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Once upon a time, Sony ruled Japan. Those days are over. Don't believe me? Just look at how the Japanese media keeps turning the Tokyo-based electronics maker into a punching bag. More »
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Today, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported that Sony is axing 6 percent of its global workforce—approximately 10,000 individuals—by the end of the year. More »
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It was wildly thought that Howard Stringer, a foreigner, was brought in to fire a bunch of people at Sony. Japanese companies traditionally bring in outsiders to fire folks, and Stringer, a foreigner, was even that further removed from the old boys' network. More »
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Today, Sony announced its recent financials, and the Tokyo-based electronics giant is hemorrhaging money. More »
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As has been expected for a while now, Sir Howard Stringer's replacement as President and CEO of Sony Corporation when he steps down in June will be Kaz Hirai, a long-time champion of the company's PlayStation brand. More »
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Sony's looking to expand its PlayStation game offerings to other mobile devices, Sony Computer Entertainment chief Kaz Hirai told a conference in Hong Kong on Friday. More »
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While Sony hasn't yet officially announced the PS4, no doubt it's coming. The PlayStation 3 will get a successor. According to a "trusted source", work has started on PlayStation 4 games. More »
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Tokyo Game Show 2011 is... GO!!! Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is kicking it off with its pre-TGS keynote, talking about all things PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Network. Kotaku is in the house, keeping an eye on what Sony execs have to say about the future of PlayStation. More »
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The Sony PlayStation Network is back online, but it was hacked back in April. Sony's servers were breached and over seventy million accounts were compromised. Sony still doesn't seem to be any closer to nabbing the individuals who carried out the attack. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5810213&view=rss&microfeed=true In a Reuters interview, Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kazuo Hirai said that he hoped the PS Vita would turn a profit within the next three years. He also added that wants the Vita to outsell the PSP. [Reuters] More »
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Sony is weighing whether to offer a reward for information on the hackers behind the massive PlayStation Network outage, now in its 18th day, CNET reports. Its potential amount was not mentioned. More »
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This week in Japan is "Golden Week", a consecutive string of national holidays. While companies and the stock markets are closed, the entire country is on vacation. Everyone, it seems, except Sony. More »
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This Sunday, as the Golden Week holidays began in Japan, Sony execs Kazuo Hirai, Shinji Hasejima and Shiro Kambe answered reporters' questions about the PSN breach that put the private details of over 70 million gamers at risk. The execs didn't just apologize for the breach, but bowed for seven seconds. More »
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In this morning's news conference, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kazuo Hirai said the company would consider covering costs associated with reissuing credit cards to PlayStation Network subscribers who feel their accounts have been compromised by the massive data breach of April 20. More »
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Early in the morning on the U.S. east coast, Kazuo Hirai will address the devastating outage of and loss of customer data from the PlayStation Network. Hirai's participation itself sends a message. To investors, he is Sony's second-in-command. To gamers, he's one of PlayStation's principal figures, if not its face for the past five years. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797355&view=rss&microfeed=true Kazuo Hirai, Sony Corp.'s second-in-command, in line to become its CEO, will brief the media on the catastrophic security breach in the PlayStation Network. The news conference will be held at 1 a.m. EDT (2 p.m. in Japan). Hirai will discuss Sony's investigation of the breach, its information management system, and the schedule for bringing PSN back online, Sony said in a news release today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797331&view=rss&microfeed=true As of March 31, PlayStation users worldwide have donated US$1.318 million to the earthquake relief efforts. "While we continue to make every effort to help the recovery of the affected communities in the region," Kazuo Hirai, Sony Computer Entertainment honcho, said in an official release, "I would like to express our gratitude to every single PlayStation user across the world who made a contribution to the effort." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5788940&view=rss&microfeed=true Having "successfully led the turnaround of the games business", PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has (as expected) just been moved one step closer to the top job at Sony Corporation when current CEO Sir Howard Stringer moves on. More »
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The PlayStation 3 came out in 2006. That doesn't matter, people want to know about the PlayStation 4. Thing is, Sony's still focusing on the PS3. Oh, and the NGP. More »
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This month, Nintendo is launching a new gaming portable, the 3DS. Sony also has a new, still forthcoming portable the NGP. How is Sony going to compete? More »
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The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation Portable at an event in Tokyo today, our first official look at the PlayStation maker's next foray into handheld gaming, the NGP or "Next Generation Portable." First details below. More »
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Right now, at least. But are things looking up for 2011? More »
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This year is apparently being pretty good for Sony. That means more folks are taking the plunge and picking up PS3s. What does that mean? More »
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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 »
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According to a report on Bloomberg, Sony is looking at taking the job of company president away from current CEO Sir Howard Stringer, with one of the possible candidates for that role being PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai. More »
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Ah, the PSPgo. Right idea, wrong time, and definitely wrong price. More »
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The PlayStation 3 was released in 2006. Sony has famously said the console will have a ten year console life. By that math, we can expect the PlayStation 4 sometime after 2016. But can we expect a digital-download-only console? More »
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The people who make the PlayStation have received their share of flak for creating systems that were tougher to make games for than their competitors. That's something PlayStation big boss Kaz Hirai wants to change. More »
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Nintendo caused quite a stir at the E3 gaming expo with its glasses-free Nintendo 3DS. In an interview with Japan's Sankei, Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai had this to say about the glasses-free 3D tech: More »
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Last week, Sony provided more details about its plan to make the PlayStation Network an all-encompassing online service. The service is set to kick off next year, and give the brand a boast. More »
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Since the console launched in 2006 until the official announcement of the new, slimmer machine, the PS3 has been written in the same font used for Sony's Spider-Man 3 movie. More »
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The hardware business is not a profitable business. Don't believe us, just ask Sony. More »
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Sony's motion controller has neither a name nor a finalised form. Which means, yeah, it's still a work in progress. And that means it won't be out until, oh, Spring 2010. More »
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Current Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Kaz Hirai, will be giving the keynote at this year's Tokyo Game Show. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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You can usually count on a PlayStation 3 to be a slick, dependable piece of hardware. PlayStation executives...less so. Some like to shoot their mouths off from time to time. But this quote from Kaz Hirai stopped me dead in my tracks. More »
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Time has passed, and it's time to look back. Does Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai have any regrets? More »
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Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai is on a mission. A mission to make money for Sony's PlayStation division. More »
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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 »
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