Masayasu Ito he decided to leave Sony Interactive Entertainment and your role as representative director and deputy president starting from 1 October 2022, thus determining an important change at the top of the company.
It will therefore cover its role Lin Taowho will fill the same roles as Ito.
According to what Bloomberg reported, which would have received confirmation from internal sources and close to the matter, it seems that Masayasu Ito’s withdrawal is simply due to the desire to go to pensiondue to having reached “the retirement age”, therefore it would only be a question of abandonment due to age limits, although this seems to be only 57 years old.
Ito worked for about 11 years at Sony Corporation before joining Sony Interactive Entertainment in April 2008, overseeing the hardware engineering division and the operations of SIE, playing an important role in the planning of thehardware related to PlayStation.
In particular, in his role he had some weight in the design and development of PlayStation VR and PlayStation 5, making it an important person in the Sony landscape in recent years. Lin Tao will therefore be placed in his place, while Ito will completely leave all his roles within the Sony Group.
At the same time, Kiichiro Uratathe head of the Japan Asia partner development and relations section for Sony Interactive Entertainment, will be promoted to the role of Company Director.
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