Lead PlayStation architect Masayasu Ito is leaving Sony after 36 years
Sony Interactive Entertainment — the branch of the company responsible for its gaming consoles and accessories — is losing one of the main architects. The company has confirmed tothat Masayasu Ito, who led the development of the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5, is leaving his role on October 1st. Ito has been with Sony for 36 years, joining the company way back in 1986 and starting with the development of in-car audio equipment those first years.
He transferred to the console division in 2000, and he's had a hand in developing Sony's PlayStation devices since then, including the PS Portable and the PS4 Pro. He eventually became the Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Operation and representative director of Sony Interactive Entertainment. While Sony didn't elaborate on why Ito is leaving in itsthat the 60-year-old executive is retiring.
Over the past few of decades, he represented Sony in interviews and other public appearances concerning the PlayStation. Heabout the PlayStation Eye camera for the PS4 back in 2013 and told us in the same year that the company was
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