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the man who bullied sony into making the playstation, then got fired for dreaming too big.
means ken kutaragi is the sony engineer who fathered the playstation and pushed console hardware from toy to supercomputer.
from in the late 1980s kutaragi secretly worked with nintendo on a sony-branded sound chip, got nearly fired when sony execs found out, then turned the humiliation into a pitch for sony's own console after nintendo dumped the partnership for philips.
nicknamecalled the father of the playstation
cell processorpushed ps3 chip so costly sony bled billions
management stylereportedly told staff to think for themselves or quit
ousterdemoted in 2007 after ps3 launch stumbles
for instance
playstation 1994 — launched in japan, sold over 100 million units
playstation 2 — still best-selling console ever, over 155 million sold
cell processor ps3 — co-developed with ibm and toshiba, cost billions to build
sony computer entertainment — division he founded and led as ceo