Given Kutaragi’s legacy overseeing the Walkman and original PlayStation projects at the electronics giant it has been a shadowing last few months, with Kutaragi seemingly becoming the scape-goat for a perceived PS3 failure.

The PS3 pricing structure, and disappointment in grabbing a larger gaming demographic, which has been pirated by the Nintendo Wii has largely been levelled at Kutaragi, at least he seems to have shouldered the blame.

As the ‘father of the PlayStation’ – a moniker stretching back to the original game console in 1994- Kutaragi’s success had been overshadowed as the PS3 stumbled at many hurdles from production, through image and sales.

Kutaragi was accused of not pushing exclusive software deals hard or fast enough – as such AAA titles such as Assassins Creed were lost to multi-platform oblivion as far as Sony was concerned.

But pundits are wrong right off the PS3 so soon in its life cycle, for all that Kutaragi has given the gaming industry, lets hope his legacy is not marred by a couple of early PS3 stumbles out of the blocks. {moscomment}