Mark Cerny, lead system architect, PlayStation 4 & 5.

Mark Cerny is an American programmer, and game designer whose career has shaped not only how we play, but the systems we play on. A San Francisco native, he dropped out of UC Berkeley at 17 after receiving an invitation to join Atari . At 18 he designed the arcade hit Marble Madness . He then moved to Japan to work with Sega , for whom he founded the Sega Technical Institute , developers of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 . Then played a key role in landmark titles such as Crash Bandicoot , Jak and Daxter , and Resistance . He’s perhaps best known, however, as the lead system architect of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 , helping to define the technical and creative possibilities of an entire generation of video games. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Take the Acast listener survey to help shape the show: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Survey 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.