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For a jap that was quite a blunt statement (usually when there’s issues between two parties, that makes it to the public, both sides tend to keep quiet/be discreet out of respect. Either Kojima has fully internalized the western way of handling these things or Sony were unimaginably dickish to him in order to prompt this response). I’m not the biggest fan of modern Kojimbo titles but there’s no defending souring that relationship both from an optics perspective and because his studio has a way higher chance of producing something successful than any other talentless fag studio Sony has left (I.e., cuckmann’s naughty dog, always-has-been-bad insomniac, Bungie forma de “raped”, etc.)
Can someone explain to me how all of the “old giants” decide to suck on a shotgun and pull the trigger?
Is that all really the “woke takeover” or “they/them” being promoted to deciding positions?
Or is it influence from Blackrock subsidiaries, Saudis and other groups of interest?
I can’t imagine that you would hold an investor meeting and just announce “yeah, we will start releasing absolute trash and run the brand renown into the ground”.
It would be easy to excuse one or two companies going full retard, but we see a volume far beyond “randomness “.
I don’t personally care really, because for music and vidya there are indie producers with better releases than big studios. Plus, there’s and endless supply of movies, games and music made pre-slop era.
Still, it’s a fascinating subject.
Sony's big problem specifically is they've spent several years of their studios' time and untold zillions of dollars chasing the live service dragon, hoping that they'd get their own Fortnite that would print money forever. The closest they got to that was Helldivers 2 (not very close). The rest of what resulted either flopped on release (Concord, Marathon) or died in development.
Btw on the topic of Sony committing seppuku, this thread is heavily focused on just the PlayStation division and rightfully so. But nobody as focused on the question of Sony’s television division spinning off completely just this year alone.
Sony Bravias are basically going to be made by the Chinese TV manufacturer TCL, and to make matters even worse for Sony, 51% of Bravia Inc will be owned by TCL, meaning that it is no longer Sony that truly commits to manufacturing, but rather TCL.
With Sony losing out in the personal computing space in 2014 after they sold Vaio (Vaio is still luckily around, independent and doing fine), their Bravia division tanking, and now PlayStation falling apart, things are looking rough in Sony land.
Btw this isn’t even the worst Sony failure from this year. If you pay attention to the automotive industry, Sony & Japanese automaker Honda were supposed to release an electric vehicle called AFEELA. AFEELA was supposed to be Japan’s answer to China’s Xiaomi or America’s Tesla. Guess what? Honda, who was supposed to manufacture the vehicle in Ohio ended up cancelling this project with Sony. They also restructured their business model in March 2026 after Trump cut all EV incentives off, meaning that for the better part of six years, the AFEELA/Sony Vision-S was nothing more than a wasted effort by Sony to make their own car. They flopped hard:
The AFEELA car that was cancelled.
Now I know this is a Sony Hate Thread but I’ll be real with you guys; I used to love Sony. Their Walkmans were nothing short of incredible. Their Trinitron CRTs were the crème de la crème. The PlayStation and PlayStation 2 will forever be my favorite consoles of all time. Their car radios were top tier. Their shortwave radios will forever be legendary for their quality and features. But there’s a saying: a fan can quickly become a hater, and when you fail again and again, place accountants above engineers, you’ll get failure.
Sony succeeded because it had Ken Kutaragis once upon a time. Today it’s failing because it has Lin Taos in charge. Let that sink in.
What adds insult to this is that Hulst and Sony encouraged Kojimbo to make this game and come back to the stealth genre as part of their partnership. Could they not have at least regulated his spending habits if they were this concerned with finances?
Want to step back for a moment and, while I do honestly respect Kojimbo because in the land of woke retards the insane aut isteur is king, the title may be one of the worst game names I have ever seen. Thought at first Kojoemama was making a physics engine when I first read it
The whole thing about Sony not having games is just simply untrue. They have games, but they’d rather you either not have access to them or you pay them to play a poorly ported version of them. Meanwhile you can emulate their games and leave them ass out. I’ve been doing that with my favorite childhood games and the only thing it cost me was the price of a can of monster at stripes.
What adds insult to this is that Hulst and Sony encouraged Kojimbo to make this game and come back to the stealth genre as part of their partnership. Could they not have at least regulated his spending habits if they were this concerned with finances?
You know, I'm starting to think this Herman Hulst guy was the wrong decision to head playstation. Hopefully a new live service will replace Physint since they never fail and have always historically succeeded.
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