Shinichi Okamoto is an adviser on the Kryptomon NFT game.
Shinichi Okamoto is an adviser on the Kryptomon NFT game.
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Shinichi Okamoto interview — Former PlayStation CTO weighs in on NFT games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

Many years ago, before the launch of the PlayStation 3, I went to a dinner event and sat next Shinichi Okamoto, who was then the chief technology officer for PlayStation at Sony.

We had a nice chat, but lost touch after that. But I was recently contacted to see if we could do an interview again. And so I jumped at the chance and learned that Okamoto has been advising a lot of startups ever since leaving Sony years ago.

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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.