After busying himself over several years with the business of introducing PlayStation to the World, Ken Kutaragi has announced that he is taking a step back from the frontline, retiring from his position as Sony C🌜omputer Entertainment chairman and CEO, and assuming a more behind-the-scenes role as technology a🏅dviser.
He leaves behind an incredible legacy, having played a pivotal role in the creation and launch of PlayStation, PS2, PS3 and PSP. Make no mistake, without Kutaragi today's gam💝ing landscape wou𒊎ld be very different indeed.
Besides being eternally grateful to Daddy PlayStation for delivering his revolu💜tionary games console into our homes, we also want to thank him for being one of the most consistently quotable industry figures. Whenever Ken started waxing lyrical you were always guaranteed a solid gold news story.
So, in no particular order, here's our 10 favorite Ken Kutaragi quotes from over the years. If you're hungry for more, just type "Kutaragi quotes" into Google. There's plenty of them out there...
On backwards compatibility: "The current Xbox will become antiquated once the new machine comes out this November. When that happens, the Xbox will be killing itself. The only way to avoid that is to support 100 percent compatibility from Xbox 360’s launch date, but 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft won't be ab🌠le to commit to that. It's technically💦 difficult."
On the competition from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft and Nintendo: "We do not care."
On the price of PS3: "If you consider the PlayStation 3 a ༺toy, then yes, it is an expensive toy. However, it is more than a toy. It is a PlayStation 3. And it is the only PlayStation 3. I hope that those who understand this will gladly purchase𒉰 it."
On the definition of PS3: "The PS3 is not a game ma🌼chine. We've never once called it a game machine...With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment."
On the price of PS3 again: "It's prob♉ably too c🎶heap... If you can have an amazing experience, we believe price is not a problem."
On 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft: "Beating us for a short moment is like accidentally winning a point from a Shiha🍃n [karate master], and Microsoft is still not a black belt."
Ken hints that P🐼S3 might be a tad pricey: "Weཧ want consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one.' We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else."
On the potential of PS2 (yes, PS2): "You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!"
We're also including the following two quotes because - although thꦅey were - the fact that nobody could tell they were fake illustrates the caliber of craziness that we've come to expect from the man:
On 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft again: "Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun."
On discipline: "The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. ꦦEveryone will know discipline."
April 27, 2007
