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Former PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai used to ignore orders from Sony bosses, he reveals - Eurogamer.net
Publisher description: Former PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai had a clever solution to navigating the bureaucracy of Sony's corporate world in the early 2000s.
NewsAPI | Oct 13, 2026 | Sherif Saed
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"What the headquarters says is irrelevant. " Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai, who was the president of PlayStation from 2007 to 2012, apparently didn't pay much attention to orders he received from Sony's top brass. We are PlayStation,'" Hirai revealed, reportedly while laughing. He took over shortly after the launch of the PlayStation 3, the rocky launch of the PlayStation Vita, and the infamous PlayStation outage in 2011.
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