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Ken Kutaragi

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Ken Kutaragi

b. 1950

Japanese engineering technologist and businessman (born 1950)

Postwar

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Birth

1950 August 8, 1950 →

Biography

Ken Kutaragi is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman, currently president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. Formerly the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game division of Sony, Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation" having overseen the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs until departing the company in 2007, shortly after the PlayStation 3 was released.

Source: Wikipedia · Compiled March 2026 · AI-summarized

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1950
Birth

Japanese businessman, created PlayStation

August 8 →

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