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Masayasu Ito to resign as Sony Interactive Entertainment representative director and deputy president​

Lin Tao to replace Ito.

Masayasu Ito will resign as representative director and deputy president of Sony Interactive Entertainment on October 1, and current director and deputy president Lin Tao will replace Ito, the company announced.

Kiichiro Urata, the head of Japan Asia partner development and relations for Sony Interactive Entertainment, will also be appointed company director.
Ito oversaw hardware engineering and operations for Sony Interactive Entertainment, and played an integral role in the planning of various PlayStation hardware over the years, including PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR. He has worked for Sony Interactive Entertainment since April 2008, and before that at Sony Corporation for nearly 11 years.

According to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter, Ito’s resignation is due to reaching retirement age, and he will simultaneously resign from Sony Group as a whole. (Update 1:23 a.m.: A Sony representative has confirmed to Bloomberg that Ito’s retirement is due to his age.)

Source: Gematsu

 

[Max_Po]

who? ....

 

[Bullet Club]

who? ....

Masayasu Ito

Mr. Sony

The Playstation Kid

I don't who he is either.

 

[Jennings]

Retirement age, what a concept. I wish more retirement-aged people would retire. Well, I guess I wish most of them could retire. But it's the ones that can but choose to stay put in ceiling positions that really punch my balls.

Get out of the way.

 

[ElCasual]

Please, Jim Ryan next.

 

[Teslerum]

Retirement age, what a concept. I wish more retirement-aged people would retire. Well, I guess I wish most of them could retire. But it's the ones that can but choose to stay put in ceiling positions that really punch my balls.

Get out of the way.

Spoken like someone that will stay till he’s 80/dead.

 

[kyliethicc]

good for him, what a chad

 

[Moses85]

Give it to me instead

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Flexing that Balenciaga dress, noice.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Let's go Lin Tao. Drop the price on ps5 back down and whip Jimmy's butt.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Flexing that Balenciaga dress, noice.

VP of Finance should not oversee HW engineering, let’s hope they reshuffle that or overseeing is a light touch.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Let's go Lin Tao. Drop the price on ps5 back down and whip Jimmy's butt.

You are getting your dominatrix fantasies get the best of you mate . VP of finance in this role… well, it is likely the price increase was her idea hehe.

 

[DenchDeckard]

You are getting your dominatrice fantasies get the best of you mate . VP of finance in this role… well, it is likely the price increase was her idea hehe.

Damn, you caught me....lol she probably looks great in pvc....

 

[supernova8]

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It says Masayasu Ito is resigning "due to retirement age" but he only took up the representative director and deputy president role in April 2021 (ie less than 2 years ago). Plus there are loads of company directors (especially in Japan) who don't retire for fuckinggg everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I dunno seems a bit odd that he'd be promoted (under Kodera) only to almost immediately retire under Ryan.

 

[Nankatsu]

Flexing that Balenciaga dress, noice.

Her face reads like:

You liked that PS5 price increase? We can go higher.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Bring back Kaz Harai and Jack Tretton.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

He will be replaced by the Capcom guy hired last year btw.

 

[CeeJay]

Her face reads like:

You liked that PS5 price increase? We can go higher.

Hope she doesn't read GAF, plenty of people here were really happy with the price rise!

 

[SSfox]

This guy is a legend, wish him best.

 

[lh032]

He will be replaced by the Capcom guy hired last year btw.

Capcom acquisition confirmed!!!!