Ken Kutaragi gives a keynote at Tokyo Game Show 2024.
Ken Kutaragi gives a keynote at Tokyo Game Show 2024.
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Ken Kutaragi sees gaming leading the way to AI, real-time computing

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ken Kutaragi, father of the PlayStation, gave an opening keynote at the Tokyo Game Show where he said the game industry could grow by more than 10 times to 100 times as it kicks off the age of real-time computing.

Kutaragi did a fireside chat with Katsuhiko Hayashi of Kadokawa Game Linkage. Kutaragi said his dream is to see games continue on a progression that he has been talking about for decades. He spoke in Japanese and his words were translated on YouTube.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.