Ken Kutaragi The Father of the Playstation line

Ken Kutaragi The Father of the Playstation line of Consoles

Early Days Born in August 2, 1950 Kutaragi always had the desire to "tinker", often taking apart toys as a child rather than playing with them. This curiosity carried from childhood, leading him as a teenager to learn the intricacies of electronics. Eventually, in fact, his love of electronics led to him enrolling in University of Electro. Communications, where he acquired an Electronics degree in the 1970 s.

From Printing Papers to Printing Money Growing up in Tokyo, Ken Kutaragi was a straight-A student who worked after school in his family's printing business and enjoyed tinkering, building things like amplifiers and gocarts. After earning an engineering degree, he joined Sony because, as he told Business. Week , "it was the best in terms of encouraging creativity and offering researchers freedom" (June 14, 1999). He worked on a variety of cutting-edge projects, including an early liquid-crystal display screen and a disk-storage camera.

SNES Play Station? We use electronic devices everyday but it's not everyday that a simple machine tells a story. In 1988 Sony began working on a CD add-on to the SNES console most likely to combat the Sega CD and Turbografx CD systems that were out at the time.

Nintendo betrays Sony At the time CDs have been an interesting and cheaper medium to store games on. These benefits included larger memory capacity, better audio and potential to play video. Nintendo seeing issues with the format change and not wanting to split profits with Sony decided to renege on their partnership with Sony in favor of working with Phillips.

The Man with the Plan Ken Kutaragi, who headed the project didn't take this slight very well and reconfigured the prototype to be a standalone system. Originally he intended the System to be a Multimedia Entertainment unit but most of those features were scrapped. It wouldn't be until the PS 3 that Kutaragi's vision would be not only common place but competition for actual PCs.

Taking the world by Storm It was dubbed the Playstation, in 1994 (95 in the US) Sony released it's first standalone CD based console and it shook things up, 3 rd party publishers wanted to be on it and competitors tried their best to keep up with this new challenger.

The Legend of Success Ken My thoughts on this. . . Kutaragi's success story is amazing. He turned a bad situation around and gave rise to other players in the Game Console Manufacturing industry like Microsoft and if you'll believe it Google. For a while the Sony line of Consoles made their mark toppling some and butting heads with others.

He changed games but NEVER stopped playing Ken Kutaragi stepped down from President of Sony Computer Entertainment America in November 30, 2006 to be an Honorary Chairman only to leave that in Late June 2011. He continues to be Sony's Senior Technology Advisor. Today Ken Kutaragi is president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment, Inc. and surprisingly he's a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University.

My notes Sources (Some links on Wikipedia may be dead) https: //www. referenceforbusiness. com/biography/F-L/Kutaragi-Ken 1950. html#ixzz 6 KJo 7 h. ZG 8 https: //www. thoughtco. com/history-of-sony-playstation-4074320 https: //electronics. howstuffworks. com/playstation 1. htm http: //www. ritsumei. jp/mba 03_03_j. html https: //betanews. com/2006/09/08/kutaragi-sony-hardware-in-decline/ https: //archive. org/details/NEXT_Generation_32/page/n 9/mode/2 up

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