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• Sony Japan & Asia to get "aggressive" in 2014, "various games incoming"

  Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia President Hiroshi Kawano has teased something of a bumper year of releases, and promises that the PlayStation arm will be more “aggressive,” in 2014.

• Sony boss: abandoning PS3 would be "maker's ego"

  Sony Japan president Hiroshi Kawano has said he doesn’t expect gamers to jump from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4 immediately just because the platform holder has a new console out.

• Xbox One backlash was a 'useful source' for PS4 strategy, says Yoshida

  PS4’s inner workings and policies were not created solely to counter Microsoft’s Xbox One DRM and used restrictions, SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has said, but he has admitted that the torrent of negative reactions from fans has proved a ‘useful source’ of what not to do.

• Sony restructure sees three Asian headquarters merged into single division

  Sony has dissolved Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, Asia and Pan-Asia into a single entity, dubbed Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia.

• Vita sales quadruple following Japanese price cut

  Vita hardware sales have somewhat unsurprisingly surged in the wake of a price reduction in Japan.

• Sony President admits he hasn't seen final PS4 design

  Are you annoyed with Sony’s inability to show the actually the PS4 at Wednesday’s New York reveal? Well, don’t be. Even Hiroshi Kawano, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, has indicated he doesn’t know what the final console will look like.

• Sony admits PS Vita sales are below expectations, discusses price drop

  Sony has stated that PS Vita sales are currently behind the company’s projections, but that the console’s newly-announced price drop will get more people playing the handheld moving forward.

• Sony Japan CEO on what PlayStation has in store for Japan

  This week’s Dengeki PlayStation magazine has a lengthy interview with SCE Japan CEO Hiroshi Kawano, giving us a glimpse of what the company has in store for its home territory.

• Vita Japanese launch originally planned for early December, admits SCEJ boss

  PlayStation Vita was due to release in Japan on December 3 instead of its since-confirmed December 17 release in the country, SCEJ boss Hiroshi Kawano has said in Famitsu this week.

• SCEJ president doesn't see 3DS or smartphones as Vita competitors

  SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano doesn’t feel Nintendo’s 3DS is a direct competitor to Vita, due to the two handhelds being vastly different from each other in not only looks and tech, but price point.

• Sony: "Ask Capcom," if you want to know why Monster Hunter 4 isn't on Vita

  SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano has quipped that if you want to know the reason why Monster Hunter 4 is not heading to Vita, “ask Capcom.”

• Sony to announce Vita release date at Tokyo Game Show

  Just a day after confirming that it’ll release in Japan this year, with Europe and US to follow early next year, Sony has said it’ll announce the release date of PlayStation Vita at Tokyo Game Show.

• Public to get first Vita hands-on at Tokyo Game Show

  Sony Computer Entertainment Japan boss Hiroshi Kawano has said in a blog post that the public will get their first hands-on with PlayStation Vita at Tokyo Game Show in September.

• SCEJ president: NGP has "got to receive support from gamers"

  Sony Computer Entertainment Japan president Hiroshi Kawano has told Famitsu that NGP “isn’t something that’s driven solely by us at SCE.”