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• Sony executives to take pay cuts, forsake bonuses - report

  Sony executives including Kazuo Hirai will accept pay cuts and forsake their bonuses this year as the PlayStation parent company turns in its fourth consecutive annual loss, according to a report from the financial world.

• PS4: speed of console's spread "quite encouraging," Sony tells investors

  PlayStation 4 earned pride of place during Sony’s financial report this morning, and the uptake of its next-gen console has proved “quite encouraging” to the format holder.

• Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai to deliver a keynote at CES 2014

  Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai will deliver a keynote presentation at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show this coming January. Sony’s consumer electronics business has taken a beating the last few years, but in the interim Hirai has been promoted from the consistently profitable Sony Computer Entertainment division to the top job, and made several promises […]

• Vita sales are "where we would expect it to be," says Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai

  Vita sales are in line with Sony expectations, according to Kazuo Hirai; however, Sony’s CEO admitted sales were a bit off in some regions.

• Sony executives take pay cut, return bonuses

  A Sony spokesperson told Bloomberg that CEO Kazuo Hirai and several other executives will take pay cuts following four years of losses. Seven executives returned their annual bonuses over the company’s poor performance, and Sony has asked shareholders to appoint a new board of directors, including Hirai. Coincidentally, Nikkei reported yesterday that Nintendo had slashed […]

• Sony doubles down on games, confirms 10,000 lay-offs

  New CEO Kazuo Hirai has revealed Sony’s strategic plans to dig back out of several successive loss years, focussing on core businesses and making significant cuts.

• Sony's Hirai debunks PS4 E3 reveal rumours - details

  Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Kazuo Hirai has flatly denied whispers of an imminent PlayStation 4 reveal at E3 in June.

• PSN to be incorporated into new brand, Sony Entertainment Network

  Sony is to unite its disparate digital entertainment services in a new platform called the Sony Entertainment Network.

• Analysts call for Vita price drop in wake of 3DS cut

  Japanese analysts believe Sony should follow Nintendo’s lead and lower the PS Vita’s price.

• Hirai becomes SCEI chairman, House takes over as president

  Sony’s just announced the appointment of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Andrew House as the president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment International.

• PS boss climbs Sony ladder as restructure shuffles divisions

  PlayStation boss Kazuo Hirai has been promoted to executive deputy president of Sony, and may take over as chief executive when current incumbent Howard Stringer retires.