Sony’s longtime PlayStation hardware boss is retiring on October 1 Masayasu Ito, 60, who led development of the PS4 and PS5, is retiring. I said before Bloomberg.
Senior Vice President Hideaki Nishino will still lead PlayStation platform responsibilities, including hardware engineering, security, product strategy and design, according to Sony communications director Kathy Liu. Nischino Promoted to this role He will report directly to SIE President Jim Ryan in March 2021. Lin takes over from current director Tao Ito as vice president and deputy director of Sony’s Japan operations. Sony has announced a change Short press release Today.
Ito originally joined Sony in 1986 before moving to the company’s PlayStation division in 2008 to lead PlayStation hardware development. Ito oversaw the engineering of the PlayStation 4, a very successful console Lifetime sales 117.2 million From March. The PS4 has reached a milestone Sell more games More than any other console in its history last year.
Ito was also responsible for the development of the PSVR headset, PS4 Pro and Sony’s latest PS5 console. Sony began work on the PS5 in 2015, and Ito and his team spent five years designing and developing the console. That’s it Details of the PS5 development process Ahead of the console’s launch in 2020, he revealed that Sony prefers a “thoughtful and beautifully designed architecture” within the console, focusing on reducing noise levels and improving the PS5’s cooling performance.
When the PS5 is a file The largest gaming console in modern historySony has interfered in recent reviews. Sonny quietly released a file The PS5 was revamped last month, reduced weight by 13 percent compared to the original launch model. The new PS5 model comes as Sony raises the price of its PS5 console outside the US. Sony has increased the price of the PS5 In UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico and Canada. Prices rose 10 percent in Europe, 21 percent in Japan and about 6 percent in the UK as inflation affects Sony’s gaming business.
Sony first released the PS3 in 2006, followed by the PS4 seven years later in 2013 and the PS5 seven years later in 2020. That’s because it took Sony five years to plan and design the PS5 when the seven-year pattern applies. As for the next generation of PlayStation (2027?), Sony may enter the early planning stages of a new PlayStation generation led by a new hardware chief.
Correction, September 6 at 12:39pm ET: An earlier version of this story stated that Ito’s successor, Lin Tao, would be in charge of future PlayStation generations, and Sony said that responsibility continues under Senior Vice President Hideki Nishino. We apologize for the mistake.