Ken Kutaragi removed from president position

The guy was a PR liability. No big surprise.

Kaz Hirai knows about Playstation same as i know.

hallelujah is was a piece of shiser

But what is a massive surprise, is to see davedough doing yet another 'sony are shit' story. Do you have googlebots on permanent stand-by.

Adios,jackass. Thanks for an over-priced, over-hyped console.

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why could they not do this 2 years ago...altho I doubt he had anything to do with design and such more a PR head that had voices in it 0-o

connolly and your problem is? Ken Kutaragi did more damage to the PSP/PS3 than anyone else.....

ZippyDSM has a very valid point. This is great news for gamers in any camp. He was baltantly insulting the customers, he was making bold, rash, and embarassing statements for the company with pride. He's not who you want representing the biggest game system manufacturer in the world. It was making gamers look bad on all sides, showing the world that we think it's okay to insult and look down on us while taking our money. While I'm not a huge fan, Sony is better than that. As a company, they know not to say things like "We could win even without any actual games" and that people will buy your product no matter what because of an established brand. I'm now just surprised this didn't happen sooner, but it was probably a long time coming; they probably just wanted to wait until after the majority of the launch, so as not to appear weak in the marketplace. Really though, this is a good thing. And for the Sony fans, this isn't a strike against Sony, it's actually in your favor. Ken was making you look bad, and now that's going to stop; it should all be uphill from here.

TO me its simple reduce the PSP by 25-40% halve the UDM movie price and start reinvigorating the game line that would help the PSP As for the PS3....forget abotu the current launch fix the problems that are popping up with the current systems,the next batch of systems will be a new revision with the newer firmware in it put HDMI cables in the premium package and reduce the "core" package by 100$. its called balance if you want to play the "OMG is teh power" game the Xbox did be ready to lose ALOT of money on console sales to sell the games to make money.... __________________

connolly, It really is surprising to me how many people feel that I'm on an anti-Sony campaign. I don't believe Sony is shit, as you call it. I support Sony with many different products that I own. I don't quite understand how it's my fault, as an online content editor, that Sony has been given a lot of bad press lately. I wasn't working for aD during the time of the Xbox 360 launch, or I probably would have had a lot to say about overheating issues and the like. My job is to bring news to the masses and, good or bad, I can't help it if a company ostracizes themselves with bad corporate decisions.

Davedough meh SO far I have not seen you being harsh on sony just realisitc :X ^^

@ zippy dsm read my first post. PR liability and all that. @ davedough I suppose when the prodominant news stories circulating are the Sony mess-up variety then you can't be blamed for reporting them. I just can't see much balanced opinions at the moment. Maybe that will come. Apologies for any ill feeling.

I wonder if Kutaragi had anything to do with Sony crippling the PS3..? 256MB of onboard memory?!?! WTF is wrong with them. The more resources a platform has, the better the developers can work with it. Atleast 512 man... Damn I hate Sony for this. Even if Kutaragi had nothing to deal with this. He has made Sony look like fools for the past few months. He had it coming.

Now maybe Sony will be able to get more units out when they say they will. It is very important for Sony to meet the demands of the customer, they want more units when they were first promised. Hopefully things will turn around now. We will have to just wait and see...

Connolly, this isn't even a negative story about Sony, it's a story about Ken Kutaragi. And like handsom said, this is actually good news.

ripfuel Unless they do at least 2 of things I have mentioned for the PSP the PSP will not get any better,they might have plans to replace it in acoulpe years anyway 0-o as for the PS3 get on the ball and fixs all the problems NOW,delay the next batch if need be,to make up for the delay and for the first launch reduce the core by 100$ and add HDMI cables to the premium....other than that I really cant see much else "helping" hem more.

Ken has become an liability to Sony, costing them money and making absurd statements, and the possibility that he already cost Sony the console war by letting to many exclusives slip through his grasp because of his greed. This is more then likely a PR move, but also a inside move as many gaming companies like Rockstar has blamed him for titles like GTA not being an exclusive to Sony. In my opinion they probably would had gotten rid of him completely, but he most likely has some kind of clause in his contract to protect him or something that would deal serious damage to Sony, like knowing most of their secrets/moves and the possibility of Microsoft picking him up after Sony dropped him.

Not to that i'm a sony fanboy but this comes as a suprise to me. Despite recent problems I wouldn't direct them to him.

No more Krazy Ken? Awww, now who can we make fun of?

"We could win even without any actual games" maybe he wasnt being an ass, maybe he is simply aware that playstation 2 was the pirates dream for a system. and the pirates still needed the ps2 hardware. so if they just flat out opened the market up and made the games all open source they would crush everyone. no one would buy the systems that used games that cost money and sony would sell butt loads of hardware. the ps2 has like no protection at all, we are talking no need to even use a mod chip. and they didnt fix that with the slim ether. you could play the backups online and crack the encryption so easily. it definatly seemed like sony wasnt trying very hard to stop piracy. it made me wonder if sony always has that as the backup plan for when other people start thinking about it or, more rationaly, if/when file sharing becomes totaly legal the world over.

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georgeluv (Member) 2 December 2006 13:11 ... the ps2 has like no protection at all, we are talking no need to even use a mod chip. and they didnt fix that with the slim ether. you could play the backups online and crack the encryption so easily. it definatly seemed like sony wasnt trying very hard to stop piracy.

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What do you mean it has no protection? What do you mean Sony wasn't trying to stop piracy? The only way that you can boot games on the PS2 without a mod chip is by using a methods that simulate a real game actually being inserted. Swap Magic and AR MAX disks can't be burned at home. They are stamped at factories because only factories can write the nessassary date in the parts of the disks that need to be allocated. Ever notice how the memory card exploit does not work on slimlines. Yeah, Sony made it a point to improve it's security. You don't know crap about what you're talking about.