Ken Kutaragi has been chosen by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences to receive the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, and will receive the honor on February 7th. Aged 56, the now retired Kutargi was former president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, and a stalwart figure in creating and launching the Playstation.

He also earned quite the reputation as a renegade, his alarmingly zealous plans for the PS3 driving its production costs over-budget without the knowledge of CEO Howard Stringer. Nonetheless, if it weren’t for this mastermind behind the Playstation, the videogame landscape as we know it today would be barren indeed. According to AIAS president Joseph Olin, “his contributions have clearly set new standards for developers, publishers and consumers worldwide.”

via Destructoid

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