Former PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai used to ignore orders from Sony bosses, he reveals

Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai, who was the president of PlayStation from 2007 to 2012, apparently didn't pay much attention to orders he received from Sony's top brass. Hirai recently revealed this in a conversation published in Japanese publication Nikkei XTrend , as translated by Game Observer . "When I was president of Sony Computer Entertainment handling the PlayStation home console business, whenever Howard [Stringer] and the other executives told me this or that, I went my own way, saying, 'What the headquarters says is irrelevant. We are PlayStation,'" Hirai revealed, reportedly while laughing.