had created his first hit game, Marble Madness. By 1985, he had moved to Japan to work with gaming's rising giant, Sega, where he worked on both games and the cutting edge of console design – a combination that saw him leave in the 1990s to develop for one of the world's first CD-based consoles, the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.''

[kenmid]

We almost went a day without a Mark Cerny story. I know the PS4 and Xbox will be great consoles, but this guy has some many stories on N4g he should have is own tab.

[ApolloTheBoss]

^^^Already got one, lol.

[black0o]

he's reachable .. and does hold information back, so every site out there are haunting him

they hitting with all kinda of Q and they keep trying to corner him but they keep just failing and the guy keeps getting more and more respect from both fans and press

[papashango]

another cerny article....

Guy gets a hard on for attention doesn't he.

[minimur12]

http://s9.postimg.org/cm099...

haha :)

imagine if all of his stories were actually tagged with his name

[HammadTheBeast]

Just pointing out, this guy's a legit genius. He went to University of California for Physics at the age of 16.

Wow. Even "casual" news are picking up on Cerny.

[dcj0524]

Thats really freaking ( dont wanna lost another bubble. MODERATORS!!!!) Impressive.

[showtimefolks]

here is a man who deserves all the credit he gets and than some

its also amazing on sony's behalf that they have made him the face of PS4.

when he said ps4 ports will take 1-2 months i was like wow than the crew was ported to ps4 with 3 man team in 2 months damn

just imagine last of us and GTA5 coming to ps4 a lot sooner than we anticipated

[fsfsxii]

Geez, don't run into his related articles then.

[gaelic_laoch]

So did Don Mattrick until he got the Heave Ho!

[Electric-flamingo]

Incoming cerny

[EvilJeffBridges]

Cerny deserves the attention. He's an inspirational person. I rather hear about heroes of our culture than butt hurt fanboys whining about minuscule bull-crap..

[Electric-flamingo]

I can agree with that.

[EverydayGuy]

Isn't that why we came to N4G? To read about minuscule crap that the fanboys type to each other?

Look at me I'm a FB, PS4 sucks because their games suck, and now you have to pay to play multiplayer, and our DRM policy got changed NOW WHAT! OH YEAH! M$ is the only company trying to push NSA on us, and the only company that had to reverse its own policy just to boost their sales.
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PS4 is the future with indie support, you will have soo many games like steam.

[Williamson]

Not like cerny himself is posting these articles and besides I rather have articles about him than cliffy B who's really arrogant imo.

[fenome]

uh, duh. I love his passion for it, and his drive (albeit, his voice is a little bit 'I've got a body in the basement' lol), but this ite is playing him out like Mtv would've back in the day when they used to play music.

Don't get me wrong, I love that he's keeping us informed, and he was a key player. It's just the articles on here that come up as 'NEW', really... really? This is a summary of a conference where I first ever heard of this guy. Yeah, it is interesting the first time you read(heard) it, but after the 12th time of the same exact thing it's not news. Rehashing the same exact thing over and over...

The blame is definately not to be put on Cerny though, he's definately earned his spot in this industry and I wouldn't want it any other way. These submissions that are about the exact same thing over and over is what kills it though..

[EvilJeffBridges]

Then move along. Luckily there is plenty of other internet out there fore you to check out.

[HammadTheBeast]

I agree, I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about how on this site, people are taking his every sentence and making an article about it.

[Benchm4rk]

Has anyone else noticed that every company he worked for or was involved with is no longer in the console business. Atari, Sega, 3DO (Panasonic).... Wonder if this pattern will continue

[WeAreLegion]

Pretty sure most people in the industry worked at those places...

[IRetrouk]

Hes also worked for sony since the ps1, not one playstation has failed so far, plenty of companys go down the pipe, cant blame just one person for a companys downfall, they all have a group of people making the calls.

[fenome]

@EvilJeffBridges
Okay, so you honestly didn't already read or hear this before? If you haven't then my bad, it is a good read if you haven't seen it before. I'm a big supporter of Cerny and glad he was the one in charge of the PS4, don't get me wrong, I can't wait till I get my hands on the dualshock 4. It's just that almost everything about him on here is a rehash of a conference or interview. I'd post a link, but I'm on my PS3 browser right now and I can't even give you a direct reply right now, let alone a link (I can't wait to have a better browser!!).
But when I have better access I'll direct reply you with a link about this same article, only it's actually the man himself saying it. It's better actually hearing it from him. (high octaves and all, I kid, i kid. lol)

[EvilJeffBridges]

its possible some people have not been aware of this. it maybe a smal amount of people that havnt but they deserve to hear too.

[fenome]

Sorry, I wan't trying to be bleh, I think the booze kinda tainted my judgement last night, plus I was a little butt-hurt 'cause I tried to make a thread in the forums for the flamewars/fanboy stuff hoping it would clean up some of the clutter in the comment sections which immediately got locked. So then I kinda turned into a grumpy old cynical troll. lol

http://forums.n4g.com/FANBO...

Looking back now, I can see that no good would come of that thread. People would probably just get into arguments and what-not so I can totally understand why they locked it. Hindsight is always 20/20. I think maybe I should just start blogging to get stuff off my chest, because I can totally understand people not wanting to hear about my insignificant complaints. lol

[EvilJeffBridges]

I was boozed too, haha. You my boy, fenome. I raise my glass to you. Cheers.

[fenome]

Ha! Nice! Cheers man!

[fenome]

Oh, yeah, forgot I was supposed to be moving along...back to porn then, guess that's all the internet's good for..

[EvilJeffBridges]

yea , i moved along too...they have a cerny section at redtube and other porn sites now.

[IcicleTrepan]

He does a good job but acting like he is solely responsible for the machine takes away from all of the engineers that worked on this. He didn't single handedly will it into existence, it took an entire team of highly skilled, talented people.