Archive for the tag "kaz hirai"
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Hot, PS3, PSN, Sony | No Comments »
Speaking to Edge, PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai said that issuing PS3 Firmware 2.40 with a fault then pulling it back in for fixing is something the Sony should have avoided. ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Development, PS3, Sony, Trade | 4 Comments »
Final Fantasy XIII? Grand Theft Auto? Who needs ‘em? According to global PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai, the answer is a resounding, "Not Sony."
When queried about the issue by MCV, Hirai ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Casual, Home, PS3, Sony | 20 Comments »
Speaking with MCV at E3 last week, Sony president Kaz Hirai said that as long as the service is great, it doesn't matter when Home arrives.
“I’d much rather make sure ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in E3 2008, Microsoft, PS3, Sony, Trade, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Speaking to MCV at E3, Sony boss Kaz Hirai's questioned Xbox head Don Mattrick's claim that Xbox 360 will outsell PS3 this generation, saying the American exec needs to clarify ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in E3 2008, Home, PS3, PSN, Sony | 6 Comments »
Speaking to GI at E3 last week, Sony boss Kaz Hirai was careful to include caveats in the company's current plan to make the Home beta available this autumn.
"I've said ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in E3 2008, PS2, PS3, Sony, Trade | 8 Comments »
Speaking to the FT at E3, Sony boss Kaz Hirai has said that his target is for PlayStation 3 sales to exceed PlayStation 2 figures, now sitting at 140 million ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in E3 2008, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony | 6 Comments »
Kaz Harai has taken a side-swipe at Nintendo and Microsoft by saying they've done the consumer a disservice by getting rid of both GameCube and Xbox as soon as they ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Japan, PS3, Sony, Trade | 10 Comments »
Speaking at the PlayStation Business Review in Tokyo yesterday, Sony boss Kaz Hirai said that PS3 was the only machine capable of delivering "true generation" games.
"As PlayStation 3 approaches the ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Sony, Trade | 7 Comments »
SCE CEO Kaz Hirai has confirmed that the PS3 Cell processors will use new, smaller RSX graphics chips this "fall".
"The Cell and RSX used in PS3s at launch were manufactured ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Atari, Sony, Trade | No Comments »
PlayStation mega-boss Kaz Hirai has admitted that he had no idea former Sony worldwide studios president Phil Harrison was moving to Atari until the deed was done.
"At the time, I ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in PS3, Sony | No Comments »
Kaz Hirai's told the BBC that he's confident that PS3 will be the eventual winner of the current generation of hardware.
"I am very confident that after the 10-year lifecycle we ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Home, PS2, PS3, PSN, PSP, PlayStation Store, SingStore, Sony | 12 Comments »
Kaz is a nice chap. He only flew in to the UK this morning for the SCEE PlayStation Day in London, but he was still the consummate, media-trained super-exec we ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Sony, Xbox 360 | 13 Comments »
Speaking to videogaming247 at the SCEE PlayStation Day in London this afternoon, SCE president Kaz Hirai has said no uncertain terms that he believes Grand Theft Auto is primarily a ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Home, PS2, PS3, PSN, PSP, PlayStation Store, Retail, SingStore, Sony, Trade, UK | 8 Comments »
Keep your eyes open this afternoon, PlayStation fans, as SCEE will hold its 2008 PlayStation Day press conference at 4pm: it's gearing up to be a whopper.
In the absence of ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Europe, Home, PS2, PS3, PSN, PSP, PlayStation Store, SingStore, Sony, Trade, UK | 3 Comments »
As previously rumoured, Kaz Hirai will be giving a talk at the SCEE PlayStation Day, as a rep has just confirmed.
"Yes he is," a SCEE spokesperson told videogaming247 this morning ...
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