Sony shuffles top management

Goodbye Ridge Racer :(

Thank you Akira Sato for everything, you did a great jop.

@Aeriscloud99 - more like a raise of $599,000 a year. Riiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer!

WHO CARES!!!

@KBFloYd deputy presidents are just a fancy name for head of office (SCE). Chairmens are like highest rank and are declared as one of the owners of Sony

wait... so chairman is a lower position than president? he got demoted?

Does this mean no more Kaz at e3 sony press conferences?

@Cartr1dgeBased The PS1 was code named PS-X during its development. So Sony started that.

Kaz has done a great job so he deserves it.

@rasterror could you expand? im not sure what you mean

@CorruptGamerGX Heh Jack Tretton said that? Makes him pretty awesome in my book.3DS isnt anything that great anyway. Anyway grats to the guys up top.

Shuffle.... Some big heads needs to be let go, then hire few more network security guys with that money you will get from letting them go..

I want Ken Kutaragi back at Sony. I felt after he left SCE as a division went down. Sure it was ridiculously expensive when it first came out, but the PS3 wouldn't be the monster it is without his vision. It just feels like SCE lost its vision after he left.

Zipper interactive is starting to dissapoint me.. Other than that sony is O.K

@mjc0961 Why? Still bitter about his "3DS is babysitting-tool" comment? This article is about Kaz making his way to the top and not Jack Tretton.

"accelerating the implementation of a faster, stronger, and integrated strategy to create new user experience and generate added value by uniting hardware, content, and network, both for the home and on the go." Now that's what I like to hear.

Did he get a raise of $599 an hour?

why do people call the ps1 a psx? who started that... and why? the psx is a ps2/dvr. that is the psx, nothing else

Enough with this PC treatment of the father of PS. Ken Katuragi needs to get taken out to the back alley already!! He deserves no less after almost destroying the PS brand.

Gratz to those moving up. Oh man original PSX... I can't believe this much time has passed since then. So many great memories. I fondly recall Sony trying to break in when it was still a Sega vs Nintendo era. A lot of people were expecting Sony to fail. At the time, the prevalent belief was that there was no room for a 3rd console company. I'm really glad they didn't. Competition always breeds better products and always will!

I like jack tretton he seems like a decent guy and a pretty good public speaker. I like Kaz too and I know he will do sony proud.

@mjc0961 What, why? Jack T is a really nice guy, down to earth and modest. If you've ever seen him present E3 then you'll see that.

One wonders if the corporate changes are in any way related to the recent PlayStation Network security issues and resulting downtime.

That's Ken Kutaragi, not Katuragi (in the body as well as the snippet). You'd think that with all of crazy Ken's doings, the name would've stuck well in the minds of most. :P

This means Sony will change its company name to Riiiiiiidge raceeeeerrr!

dang so we wont see him again at next E3s? i will miss his riiiiiidge racer haha

Umm Gamespot it's Ken Kutaragi not Katuragi.

Hirai moved to Food and Beverage Chairman that way that won't bother him about Hackers...

So Hirai got kicked upstairs. Should have done that years ago.

Someone's gonna do it, why not me? Here it comes... It's Riiiiiiiiidge Raaaaaaaacer!

oh boy!

SpeciaL K. Kaz is the man.

Kaz Hirai has been great for the Playstation division, he'll be a great chairman for SCEI :)