<![CDATA[Kotaku: Howard Stringer]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Howard Stringer]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/howard stringer http://kotaku.com/tag/howard stringer <![CDATA[Could the Father of the PlayStation Run Sony?]]> Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai seemed like a logical choice to replace Howard Stringer. But with Hirai lacking in experience outside gaming, Sony's old guard could actually select someone with a deep understanding of electronics—namely Ken Kutaragi. [東洋経済] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5869593&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Says PSN has Added 3 Million Users Since Attack]]> Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony, said at a Berlin electronics show that the PlayStation Network has recovered from this spring's attack and 23-day outage by adding 3 million new users in the three months since. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5836746&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony: 90 Percent of PSN Users Have Returned]]> At the Sony shareholders meeting today, the company said that 90 percent of PSN users have returned since the service was hacked. Have you? [AV Watch Impress via はちま起稿] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5816124&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Boss Defends Week-long Wait in Notifying PlayStation Network Customers of Breach]]> Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, sounded less apologetic and more prickly when asked today about the PlayStation maker's slowness in informing PlayStation Network and Qriocity subscribers of an attack on the company's network. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802880&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony CEO Apologizes To PlayStation Customers for 'Inconvenience and Concern' Over PSN Attack]]> Howard Stringer, the man at the very top of Sony, has released an open letter to customers today, joining PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai in officially apologizing for the "inconvenience and concern" caused by an attack on the company's PlayStation Network. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5799160&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Former Sony Brass Not Hip To A Foreigner Running The Show]]> Howard Stringer is the bossman at Sony, running the show. He's not Japanese, but a Welsh-born American. And according to one former Sony exec, a foreigner never should have run the company. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5712859&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Shows Its Faith In 3D]]> The people behind the PlayStation have been proudly promoting their 3D wares throughout the year, but today at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, Sony brought some of its biggest guns, as executives presented its new technology push. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5559558&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Report: Sony To Ship 3D TVs, 3D-Ready PS3 Games]]> The PlayStation company is putting its electronics might behind 3D television technology, with Sony expected to start selling fancy three-dimensional displays next year—with 3D PlayStation 3 games being readied to capitalize on the technology. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5350987&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[BioWare: Activision's PS3 Comment Is "Silly"]]> After Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed his displeasure at Sony for not announcing a price cut, he came back a few weeks later threatening to "stop supporting" the console. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5314061&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Boss Getting Fed Up With People Telling Him The PS3 Is Too Expensive]]> Few weeks back, Activision boss Bobby Kotick had some strong words to say about the price of the PS3. Today, Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer has some strong words for people bugging him about a PS3 price cut. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5309737&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony's Expanded PlayStation Network May Debut Spring 2010]]> Sony CEO Howard Stringer and his underlings have been teasing an expanded, product line-wide PlayStation Network for years. That broader service, leaping from the PSP and PlayStation 3 to Sony branded televisions and other gadgets, might hit next year. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5302651&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony CEO Approved By Sony Board of Directors]]> The Sony Board of Directors have approved 15 directors, including American Howard Stringer. Besides acting as chairman and chief executive, Stringer is taking an another title — president — as announced last February. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5299264&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PlayStation Boss Heading New Sony Division]]> Major changes are going down at Sony. President Ryoji Chubachi is stepping down, and Sony CEO Howard Stringer will take over Chubachi's role as president. The company's PlayStation boss has a new role, too. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5161366&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Revises Earnings Forecast, Game Revenue Down]]> Sony has announced a revision of its consolidated forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. How's the gaming division doing? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5136766&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony To Cut 2,000 Employees, Kill TV Plants In Japan]]> Sony head honcho Howard Stringer will announce on Thursday plans to eliminate 2,000 full-time jobs and close two television manufacturing plants in the face of a projected $1.1 billion loss, reports Japan's Nikkei Daily. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5136448&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Boss: Wii Took Our Market, But It's OK]]> Speaking with German site Welt Online, Sony President Sir Howard Stringer has spoken at length on the PlayStation 3. On how it's probably not going to see a price-cut in 2008, on how it cost more money to develop than they'll ever make back in his lifetime, on how game sales will offset that loss. But most interesting of his comments come when asked to compare Nintendo's top-selling Wii to the PS3, where he replies: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5043315&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Boss Sees Wii As "Expensive Niche"]]> Sony boss Howard Stringer loves the PS3. Has to. But the Wii? Sony don't make the Wii. So all bets are off, and Sir Howard can hate on it to his heart's content. Speaking in Sun Valley, Idaho last week, Stringer said of Nintendo's console: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5024768&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stringer: PS3 No Longer On "Life Support"]]> Sony's "climbing up the mountain," said Sony Corporation CEO Howard Stringer at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital D6 event earlier today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011436&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[HD DVD Death Doesn't Necessarily Mean Sony Win]]> HD DVD's demise means Sony's in the clear? Not so fast! Put away those champagne bottles! Bloomberg's here to shit on Sony's party, pointing out that all this doesn't mean smooth sailing by a damn sight. There are 176 companies in the Blu-ray Disc Association, including Sony competitors Samsung and Panasonic. They're not necessarily buddies! They're competing. This is business, not summer camp! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359010&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Howard Stringer Not Sold On In-Game Ads]]> In-game advertising seems like an easy way to turn a buck, right? Wrong. While advertising is established in magazines and television, games are a great unknown. Activision Blizzard honcho Bobby Kotick says he wouldn't go in that direction himself. "It's early days," according to Kotick. Sony bossman Howard Stringer also remains unconvinced. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=350826&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The PS3 Is "Out Of The Woods"]]> As CEO, Sir Howard Stringer has been front and center during the PS3's difficult year of rearing. But now things are looking up, especially since Sony thinks that it will soon defeat the Xbox 360 in the PAL markets. And according to Stringer:
PS3 has now gone past XBox [sic] on the Christmas market. It's moving into its own as it gets into higher bandwidth...PS3 is out of the woods and beginning to hold its own.
And with a tear, Stringer said farewell to the PS3, left only with fond memories of when it suckled his bosom in the night...the singular treatment to stop the PlayStation's tears. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=349686&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stringer: PS3 Games Infinitely More Fun, Exciting Than The Wii's]]> Give Howard Stringer a break. He's not only forced to eat the company's dog food and toe the company line, he's probably only handled a PlayStation controller a half-dozen times, and more than likely missed out on years of graphical and gameplay advances. That's whey he might be forgiven for outlandish claims, such as "The PlayStation 3 will come into its own because its [high-end games] are infinitely more fun, demanding and exciting" in comparison to what the Wii has to offer. He's a busy man! He doesn't have time to go beyond a demo of Uncharted or a look at Rayman's Raving Rabbids. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333753&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Selling 200K PS3s A Week In Europe (But May Miss Targets)]]> Sir Howard Stringer, Lord of Sony, revealed last night to Japanese press his intentions to connect the PlayStation 3 with the company's other devices, including televisions, the PSP and mobile devices. Sure, Stringer hinted at such a plan in the past, but now he's really taking the whole thing seriously. According to Bloomberg, analysts have expressed doubt about the integrated network, given that PS3 sales are, well, they're not Wii sales. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=332569&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Boss Says PS3 "Momentum" On Par With PS2]]> The main man at Sony, Sir Howard Stringer, finds the current state of the PlayStation 3 simply peachy. In fact, Stringer thinks the Blu-ray ready PS3 could match the PlayStation 2 in terms of success, according to an e-mail interview with the Hollywood Reporter. He wrote that Sony's price drop and more aggressive marketing tactics were "planned by the PlayStation group, but I think this momentum now — particularly the number of games coming out, including our own as well as third-party — is the same as it was with PlayStation 2." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=325023&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Goes Trademark Crazy]]> Sony Computer Entertainment went a bit nutty recently at the US Patent and Trademark Office, with its European division registering new trademarks for unannounced software under the names Ember, SkyBlue, Carriage Return, Race Day, and Strings Attached. These registrants coincide with a number of products already released or announced, including PlayStation Network and PlayStation Eye games Snakeball, Operation Creature Feature, Super Rub'A'Dub and Super Stardust. Unfortunately, the descriptions of the goods and services for each, including helpful hints like "computer games apparatus adapted for use with an external display screen or monitor" don't hint at what these products may be. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314165&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony to Sell PS3 "Cell" Facility to Toshiba]]> Starting March 2008, Toshiba is the proud new owner of Sony's microprocessor and graphic chip production facilities. Toshiba, Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment will set up a joint venture to run the Nagasaki "Cell" microprocessor output plant next April. The price hasn't been set yet, but it's likely to be over US $858 million. Previously, Sony said it planned to cut back on chip spending and possibly might not produce advanced 45-nanometer "Cell" chips. Under this new partnership, Toshiba and Sony will cooperate in producing 45-nm "Cell" chips. This is the last year of CEO Howard Stringer's aggressive plan to cut non-core business. Sony spokesperson Daichi Yamafuji assures that gaming consoles are still one of Sony's core businesses. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312257&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony Boss Hints At Super PlayStation Network]]> According to a report from the Financial Times, Sony megaboss Howard Stringer has lofty goals for the PlayStation Network. Further cementing rumored plans for a video and music download service, Stringer talked about the network going "beyond" the PSP and PLAYSTATION 3, integrating televisions and other unspecified devices with PlayStation Network compatibility. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=311148&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[WSJ: Sony Readying Download Service To Challenge Apple]]> The Wall Street Journal writes today that Sony is planning to go head-to-head with Apple's movie and television download iTunes service, readying its own internet enabled video store. The report indicates that Sony will capitalize on the technology built into the PLAYSTATION 3, PSP and Bravia televisions to carve out a slice of the video download market. Sony won't, however, put its focus on music sales, nothing short of admitting defeat to iTunes prowess with digital music downloads. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296305&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stringer: PS3 Vital To Sony's Future]]> Sir Howard Stringer, president and CEO of the Sony Corporation, told some 7000 investors that he will see the company "shift from recovery to profitable growth" referring to the PLAYSTATION 3 as a "key driver" for the future, the Associated Press reports. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=271098&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PlayStation Biz May Post $2 Billion Loss]]> According to Bloomberg's estimate, based on information from financial analysts, Sony's games division may post up to a record-breaking 245 billion yen loss for its financial year. That's just over $2 billion (USD) and largely a result of a billion dollar loss from this most recent quarter, much of it tied to the PLAYSTATION 3. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=260674&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PLAYSTATION 3 Sells 800K To The Euros, Wins "Perception Wars"]]> Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, told journalists at the Tokyo premiere of the company's Spider-Man 3 that the PLAYSTATION 3 is "close to an 800,000" sell-through in the European market. Sony previously revealed that, during the March launch, they'd readied some 1 million units for the PAL regions. (Hurry! Snap one up before they're gone!) More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=253014&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stringer Says Euro PS3 Launch Is "April"]]>
In a recent interview with CNET, Sony CEO Howard Stringer let this brainfart rip: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=229212&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stringer: "PS3 Tested, Creative Success"]]>
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has spoken out about the blight of financial troubles facing the electronics powerhouse. With profits dropping, Stringer noted that "we have to generate some excitement and profits from elsewhere in the company to offset the performance of PLAYSTATION 3." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=210968&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Howard Stringer: "PS3 Purchasers Paying For Potential."]]>
Quoth Sony CEO Howard Stringer: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183377&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Stringer Tells Sony Shareholders to Chill]]> Worried about his gig running the S.S. Sony, captain Howard Stringer met with company shareholders and tried to alleviated concerns that Sony is effed beyond belief. According to site Next-Genartion, the bossman said, "We have entered a period of re-emergence." Continuing, Stringer said: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=182571&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sony CEO Skirts PS3 Pricing]]> Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, talked PS3 with The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg. The company has seen better days and is looking to the Welsh-born Stringer to turn things around. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=178926&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PS3 Delay Official]]> Variety is reporting that the Playstation 3 will be delayed as Sony "fine tunes the chips," in a story about the future of Sony that features a lengthy interview with Howard Stringer. More »
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