Sony Computer Entertainment Chief Technical Officer, Izumi Kawanishi, has allegedly moved on from the company following a series of internal discrepancies with SCE President, Kaz Hirai.
Kawanishi had previously worked with the company in a hardware capacity for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, in addition to his duties within the firm’s Network System Development Section, R&D Division.
However, according to reports from Kotaku insiders, Kawanishi has recently left SCE and gone on to join Sony Corporation. The report reads as follows:
“There was a little bit of a fight internally between Kawanishi-san and Kaz Hirai since SCEI has been pushing the PS3 as just a game console.”
It is assumed that Kawanishi had been in favour of marketing the console as a multimedia entertainment device, whereas Hirai’s philosophy, as stated, has clearly focused on its abilities as a videogames console in recent months.
Source: Kotaku