Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation and the Visionaries Who Conquered the World of Video Games

by Reiji Asakura

"I wanted to prove that even regular company employeesno, especially regular company employeescould build a venture of this scale with superb technology, superb concepts, and superb colleagues."Ken Kutaragi, "The Father of the Sony PlayStation". Here, for the first time ever, is the authorized story of Ken Kutaragi, the vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment whose successful campaign to dominate the gaming industry with 1994's PlayStation has become the stuff of modern business and technological legend. A priceless analysis of technical, marketing, and over-all business strategies and a riveting saga of ambition, determination, and extraordinary vision, Revolutionaries at Sony is a rare and enthralling true-life account that reads like a work of masterful suspense fiction.

Genres: Nonfiction, Video Games, Technology, Business

Hardcover

First published May 1, 2000

Reviews

[Craig Schuemann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an authorized telling of the starting days of the PlayStation and Kutaragi-sans career trajectory within Sony. When read from that framing, I honestly think this is a neat little piece of history. Have to take things with a grain of salt given the positive retelling of stories but there’s a ton of little nuggets about the specific ins-and-outs of how the console came to be made from the circuitry to the software development that I found fascinating. If you’re looking for an easy read through the early years of PlayStation I’d give this a read!

[Kadir Doğan · Rating 2 out of 5]

türkçe çevirisi berbat & kitap da teknik açıdan çok zayıf. nerdlerden çok pazarlamacılar mı hedef alınmış nedir bilemedim.