Ken Kutaragi | |
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.jpg) Kutaragi with his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards 2014 | |
| Born | 2 August 1950 Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | University of Electro-Communications |
| Occupation(s) | Engineering technologist, businessman |
| Known for | PlayStation, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cellius |
| Children | 1 |
Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken, born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the video game division of Sony Group Corporation, and current president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation",[1] as he oversaw the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs, including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3. He departed Sony in 2007, a year after the PlayStation 3 was released.
He had also designed the sound processor for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. With Sony, he designed the VLSI chip which works in conjunction with the PS1's RISC CPU to handle the graphics rendering.
- ^ Kageyama, Yuri (5 April 2005). "Demoted Sony Guru is outspoken". The San Francisco Examiner. Associated Press.