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badgenome on 09 May 2013

Ken Kutaragi, the father of PlayStation, named External Director at Marvelous AQL

Published on May 9, 2013, by KarbyF

Former Sony chairman and CEO, and the man widely regarded as “the father of the PlayStation console”, has been named an External Director at video games publisher Marvelous AQL, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) reported today.

According to Nikkei, the move would allow Marvelous AQL to capitalise on Kutaragi’s expertise on the video games industry to speed up developments in the company’s business both in Japan and overseas.

Recently Marvelous AQL also made headlines after it acquired Atlus Online, the developer behin Shin Megami Tensei Online: Imagine, and changed the name of their subsidiary in the US, Xseed games, to Marvelous USA.

Kutaragi will officially assume the post in June at a Marvelous AQL board meeting.

Ken Kutaragi is also the the founder, president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment Inc. Although it was not mentioned in the Nikkei story, typically external directors are not required to leave their current jobs for the new post, so this is unlikely to affect his duties there.

Source: Nikkei

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Seems like Marvelous is going through a lot of changes lately. I wonder if this one will mean that ALL of their future games will be on Playstation or none of them will be.

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Xxain on 09 May 2013

Well thats a fall from grace.

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Oh god. I thought he was gone for good, I thought we killed it!

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Kresnik on 09 May 2013

Aww. A bit too late to have them slaving away at the PS3! THE REWARDS YOU GET WILL BE WORTH IT.

Still. Lot of changes happening at Marvelous lately.

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darkknightkryta on 09 May 2013

Didn't Marvelous code/make Soul Sacrifice? I seem to recall seeing their logo when the game starts (Not near my Vita to verify).

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darkknightkryta said:
Didn't Marvelous code/make Soul Sacrifice? I seem to recall seeing their logo when the game starts (Not near my Vita to verify).

Why yes, they did.

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darkknightkryta on 09 May 2013

badgenome said:

darkknightkryta said:
Didn't Marvelous code/make Soul Sacrifice? I seem to recall seeing their logo when the game starts (Not near my Vita to verify).

Why yes, they did.

So is this Sony's way of buying Shin Megami Tensei? By making their CEO, their CEO?