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Sony’s Shittest Golden Week Ever

This week in Japan is “Golden Week”, a consecutive string of national holidays. While companies and the stock markets are closed, the entire country is on holidays. Everyone, it seems, except Sony.


May 2, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Shows That Saying "I’m Sorry" Isn’t Enough In Japan

This Sunday, as the Golden Week holidays began in Japan, Sony execs Kazuo Hirai, Shinji Hasejima and Shiro Kambe answered reporters’ questions about the PSN breach that put the private details of over 70 million gamers at risk. The execs didn’t just apologise for the breach, but bowed for seven seconds.


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Sony Considers Reimbursing Credit Card Replacement Costs In Light Of Data Breach

In this morning’s news conference, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kazuo Hirai said the company would consider covering costs associated with reissuing credit cards to PlayStation Network subscribers who feel their accounts have been compromised by the massive data breach of April 20.


May 1, 2011
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What Do You Want To Hear From Sony?

Early in the morning on the U.S. east coast, Kazuo Hirai will address the devastating outage of and loss of customer data from the PlayStation Network. Hirai’s participation itself sends a message. To investors, he is Sony’s second-in-command. To gamers, he’s one of PlayStation’s principal figures, if not its face for the past five years.


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Kaz Hirai To Address PSN Breach In News Conference Tomorrow

Kazuo Hirai, Sony Corp.’s second-in-command, in line to become its CEO, will brief the media on the catastrophic security breach in the PlayStation Network. The news conference will be held at 1 a.m. EDT (2 p.m. in Japan). Hirai will discuss Sony’s investigation of the breach, its information management system, and the schedule for bringing PSN back online, Sony said in a news release today.


April 5, 2011
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PlayStation Users Giving Big Money To Japan Earthquake Relief

As of March 31, PlayStation users worldwide have donated US$1.318 million to the earthquake relief efforts. “While we continue to make every effort to help the recovery of the affected communities in the region,” Kazuo Hirai, Sony Computer Entertainment honcho, said in an official release, “I would like to express our gratitude to every single PlayStation user across the world who made a contribution to the effort.”


March 10, 2011
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PlayStation Boss, You Just Got Yourself A Promotion

Having “successfully led the turnaround of the games business”, PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has (as expected) just been moved one step closer to the top job at Sony Corporation when current CEO Sir Howard Stringer moves on.


February 18, 2011
PlayStation

The PlayStation 4 Is Still Pie In The Sky Talk

The PlayStation 3 came out in 2006. That doesn’t matter, people want to know about the PlayStation 4. Thing is, Sony’s still focusing on the PS3. Oh, and the NGP.


February 11, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Is Also Competing Against Booze, You Know

This month, Nintendo is launching a new gaming portable, the 3DS. Sony also has a new, still forthcoming portable the NGP. How is Sony going to compete?


January 27, 2011
News

The PSP 2 Revealed

The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation Portable at an event in Tokyo today, giving us our first official look at the PlayStation maker’s next bold foray into handheld gaming. Here are the first details.