The PS4 and PS5’s Chief Hardware Architect Is Leaving Sony Next Month

He may not have as recognizable a reputation as company executives from corporations like Apple and Microsoft, however subsequent month, Sony will be saying goodbye to Masayasu Ito, who led the hardware development on the PS4, the PS5, and among the firm’s different notable gaming units.

As reported by Bloomberg and introduced by Sony in an incredibly brief press release shared this morning, Masayasu Ito, the Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Operation and consultant director of Sony Interactive Entertainment, can be formally retiring on October 1 on the age of 60. Ito first joined Sony again in 1986 and started his profession with the corporate in its in-car audio division, however finally transitioned to the corporate’s console division in 2000, across the time as the PlayStation 2 debut.

Ito would go on to steer the {hardware} growth for the PlayStation 4, the upgraded PlayStation 4 Pro three years later (which used a quicker processor and improved graphics capabilities to allow gaming at 4K resolutions), in addition to the PlayStation 5, which the corporate struggled to fabricate and get into the fingers of avid gamers throughout the onset of the pandemic because of its customized parts equipped by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Ito was additionally liable for the {hardware} design of the PlayStation Portable: Sony’s noble however unsuccessful try and topple Nintendo’s dominance within the handheld gaming market, in addition to the PSVR headset, which debuted in late 2016.

Masayasu Ito can be changed by the present director and deputy president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Lin Tao. Ito will proceed to help Sony in an govt adviser position till March 2023.

“Our team values a well thought out, beautifully designed architecture,” Ito wrote of the engineering philosophy behind the Playstation. “Inside the console is an internal structure looking neat and tidy.”