Ken Kutaragi Retires from executive role

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Erik Aston said:

bdbdbd said:I would personally see Kutaragi more like Yokoi. They both had visions, practically unlimited trust from their superiors and they were both pretty much successfull until... Yamauchi was a little harder to fire than Kutaragi, although, Yamauchi was the biggest shareholder.

Yokoi was a genius of hardware design. Kutaragi was not. Though Virtual Boy was a disaster, DS and Wii both come from the Yokoi school of hardware design, and even GC and GBA owe far more to Yokoi then Kutaragi. More expensive hardware which is less powerful and never acheives its multimedia ambitions--that is Kutaragi's hardware at its BEST.

I think Kutaragi and Yamauchi both deserve credit for revolutionizing the business side of things. For changing the established business strategy and permanently widening the audience videogames could reach. They both established a major new market for home consoles, they both increased penetration in the established markets, and they both revolutionized third party relationships--Yamauchi being the first to embrace third parties, and Kutaragi the first to rely on them nearly exclusively for sales.

Ha!!! Thats why Sony has been in fist place in the console market for 12 years right? just go play wit your wee man. (notice i said wee not Wii no fanboy hate please)