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    Ken Kutaragi: Misunderstood or Just Nuts?

    By smizek2, 6:28 AM on Fri Jul 8 2005, 6,750 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)

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    You would think being an important part of video game history would allow Ken Kutaragi a little eccentricity.

    As president of Sony Computer Entertainment Kutaragi has pushed the company into the video game industry and helped its products to be the amazing successes that they are.

    As of late, his achievements seem to have gone to his head, causing him to spout impossible exaggerations about the PS2 and PS3.

    He's also taken up shit-talking Microsoft as if he were posting on a messageboard.

    Here are a sample of my favorite Kutaragi quotes. See if you can guess which two are my lunacy, not his.

    • "Beating us for a short moment is like accidentally winning a point from a Shihan (Karate master), and Microsoft is still not a black belt. Just like with their operating systems, they might come out with something good around the third generation of their release."

    • "I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that."

    • "Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun."

    • "With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment."

    • PS3 is "for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else."

    • "The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline."

    • "Microsoft is trailing behind us, but they are not a threat. They are good at improving [on products], but we will be advancing to the next level with revolutionary technology."

    • "We're not going to equip [the PS3 with] a HDD by default, because no matter how much [capacity] we put in it, it won't be enough."

    Answers after the jump.

    "Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun." and "The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline." were the fakes.

    Thanks for playing along with my lame sense of humor!

    The Kraziness of Ken Kutaragi

    -SM

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