Father of PlayStation Finds a New Job

It seems the "Father of PlayStation" finally has new fish to fry following his abrupt departure from Sony Computer Entertainment as a consequence of the dismal PS3 launch.

Japanese reports suggest that Ken Kutaragi will be joining the board of Kadokawa Group Holdings, a parent company housing 56 affiliated studios specialising in publishing, film, visuals, cross-media and videogames.

[IIamback]

LEGEND! ONE and ONLY

[Sir Ken Kutaragi 1]

What a Handsome man!;-D

[Bleucrunch]

This man is a genius and deserve homage to be paid to him. You Krazy Ken You! LOL

[xboxftw]

"The position will be formally announced at the company's 54th annual general meeting,"

I'm thinking "janitor".

[DrWan]

that would suck....if u work all your life for something and then you get turn into a janitor.

[gambare]

in the middle of his bullcrapness, we have to think that he's japanese, after a very stressful job he could try get a more relaxing job, after all, his bank account is huge.

[juuken]

I'm thinking...that you need to shut the trap.

[Sir Ken Kutaragi 1]

...More INTELLIGENT than ALL the xBot Lemmings put together on this!!! ;-D

'PLAY-BEYOND...xBox 360's LIMITS!!!' ;-D

[m-s-8-2]

@1.4 - Exactly. I wonder what xbot does for a living, to belittle the man who was responsible for the 2 most successful consoles of all times, and one that is on its way to joining that group.

[Pain]

'PLAY&WATCH-BEYOND...xBox 360's LIMITS!!!' ;-D (hehe i like that one^^)

[cmrbe]

I bet MS use janitors as their x360 engineers.

[LaChance]

the guy who got fired ?

[xboxftw]

Yes, the father and killer of ps brand.

[Shadow Flare]

No you're thinking of Peter Moore. The guy MS hired for Xbox 360 after he made the Dreamcast crash and burn. And then he made 30% of xbox 360's crash and burn, costing MS billions of dollars. Then he got fired. Ken Kuturagi is the guy that revolutionised gaming, brought it to the mainstream and more adult audience and hence sold millions and millions of consoles, won 2 console wars and destroyed all the competition. He's also the guy who has created the best home console in the world. It's called the PlayStation 3 and it's outselling Xbox 360 every month. Don't get your people mixed up

[Iron Man 2]

Shadow Flare just owned you Xtards hardcore!

Ken K. is one of the greatest minds in the history of the universe,if it wasn't for him,none of us would ever experience the most advanced gaming consoles that are PLAYSTATION®,it's the best thing followed by sex!

And yes Shadow,Peter Moore f*cked us all up here at Micro$haft!;)

$hane

[Sez]

yeah he was fired. just like phil harrison.

[timmyrulz]

Are we sure his new job isnt a lawyer or a politician? what other profession can you tell lies and bullsh1t and have the masses believing you?

[xboxftw]

He can create his own religion and all these droids will convert to Kenisim.

[LordZ]

I loved my ps1 and ps2, and now i love my ps3.
Thanks Kuratagi for making of the ps3 a powerfull machine.

I wish you the best of luck in everything you do.

[George Washington]

thats odd.. cause i LOVE my ps1 and ps2.. but i think the ps3 is complete crap.

[300]

Wow thats odd, kindrid spirits or something.. cause i like my ps1, ps2 and and ps3.. but i think the 360 is complete crap. LOL, its a funny old world.

PS. anyone can act like a fanboy and say stupid things, stop trolling fanboy.

In line with the article, I wish Kutaragi San the best for the future.

[prunchess]

Ken set his sights very high with the PS3 and Sony will only begin to see He was right to aim so high by the end of this year.

The man got the bullet due to bad PR and Sony's stock price.

[meepmoopmeep]

he was good at what he did for the PS brand. none have failed since. i hope the "new guy" taking his job can keep up his legacy and i wish hime the best in his new endeavors.

[timmyrulz]

Lol at the Sony defence group, didnt even press enter and a disagree came up!

"RROD" just thought i would say it before someone else did :)

[solidt12]

good for Ken, he the man.

[SUP3R]

It's a shame that all of you are so disrespectful to the man that revolutionized the video game industry into what it is today.

If it wasn't for Kutagari there would have never been an Xbox brand, but ignorance is bliss for many, so continue your trash talking. At least I know none of you will ever be able to achieve or accomplish what he has.

[strongbad1441]

The PlayStation was what made gaming "cool" and not just some nerdy hobby. It basically did for hardcore gamers what the Wii has done with casual gamers.

[Mwaan]

You mean bought it. After stealing ALL third party developers from Sega and Nintendo, they had nowhere to go but up. Sega has all but disappeared and Nintendo has resorted to making games for 5 year olds and the elderly to stay alive. I wouldn't call that a "revolution." If it wasn't for Microsoft, you would have paid $1000 for your PS3.

[InYourMom]

Thank you Mwaan for that truth.

All these Ken knob gobblers are still just getting their first pube and are so young they think the Video game industry rises and falls on Sony. There was already several successful companies that were the TRUE innovators in video gaming industry like Atari, Nintendo, Sega long before Sony.

Later Ken, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[juuken]

Mwaan, do you even hear yourself? If it wasn't for the 360, we would be spending $1,000 for the PS3? I'm sorry but MS can go to hell along with their console. I know I invested my money in a damn good system and that's the PS3.

Go spread your PS3 propaganda elsewhere.

[LONEWOLF231]

Its good to hear that good old crazy Ken found a good job!

[Kaz Hirai]

Sony HQ just isn't the same without you!

42 days until Judgment Day, Nazisoft!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

[Sir Ken Kutaragi 1]

Don't worry i'm still secretly working on PS4!!! ;-D
Micro$oft can only DREAM of having a Brain like mine!!!;)
Just think these xBot Lemmings WORSHIP Bill Gate$!!! ;-D
THATS F-IN FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-D ;-D ;-D

'PLAY&WATCH-BEYOND...xBox 360's LIMITS!!!' ;-D

[S1nnerman]

Was it in relation to Sony seemingly being left behind in the next gen console race? If so, I bet he feels vindicated!

[KingItachi]

Good for Ken he is still doing what he loves.

[JokesOnYou]

hopefully they just don't let Crazy Ken talk to the media, who knows what he might say.

JOY

[akaFullMetal]

he's back..................!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SL1M DADDY]

They gently "ousted" hime from Sony. It's a shame too since he did in fact make another great PS console. Only if those in control today could have seen just how well it would be doing this year. They might have waited a bit longer to make a decision on keeping him around. All they ever had to do was just keep him away from the press for a few months. lol

[jackdoe]

I thought he already had a job with Cellius, that joint venture that Sony made with Namco Bandai a few years back.

[Britjadg]

yeah me 2, i heard that somewhere as well.

[bootsielon]

Just like Miyamoto is the Spielberg of games.

Idiotic Xbots should be grateful because thanks to the PlayStation brand, Xbox exists! Thanks to Kutaragi, gaming was brought to the mainstream, and the difference between hardcore and casual was none (until the Wii ruined that!). Without PlayStation, the games would have suffered greatly in terms of production values, in departments such as image, video, and music quality. Stories would have ended up being a simplistic load of baloney instead of convoluted massive epics. Without the PS brand, not as many if at all mature titles would have been released. Grand theft auto 3 would have never been as popular, and for GTAIV, "tings wud be very diferent", if you know what I mean; it wouldn't be as great in every dept, and again, a PC exclusive. But wait, all the JRPGs we've learned to love, most of them would have ended up releasing only in Japan, and constrained by cartridges. What a horrible world of gaming! Without them, there would have never been a very serious contender to Nintendo in the handheld arena, not to mention in the console one (without disrespecting the awesome Master System, Genesis and Saturn consoles).

Had Sony not entered, Microsoft wouldn't have given a sh1t about games, and the industry would be a lot smaller, kid oriented, using horrendous cartridges, and no console would ever play media files. Console gamers would have missed most Xbox 360 exclusive games as they would have been relegated exclusively to PC. Gears of War may not even exist... Halo would have been a PC exclusive game, so would have been Bioshock, Mass Effect, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Fallout, Half Life, Quake Enemy Territories, the Darkness, Prey, all the Elder Scrolls and pretty much every project from Bethesda, iD Software, Valve, Epic, etcetera and from the RTS, FPS and WRPG genres. So be grateful, Xbots!

Edit: Above:

"Mwaan", Sony didn't buy many important 3rd party developers; Capcom, Konami, Namco, Squaresoft, Enix, etcetera... all chose the Sony platform because it didn't need those expensive cartridges and wasn't constrained in the type of content, in the amount of content, or in the code needed to make your games (Nintendo prohibited certain types of code, which limited N64 even more than cartridges did). CD game development made it very cheap to develop games of much higher quality than the ones you saw in cartridges. N64 was an awesome console but it failed JUST because of cartridges.

Sony brought a lot of innovation, and a lot of developers thank that, since at least there was a machine where they could compete with the first party developers (and a machine with a massively unprecedented record breaking install base), and where you could deliver content for ALL AGES and not just for acne filled teens and below, with a life-span almost guaranteed to be twice that of any previous console, not to mention future compatibility with the next consoles, and both cutting-edge and state of the art technology like USB, CD, DVD and Blu-ray.

Edit, below:

Wow lachance, WOW. Your hate for Sony is big. Your insight is powerful, I'm impressed. "Somebody would have taken their place!!!LOL!!" like whom? Microsoft saw the opportunity long after Sony got into gaming. Was it not for them the industry would have seemed like peanuts to them. Apple failed, many companies failed you moron. LG actually tried to get into gaming, remember the 3DO? It was marketed by Panasonic, Goldstar (now LG), and another company. So yeah, whoever is a 3DO fanboy here is an LG CONSOLE FANBOY, WELL DONE, GREAT "PREMONITION", MORON.

Any other bogus gaming company you wanna ad? "There would have been", we're not talking about would haves, we're talking about WHAT HAVES, and Sega would have probably still been doing what nintendon't had Sony not entered the console race; but the game industry wouldn't have been as dynamic, competition wise, as SEGA would have simply filled the niche Nintendo failed to.

BTW, Kutaragi resigned, or was asked to, but he had the option to remain as a Senior Honorary Chairman for consultancy.

[himdeel]

...Nintendo had agreed to the CD add on to their system we would have probably never seen the PS1 as we know it today.

[JVIDICAN]

and microsoft wouldnt of even entered the home cousel business if they didnt see the money sony was making with the ps1 and sega would be nintendos main competition =P

[LaChance]

If it werent for Sony bla bla bla

If Sony werent there somebody else would have taken their place. Are you guys stupid or what ?

If MSFT werent there somebody else would have replaced SEGA.

If Sony isnt there next gen someone else will take their place same goes for MSFT.

You might just be a LG or samsung gaming systeme fanboy in a couple of years.

@ SHADOW FLARE : lol you're one insecure guy. I just asked if he got fired rather than just telling me yes or no you go start dissing.
I guess that means yes he got fired.

[DJ]

Actually, they probably will seeing as how it's selling so well. I don't want the PS4 to be watered down.

[Glad to be a gamer]

But when it comes to the ps3 im still not sure its the promise land that some here claim. I so far have not had a good enough reason to purchase it.

Im still not sure whether Br is good for gaming. I have so far seen nothing that would make me sell my 360 and play beyond.

If the architecture of the ps3 was different and hd dvd(faster read times) were used instead and the memory was increased we would of seen games eclipsing the 360 even now?

P.s I hope to be proven wrong as i want games to push the boundaries as far as they can this gen and for us as gamer to be wow and amazed.Not that i haven't been already this gen with bioshock, mass effect and Gta4 but i still want more. Thats why we buy new consoles to be amazed and to see somthing new and uncapable of being done in the previous gen.

Memory is the biggest limiting factor for both consoles i can't see how we are gonna see games that eclipse the other with this in mind

[No FanS Land]

Ken Kutaragi was the god for sony. Now I hope Kaz Hirai (The f***er that took his place) will go on and push the ps brand to what we were used to

[Ballsacteebaghow]

The Killer of the PS brand finds a job.

Change the title, mine makes more sense.

[juuken]

Wow, the little babies are getting butthurt over a man who brought millions to the PS franchise. If it wasn't for this man, I wouldn't be playing games on the Playstation. Have respect for the man and grow the hell up.

[4D]

If it wasnt for this man you guys wouldnt have had to wait a year longer and pay alot more money for the same damn graphics you can get on the 360. Hows that Blu-Ray player working out for you??? Stupid A$$ Blind Sony Sheep. Still waiting for 4D and CGI graphics??? Thought so. Go preinstall a game, watch it freeze, and get locked out of online play b!tches!!!

[juuken]

And you're a blind ass 360 billygoat.
Keep laughing at the PS3. Your laughing will end soon and very soon.

[cmrbe]

As times goes by people will only see the genius he really is. I am terribly sad he won't be working on PS4.

[xboxftw]

LOL

HIs new job writing sci-fi fantasy novels based on 4dimensions and historic Japanese battles with Giant crabs driving in RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIge racer cars.