"Taking several years with several thousand people… It's almost impossible" – PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi on the current state of gaming
Middlesbrough is probably the last place we expected to meet Ken Kutaragi, widely known as the father of the PlayStation. He admits he hadn't heard of the northern UK town before he was invited here to give a talk at the second Game Republic New Horizons event on October 15. Read more
Middlesbrough, a small town in northern UK, is an unlikely place to meet Ken Kutaragi, the man often referred to as the father of PlayStation. Kutaragi admits he hadn't heard of the town before being invited to give a talk at the Game Republic New Horizons event on October 15. Despite its strange nature, Kutaragi is impressed by Middlesbrough's once industrial past and its growing tech sector, home to studios such as Double Eleven, Dink, and Behaviour Interactive. He describes it as becoming an exciting new industry, although not yet fully realized.
Kutaragi was instrumental in the development of the original PlayStation and later became CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment before stepping down in 2007. Since then, he has led Cyber AI Entertainment and Ascent Robotics and served as the dean of the Faculty of Information Science at the University of Kindai. Due to his busy schedule, he no longer has time to play video games.
While he doesn't have high hopes for PlayStation's future, Kutaragi believes the games industry as a whole is undergoing a paradigm shift. He considers the idea of creating games with several thousand people and significant financial investment to be meaningless and almost impossible. His belief is that communication will be the best form of entertainment, and he envisions a future where humans interact with AI personalities.
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