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Kutaragi "uncommunicative", blamed for Sony's troubles

Posted Apr 1, 2007 at 1:10AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: News Tags: Howard Stringer, Japan, Ken Kutaragi, Newsweek, Sony, Wall Street Journal

Remember that Wall Street Journal report that labelled Ken Kutaragi as Sony's "stumbling block"? Newsweek has also come out with a similar piece on the embattled godfather of the Sony PlayStation.

Kutaragi has recently been transferred to the role of Chairman at Sony Computer Entertainment, making him more involved in game development. Kaz Hirai now acts in the role of president. According to Play.tm, the Newsweek report alleges that "the former SCE president was shuffled because of a lack of communication with Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer."

The lack of communication reportedly led to the string of problems alluded to in the Wall Street Journal article. Stringer was also reportedly unhappy about Kutaragi's advice to cut the PS3's price in Japan, something which, according to Play.tm, "the Sony boss believes could have been a subsequently poor decision."

Stringer allegedly attempted to fix the lack of communication between him and Kutaragi, telling Newsweek that "I've had dinner with [Kutaragi] more times than I've had dinner with my wife, and that's not really healthy."

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ms game department is focused on gaming

not trying to shove bd down your throat.

I dont think sony is losing exclusives because

of developement problems. I think they have

lost focus and game developers know it.

Sony is trying way too hard to get this console

into the living room instead of going for what got them to#1 gaming!!!!

# :'( — Guest 2007-04-01 13:12

I Know, He's Scaring me :(

# huh — Guest 2007-04-01 14:51

chuck...are you that much of a fanboy?

kutaragi is a dumb *****...no matter if he invented the ps1...we are in the 3rd gen..things change...and this man is not.

# yep — Guest 2007-04-01 14:53

sony has lost its touch...

they don't give a ***** about games...even though the ps3 is a supposedly gaming machine.

# asdf — Guest 2007-04-01 18:44

i agree

the wii is killing it in the gaming department and its basically a game cube w/ a better controller

# Errrr — Guest 2007-04-01 19:43

Hate to burst your bubble:

AC, GTA IV are multiplat - on 360, PS3, PC....

# well — hush404 2007-04-02 01:09

Kutaragi-san is an engineer. I dun see why he's jumped on for his communication skills. He's heads in making and improving hardware.

# great idea sony! — Guest 2007-04-02 02:18

Funny how they only talk about dropping the price where the thing actually sells.

# he's a professional idiot — Guest 2007-04-02 02:22

You call the PS3 an improvment?

All he did is turn playstation into movie players

# re — Guest 2007-04-02 02:56

i reckon if the ps3 wasnt packaged together and sold more like the xbox360 (without wireless/hdd/new-age-disk-player in the same package) people would have bought more because it seemed cheaper, but then again the games were always going to be bluray so it was destined to cost so damn much

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