Sony CEO vows to tackle game addiction as WHO to group it as disorder

Sony Corp. will tackle game addiction, its chief executive said Wednesday, as the World Health Organization is set to formally recognize it as a disorder."We need to take it seriously and adopt countermeasures," Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said in an interview with Kyodo News and other media outlets, without elaborating.Sony, the maker of PlayStation consoles, saw its gaming business generate 27 percent of the group's overall sales and 35 percent of operating profit in fiscal 2018 at 2.31 trillion yen ($21 billion) and 311 billion yen, respectively.The Japanese electronics and entertainment …READ FULL ARTICLE