Kaz Hirai "No Longer as Close to PlayStation"

There appears to be a little tension at Sony management level right how. CEO Kaz Hirai recently told Bloomberg, "(Gakai) is a company that’s going to propel the movement of the video game business into the cloud space very quickly". Shuhei Yoshida, head of Worldwide Studios for PlayStation thinks his boss could be a little ahead of himself.

At gamescom last week, with a laugh, Mr Yoshida pointed out that, "Can I just say that Kaz, as president and CEO of Sony, is no longer as close to PlayStation and our plans any more." He continued on the Gakai theme, and no more laughter.

"So, whatever he wants to say he can say, but in terms of actual plans for PlayStation with Gaikai, we’ve started to work with very talented people at Gaikai. We’re very excited to be able to work with a forerunner of creating cloud gaming in the infrastructure."

He expanded on the theme, telling VG247, "We believe in the future. When the internet becomes much more robust and faster in more parts of the world, cloud gaming can provide lots of great services to allow people to have instantaneous access to a variety of content on a variety of devices. With that premise, we will work with Gaikai to what makes more sense in terms of content for our target devices, to bring cloud gaming services into the PlayStation eco-system. We’ll be able to talk more about our plans in the future."

In short, "Calm down boss... we've only just started this cloud thing."

Of course, all this was said before the shenanigans at Gakai competitor OnLive, which you can read about here.