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	Shacknews - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ken Kutaragi led the team that was developing the SNES CD-ROM.
		Kutaragi poured on the hype; saying that the Emotion Engine, the heart of the PS2, would "create a world as involving and impressive as portrayed in movies." On top of that, he claimed Sony would be the leader in e-commerce, allowing consumers to download digital movies, music, and even games straight to your PS2.
		Kutaragi was always seen as a true leader; nowadays, he's the butt of most gamers' jokes.
	www.shacknews.com /extras/kutaragi/070705_kutaragi_01.x (1572 words)

	Ken Kutaragi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木健 Kutaragi Ken, born August 8, 1950) is currently the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, the videogames division of Sony Corporation.
		Ken was recognized by many financial and technological publications for this success, most notably when he was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2004 in TIME magazine [2] and the "Gutenberg of Video Games".
		Kutaragi's rival for the top position, Howard Stringer, was given the less difficult assignment of the content business and his success at Sony BMG resulted in his promotion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Kutaragi (1215 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Ken Kutaragi
		Kutaragi was born in Tokyo in 1950, and entered Sony straight after graduation from Denki Tsushin University in 1975.
		A discouraged Kutaragi realized the only way his research could be used was if Sony produced their own game console and, at length, that's what he persuaded the company heads to agree to.
		Kutaragi started work on PlayStation 2 in 1996, was named Chairman of the American off-shoot in 1997, and became President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment in 1999.
	metropolis.co.jp /biginjapanarchive349/317/biginjapaninc.htm (484 words)

	I, Cringely . March 10, 2005 - Mr. Idei's Kurosawa Ending \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ken Kutaragi is the so-called "father of the PlayStation" -- an engineer who rose nearly to the top at Sony by being brash and taking risks.
		Kutaragi's plan was to lean on Moore's Law and rely on chip-level engineering to build Sony's future successes.
		Kutaragi gave up his vice-chairmanship, his seat on the Sony board, his presidency of Sony's home electronics and semiconductor operations and slinked back to running SCEI, where hopefully he'll light a fire under the PS3 group.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050310.html (1332 words)

	Forums - New interview with Ken Kutaragi about the PS3
		Kutaragi went on to explain that one of the reasons why the Cell chip for the PS3 was announced to run at 3.2GHz at E3 was due to heat issues.
		Kutaragi was asked if he has any plans to add a DVD recorder or home server capability to the PS3.
		Kutaragi also talked about the look of the PS3, commenting that he and Teiyu Goto, the console designer of the original PlayStation and the PS2, decided to give the PS3's body a curved surface after considering shapes that hadn't existed in either consoles or computers in the past.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=453586 (1479 words)

	ABC News: Demoted Sony Electronics Guru Is Outspoken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ken Kutaragi, known as the "father of gthe PlayStation," poses with PlayStation Portable during a pres conference on Sept. 21, 2004.
		TOKYO Apr 4, 2005 (AP)— Ken Kutaragi, whose name is often paired with "geek" and "genius," seemed to many a logical choice to take Sony Corp.'s helm as it struggles to turn around its stumbling electronics business.
		It appears the 54-year-old Kutaragi's outspoken nature, in a corporate culture that's oiled by consensus, may be to blame.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/wireStory?id=640181 (430 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sony exec admits mistakes, says company is 'growing up' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management's reluctance to introduce products like Apple Computer's iPod, mainly because the Tokyo company had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.
		Kutaragi, who has long been viewed as a candidate to lead Sony, was unusually direct in acknowledging Sony had made an error and blaming proprietary concerns from its entertainment division.
		Kutaragi — known as the "Father of the PlayStation" for making the game machine a pillar of Sony's business — said the new handheld, PSP or PlayStation Portable, will grow into a global platform for enjoying music and movies as well as games.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2005-01-20-sony-coming-around_x.htm (441 words)

	ZDNet/JAPAN: Ken Kutaragi, PS3 Route To Realization - Beyond3D Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kutaragi Ken's of the Sony computer entertainment president and CEO's talk is told in many cases like mere fancy science.
		Kutaragi Ken who actually interviewed, having carried out follow-up of the between until it results [ from present ] with future exactly, and calculating the relation of management, technology, and a market finely.
		Kutaragi Ken expressed not using the architecture of PS2 in addition to PSX and its variation model.
	www.beyond3d.com /forum/showthread.php?t=6341 (3590 words)

	Innovator Profiles-Ken Kutaragi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ken Kutaragi found his calling the day he bought one of the first 8-bit Nintendo NES videogame consoles.
		Kutaragi helped design a pulse-code modulated audio chip for the follow-on Nintendo Super NES console, a design win that led to a corporate collaboration on a next-generation CD-based games machine.
		Kutaragi rode Moore's Law to aggressive silicon designs that spelled success for the first- and second-generation Playstations, landing him a seat on the Sony board.
	www.eetimes.com /disruption/profiles/kutaragi.jhtml (201 words)

	PCReview: PS2 is nice, but I love cars / November 2001
		And Kutaragi is determined to prove that his baby, the PlayStation 2, can withstand the threat of new competition from Nintendo and Microsoft.
		Kutaragi is especially encouraged by the fact that, finally, software of high technical quality and aesthetic invention, such as the beautiful in-house adventure ICO, is appearing on PlayStation 2.
		Kutaragi tries to wriggle out of the question by insisting that the adapter "is not a peripheral", simply because it fits flush into the machine's main chassis.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /pc/2001/11/sonyhead.htm (1135 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - Meet the man behind Sony's PlayStation - September 1, 2000
		Asking Kutaragi about his parent company is like pushing the "on" button of a PlayStation game console: He bursts to life, gushing the sort of animated commentary almost never heard from the archetypal Japanese executive.
		Kutaragi's engineering genius is at the heart of the PlayStation -- and an object of admiration among his colleagues.
		Behind the scenes, Kutaragi was part of an '80s rogue movement within Sony to transform the company from the analog world of radios, recorders and TVs to the digital world of compact discs and computers.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/09/01/meet.ken.kutaragi.idg (1569 words)

	The ‘Father of the PlayStation’ gets a snub - April 10, 2005
		TOKYO —; Ken Kutaragi, whose name is often paired with "geek" and "genius," seemed to many a logical choice to take Sony Corp.’s helm as it struggles to turn around its stumbling electronics business.
		Kutaragi’s blunt manner may have been seen as problematic when the sprawling company, whose core electronics business has suffered amid its expansion into entertainment, desperately needs cohesion and revitalization.
		Kutaragi, who joined Sony in 1975, broke away from Sony’s mainstream thinkers in the 1990s to work on the PlayStation.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0410/biz/stories/02biz.htm (931 words)

	Ken Kutaragi Interview - Beyond3D Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kutaragi: Of course it'll be implemented in the Cell OS that's running on PS3.
		Kutaragi: The approach where improving computing performance as much as possible and combining GPU with it is just connect a PC with a TV and redesign packaging of a case, that is not new as a concept.
		Kutaragi: In addition to the aspects I mentioned earlier such as image quality and searching digital media, automatically analysing still pictures to optimize it for printing, or when you have more CELLs in home, image quality in TV may be improved somewhere along the line unknown by a user.
	www.beyond3d.com /forum/showthread.php?t=20062 (9062 words)

	Live Report - Ken Kutaragi's PS3 keynote // PlayStation 3 /// Eurogamer
		Ken is now enthusing about map databases, allowing you to get satellite photos and so on across the network...
		Kutaragi's back on stage for a talk session - however, he appears to be being interviewed by a Japanese journalist chap rather than conducting an audience QandA.
		There's been a sideways mention of the fact that Ken has just wittered on for an hour and barely mentioned videogames at all, but now they're having a lovely chat about how Ken is still an engineer at heart and dreams of integrating possibilities from many different industries rather than just focusing on videogames.
	www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=67794 (2857 words)

	Wall Street: Ken Kutaragi could leave Sony as a reaction to the demotion
		Prior to the announcement, rumors had been swirling that Ken Kutaragi, the driving force behind PlayStation, was next in line to be CEO.
		In the management shakeup, Kutaragi is giving up his seat on Sony's board and is losing control over the company's semiconductor division.
		Kutaragi's demotion could mean a loss of influence for him or attention by management to the games division.
	www.gamesreviews.net /message247614.html (1144 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article: GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming
		Ken Kutaragi joined Sony in 1975 just after attaining his degree in engineering from the University of Electro-Communications.
		Kutaragi proceeded to research and work developing liquid crystal TV sets and electronic steel cameras for the electronic consumer giant until the late 80s.
		At this point in his career, Kutaragi became involved in a deal with Nintendo, which would ultimately fail as a partnership, but would open up the door for the birth of Sony's break into the video game market.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/march02/top30/2419/index2.shtm (567 words)

	Ken Kutaragi - Gamers Reports Forum
		Ken Kutaragi is revered by video-game enthusiasts the world over as the father of the PlayStation.
		As for ken kutaragi, my only beef with him is that he talks and lies too much, nothin else.
		Ken Kutaragi paved the way for genre leading, rival console killing games such as Forza Motorsport, Halo series, Ninja Gaiden, Splinter Cell, and soon to be Greatest games ever like Alan Wake, Mass Effect, Crackdown, and many more.
	www.gamersreports.com /forum/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=8463&view=getlastpost (1328 words)

	EETimes.com - Playstation creator courts serious fun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kutaragi describes those processors as something less ambitious than a full-blown microcontroller, since they were streamlined and optimized around specific Sony systems such as tape decks and videotape players.
		Kutaragi found his calling one day when he bought one of the first 8-bit Nintendo NES videogame consoles while working at a Sony information systems research center, where he was one of about 100 digital engineers.
		Kutaragi and a Sony salesperson met with executives from Nintendo to propose Sony apply its signal-processing prowess to Nintendo's next-generation console.
	www.eetimes.com /futureofsemis/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18301417 (1691 words)

	PlayStation 3 may be playable at Tokyo Games Show // GamesIndustry.biz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has given a strong hint that visitors to this year's Tokyo Games Show may get the chance to try out playable PlayStation 3 demos.
		Kutaragi also unveiled the current PS3 development kit, codenamed Cytology, at the event.
		Kutaragi went on to restate earlier suggestions that the PS3 won't come cheap, telling the crowd: "I'm not going to reveal it's price today, I'm only going to say that it'll be expensive."
	www.gamesindustry.biz /news.php?aid=10358 (519 words)

	Gamasutra - Special: Kutaragi Talks Future Of Gaming On PS3
		When Sony's Ken Kutaragi strode on stage to give the first keynote on the business day of the 2006 Tokyo Game Show, one might think the CEO and President of Sony Computer Entertainment would be concerned at some of the adverse PR sent his company's way over the past few weeks.
		Kutaragi then elicited some applause for the demonstrations, noting that 12 years have passed since the first PlayStation was introduced, and that there has been a quantum leap in processing power and overall quality.
		Kutaragi even claimed that game programmers can share game elements with artists over a network - users will be able to see progress of game content over the network, and add to it, essentially talking about user-contributed content.
	www.gamasutra.com /php-bin/news_index.php?story=10967 (1337 words)

	TGS06: Ken Kutaragi Cold Chills, Chats - Kotaku
		We talked to Ken Kutaragi tonight to see how he thought the PlayStation 3 was holding up.
		Kutaragi also pretty much confirmed that we won't be seeing a comparative price drop in other territories.
		According to Ken, the Japanese pricing changes were merely an adjustment to keep the price inline with the market.
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/sony/tgs06-ken-kutaragi-cold-chills-chats-202510.php (852 words)

	GAF - News - PS3 won't ship with HDD, but will run Linux? Looks like it.
		Recently Ken Kutaragi had an interview with PC Watch, in which he disclosed a few more PS3 details, specifically details surrounding the Cell processor and HDD.
		Kutaragi used an 80gb and 120gb HDD as example, but he also stated that this still wouldn't be enough.
		Kutaragi also boasts that the PS3's Cell chip will be able to run various PC applications such as video and photo editing software.
	www.gamesarefun.com /news.php?newsid=5143 (4145 words)

	PS3Blog.net » Archive » New Ken Kutaragi PS3 Interview
		Ken does indeed suggest that the PS3’s horsepower could be increased.
		Ken didn’t go into specifics about how the ps3 could be upgradable except to in reference to its harddrive.
		Ken may also have suggested that the Cell can be tweaked through downloads.
	www.ps3blog.net /2006/06/09/new-ken-kutaragi-interview (837 words)

	IGN: Ken Kutaragi Discusses PSP
		Kutaragi states: "We wanted to have the start price be at a 'sweet spot.'" The low price shouldn't be so surprising, according to Kutaragi.
		Apparently, Kutaragi received some internal criticism when going about development of the company's own fabrication plants prior to the PS2's launch, with some calling the move "reckless" (and there was some initial trouble, if you'll remember this classic IGNPS2 story).
		However, Kutaragi argues that the plants are now used to produce chips for the PlayStation 2, the PSP as well as products from all other members of the Sony Group.
	psp.ign.com /articles/561/561772p1.html (640 words)

	Meet: Ken Kutaragi. For PS3's creator, this isn't a game
		Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., proposed the underpinnings of the Cell processor to IBM engineers as part of a next-generation gaming platform that would fully realize the "computer" portion of computer entertainment.
		Ken Kutaragi: It was immediately after we completed the development of the PS2.
		Kutaragi: We are real-time game developers, so all necessary schemes-such as resource allocation, priority setting and preemptive control in a multithread environment-have been taken into consideration.
	www.eetasia.com /ARTICLES/2005JUN/C/2005JUN_INT_WK2.HTM (1755 words)

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