PS5 Lead Engineer is Retiring

gamerant.com:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Executive Vice President, Masayasu Ito, who led the PlayStation 5 engineering team, is retiring early next year. In the meantime, the veteran executive will step down from his current position and occupy a transitional role at Sony Group starting October 1, while the industry giant continues battling PS5 supply issues.

Ito spent his entire career at Sony, having originally joined the company in 1986 after acquiring a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Tokyo's Waseda University. He first worked on Sony's car audio systems before making a switch to the firm's console division in 2000, where he contributed to the development of various PlayStation accessories. The hardware architect then served as a mechanical engineering lead for the PlayStation Portable console and also led the PS3 hardware team, before eventually overseeing all development efforts on the PS4, PS4 Pro, PS VR, and PS5.

Sony Engineer Explains Why PS5 is So Big

Ito will still serve as an executive adviser to Sony's Platform Experience Group until the end of the conglomerate's current fiscal year, which runs through March 31, 2023. During this interim period, he will also take on a mobility role at Sony Group. The temporary assignment, which is a standard industry practice when it comes to C-suite changes, will likely see Ito facilitate a leadership transition at SIE. His immediate replacement will be another senior executive, Finance SVP Lin Tao, who was elevated to a Director role at the same time SIE appointed Ito as a Representative Director in March 2021.

This change in management isn't meant to signal a wider restructuring effort at Sony, a company spokesperson told Bloomberg. The situation comes down to the fact