PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi retires from SCEI

Friday 27th April 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Farid

Sony announced Thursday (April 26) that Ken Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation and chairman and group chief executive officer at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., will step back from his current position and will now serve as Honorary Chairman of SCEI and senior technology advisor to Sony Corp. come June 19.
Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai, currently President and group chief operating officer of SCEI, will replace Kutaragi as group chief executive officer of SCEI.

This is probably the last of the recent management changes to affect Kutaragi. In 2005, he was demoted from the board of directors and replaced as chief of consumer electronics of Sony Corp. And recently, on November 30, 2006 (pdf), he was replaced at the head of SCEI by Kazuo Hirai, who was SCE America boss.

Kutaragi's involvement with the video gaming business started with the creation of the Super Nintendo sound chip. He is mostly known for being the architect behind the PlayStation creation, as well as the head of SCEI from the start; a group that is now the source of a large part of Sony Corp. operational incomes.

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