The Financial Times reports that Ken Kutaragi, Sony’s brains behind the PlayStation series of game consoles, has been kicked upstairs and that Sony Computer Entertainment is undergoing a management shuffle. In corporate-speak, the changes are described as strengthening SCE’s position on a go-forward basis, restructuring internal lines of communication in a proactive manner, as well as empowering SCE management to apply best-of-breed paradigms to provide added value while thinking outside the box … or something like that.
A direct consequence of the above announcement is that further development of the next-gen Sony PlayStation 4 game console has been suspended. However, Sony has been kind enough to forward an image of a prototype PS4, shown attached.
Sony sidelines PS3 mastermind Kutaragi – Financial Times, December 1 2006
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The world still waits for the PlayStation 4…and waits…and waits….
If we ever do get PS4, I hope it’s in mindblowing 3D and you can control games with your mind like a warlock.
Boy, when you read corporate-speak, it becomes plain to see why these kinds of delays might happen! What a confusing way to communicate.