The Playstation hardware architect assisted Sony from the PS2 to the PS5. Masayasu Ito is retiring after decades of service from Sony.

Masayasu Ito, one of the PlayStation brand’s longest-running creators, will retire from the business at the end of September, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment. Ito’s resignation was initially reported by Bloomberg, after which the publisher issued its own announcement on the official SIE website.

Career with Sony

Masayasu Ito started his career with Sony in 1986, working on the company’s range of automobile stereo systems At a time when audio equipment was the core of Sony’s technological output. Ito would not join the PlayStation brand until 2000, when he would employ his design expertise to create PS2 accessories.

Ito would go on to play a key position in the division, working as the lead architect for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro consoles, in addition to the very popular portable gaming device PlayStation Portable (PSP). It was only lately that Ito was given the unenviable task of creating Sony’s most current piece of hardware, the PS5. The development of complex, next-generation technology in the face of severe manufacturing, component, and distribution restrictions is not a simple process; yet, the console is expected to be released on November 12, 2020.

It is impossible to deny the contribution that Ito has made to the success of the PlayStation brand over the past two decades. He has presided over the introduction of some of the gaming systems that have been the most successful of all time.

Lin Tao, who serves as the Senior Vice President of Finance, Corporate Development, and Strategy at SIE at the present time, will take over for Ito when he leaves Sony on October 1, 2022.

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