Today Sony has announced that Atsushi Morita, president and corporate director of Sony Interactive Entertainment Asia, will be retiring due to age.
Atsushi has been in the industry for quite some time. In 2001 he worked as a design manager on cult classic JRPG Shadow Hearts. He also assisted with marketing for both Odin Sphere and Catherine, was part of the motion capture team for Tenchu: Return from Darkness, worked on the customer support team for both Trauma Center: New Blood and Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2, and was part of the supervision team for both The Tomorrow Children and Gravity Rush 2. The first time he?s specifically mentioned as president of SIEA is in the credits of 2017?s Gran Turismo: Sport, and the last Sony game he worked on was on VR adventure game Déraciné.
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