THE FATHER Of Playstation
It’s hard to think of a time when Sony wasn’t a major player in the video games scene, but back in the early ’90s, the Japanese electronics manufacturer was seen as the leader in Televisions and portable music players. The main players in the gaming scene then were Nintendo and Sega and no one would’ve even considered Sony entering that space. Yet in 1994, the PlayStation entered a crowded market and went on to change the gaming landscape to what it is today. The birth of one of the strongest gaming legacies can be traced back to the determination of one man, Ken Kutaragi, a promising young engineer that refused to give up on the dream of Sony’s very first console. This is the story of the man famously known as “The Father of PlayStation”.
The Printer’s Son
Born in Tokyo in 1950, Kutaragi is the son of a businessman from the Japanese island of Kyushu who came to Japan's
