Hirai: My PS3 Plans Are Bearing Fruit

About a year ago, it was not an enviable position to be in Kaz Hirai's shoes.

He had just taken over from living legend Ken Kutaragi, the man who was known as the father of the PlayStation. And PS3 was not selling as it was supposed to.

But now some time has passed and things are looking up for both Hirai and Sony. This year, PS3 has been neck and neck with Xbox 360 for second place.

"I think that some of the initiatives that I put in place after I took over the job in Japan are starting to bear fruit. We talk about this all the time: the fact that we’ve repositioned the PlayStation 3 as being first and foremost a videogames console. I think that cleared up a lot of confusion in everybody’s minds – certainly people in the press as well as consumers," he said in an interview with Three Speech.

"It hasn’t been a year yet since Kutaragi-san left, but I think things are heading in the right direction, and I’m very happy with where we find ourselves today. But certainly, not happy to the extent that we can just kick back. There’s a lot more stuff that we need to do," Hirai added.