The Financial Times reports that Ken Kutaragi, Sony’s brains behind the PlayStation series of game consoles, has been kicked upstairs and that Sony Computer Entertainment is undergoing a management shuffle. In corporate-speak, the changes are described as strengthening SCE’s position on a go-forward basis, restructuring internal lines of communication in a proactive manner, as well as empowering SCE management to apply best-of-breed paradigms to provide added value while thinking outside the box … or something like that.

A direct consequence of the above announcement is that further development of the next-gen Sony PlayStation 4 game console has been suspended. However, Sony has been kind enough to forward an image of a prototype PS4, shown attached.

Sony sidelines PS3 mastermind Kutaragi - Financial Times, December 1 2006

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