Game Over For PS3 Creator

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Ken Kutaragi, the inventor of the PS3 is dead. To Sony, that is.

News of his "retirement" from the company precedes an upcoming report where the company will announce that its gaming division lost more than 2 billion dollars. Whoopsie.

The company's decision to include the proprietary next-generation “blu-ray” player resulted in a $599 price tag for the next-gen console. Depending on which numbers you believe—Sony lost between 2 and 3 hundred dollars on every PS3 unit it produced, helping to kill both the console and the stereotype that all Japanese are wonderful business people.

Adding to the system’s woes were early shortages of critical equipment and a very strong showings from Nintendo’s imaginative and inexpensive Wii.

Ken was always a foreward thinking man—and at the time of his departure from Sony he was thinking three flops into the future:

"As a matter of course, I have the vision of Playstation 4, 5 and 6, which will merge into the network."
There's no telling how much you probably wouldn't have spent to not own one of those pricey future machines.

Ken leaves Sony with great memories of the PS2, the costly question mark that is the PS3 and presumably his own bloody pinky in a folded up handkerchief.

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