Christopher Dring secures some rare time with CEO and president of SCE.
The mood at camp PlayStation has changed.
It’s subtle, almost imperceptible, but speak to any of its execs now and they are confident and assured. They are no longer facing the crisis of confidence that surrounded the firm when the once-expensive PS3 first arrived and was suffering from the clichéd label of ‘Sony arrogance’.
Sony dropped the swagger, but not the momentum – and the result for SCE has been a fantastic last 12 months.
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."
Replies(1)
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.
I have a lot of favorite Kaz Hirai moments, but it's inappropriate to mock him at this retirement.
it's ridge racer
Former Sony CEO and PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has retired. He will remain a senior adviser for the company following 35 years of service.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Replies(4)
he deserves to just kick back on a beach somewhere earning 20%.. Thank you for all you have done Kaz.
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.
But PS3 momentum has dropped since the 360 slim, are they under estimating the competition?
Will push the hardware sales.
The only region where xbox is not number one is Japan. US and EU are all xbox for the last 11 weeks . Japan is not = the world
all these accusations as to who is number 1 overall or by region fall on deaf ears and might carry more weight if you guys include a link to a chart proving your point.
How about that.
The numbers don't matter since all I own is a PS3 and the games I want to play are on PS3.