| mysticD said: @Pristine I don't think the fact that Kaz design the PS3 change anything about Edge article. If you recall he resigned shortly after the launch of PS3. May be he was push out or may be he just simply didn't like where Sony was taking Playstation brand. Regardless of this, it clearly show the difference mindset between the launch of PS1 and PS3. Sony clearly was banking on the brand of Playstation to overcome the less than stellar line-up at launch and the $599 price point. They forgot how fickle us video game consumers are. Sony was dethroned by Nintendo just as quickly as they dominated Nintendo during N64. |
He was pushed out for refusing to lshow accountability to his bosses and spending too much money on R&D to produce an overpowered system which sony had to take an even further heavy loss in order to sell.
Granted, he probably wasn't the only one behind the blu-ray addition which is mostly blamed for jacking up the price but he had to take the responsibility because he ultimately decided what was included in the ps3. He still one of the greatest icons to touch gaming but he got blinded on the path to outdo M$ in tech. Perhaps it was the engineer in him that totally disregarded whatever fraction of a businessman he had in himself and he took it personally when he realized that the xbox was vastly more powerful than the ps2 last gen.
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