If you were about to leave a company, what would you do to make sure that your name lived on within its walls? Well, Kazuya Sakakihara – an ex-software engineer for Sony, who helped design both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 – decided that the best way for him to leave an indelible mark on the Japanese giant was to quite literally implant himself into its newest console.
Indeed, as you can see in the image below, this crafty coder has managed to slip his entire name into one line of the PS4's HDD code. The eagle-eyed among you may notice that he has actually committed a slight spelling error. However, we suspect that this was an intentional gaffe, put in place to make sure the code ran properly.
What do you make of this nifty piece of trivia? Will you ever be able to look at your super system the same way again? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source kotaku.com]
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We finally found what stops Driveclub working good...
This is amazing. I love this story.
that is awesome . story reminds me of the one earlier this year about the birmingham (UK) surgeon who branded his initials into a patients liver.
Legend.
What is amazing about this story is not that the the engineer put his name in the code (though that's clever). What is amazing is that someone bothered to scroll through a hex dump of the code and found it!. I mean, surely there are better things to do with one's time.
He's probably stuck some tastey code in there so that on his next birthday every single ps4 PSN account sends him a friend request and all ps4 themes change to a big PAC man gif of his head eating code. Maybe.
thumbs up
@Bad-MuthaAdebis We live in hope.
Who the heck found this??
Reminds me of the Atari era.
Genuinely amazed anyone sifted through all that code to be able to find it.
Holy Moses I wonder how much time that took OR he got the tip from his buddy - the infamous coder
What a boss!
That's awesome
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