{"id":16093,"date":"2022-09-06T21:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T20:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/playstation-5-and-ps4-lead-engineer-masayasu-ito-is-retiring-from-sony\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T20:43:49","slug":"playstation-5-and-ps4-lead-engineer-masayasu-ito-is-retiring-from-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/playstation-5-and-ps4-lead-engineer-masayasu-ito-is-retiring-from-sony\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 5 and PS4 lead engineer Masayasu Ito is retiring from Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nMasayasu Ito – Sony Interactive Entertainment’s executive vice president of hardware engineering and operation, as well as lead engineer on both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 – is retiring on 1st October after 36 years with the company.\n<\/p>\n

\nIto first joined Sony in 1986, where he initially worked on in-car audio equipment before joining the PlayStation division in 2000 to lead hardware engineering. Here, Ito oversaw the development of numerous key PlayStation products, including the PS3, the hugely successful PS4 – which went on to sell over 117 million units – and, starting in 2015, the PlayStation 5.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlongside Sony’s flagship consoles, Ito also had a hand in many other notable PlayStation hardware releases, having created of the likes of the PSP, PS4 Pro, and PSVR headset.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

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