Ken Kutaragin parhaat

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1UP.com on vaivautunut keräämään kaikkien rakastaman Ken Kutaragin muutamia parhaita heittoja yhdelle sivulle:

Ken Kutaragi says:
"I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that." -- Nikkei Business, 01/05

Ken Kutaragi says:
"The PlayStation [3] is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine," -- Impress PC Watch, 05/05

Ken Kutaragi says:
"The Xbox 360 is more of an Xbox 1.5 than a next generation console." -- Impress PC Watch, 05/05

Ken Kutaragi says:
"[PS3 is] for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else." -- Toyo Keizai, 07/05

Ken Kutaragi says:
"My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out." -- CNN, 09/00

Ken Kutaragi says:
"You can communicate to a new cybercity," Ken Kutaragi, the visionary behind the PlayStation, tells Newsweek. "This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie 'The Matrix'? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into 'The Matrix'!" -- Newsweek, 02/00

Monta helmeä jäi varmasti uupumaan.

 

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Vastaus: Ken Kutaragin parhaat

Laitanpa tähän samalla sitten hyvän artikkelin Kutaragista:

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Quottaan imo parhaan osan, eli artikkelin lopetuksen. Ihan vaan Kenin "muistolle".

The sad part of this tale is that Kutaragi will almost certainly be remembered more for his Crazy Ken moments than for the immense, lasting impact which he had on the videogames industry. He risked his career time and time again to pursue his belief that Sony should enter this industry, and was willing to put his own neck on the line in pursuit of a dream - perhaps not the dream of mass-market gaming, but at the very least, the dream which ultimately led to mass market gaming being a reality.

Kutaragi is not only the Father of PlayStation, but the father of modern console gaming. His fall from grace has been rapid, shocking, and yet almost entirely of his own making; an engineer at heart, he was ill-equipped to deal with the executive world which he tried to conquer. However, his contribution to this industry, and this medium, is undeniable. It's a sad fact that many people are remembered for their big mistake, rather than their many achievements - Gunpei Yokoi is still perhaps best known for creating the Virtual Boy, rather than the Game And Watch, the Game Boy or the ubiquitous D-Pad.

Kutaragi will never be loved like Miyamoto; he leaves no legacy of instantly recognisable characters and franchises, and his showmanship was always outspoken and arrogant, rather than humble and playful. However, we can hope that in a few years time, when the dust settles on the controversy surrounding the PS3, Kutaragi will be remembered not for the Emotion Engine or jacking in to the Matrix; not for working overtime to afford a PS3 or for the Xbox 1.5; but for having the courage to fight Sony's own management to create a console called the PlayStation, without which many of us simply wouldn't be reading a games website, and for the countless hours of enjoyment people around the world have had with his creations.

Crazy Ken ounasi.

Artikkelista muuten käy myös ilmi mm. eräs seikka jota en tiennyt: Kutaragi suunnitteli SNESin äänipiirin.