Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:37:00
Sony not quite as stupid as previously thought
I should have known that a story in The Daily Mail wouldn’t be accurate. While stupid, it turns out that Sony did not actually slaughter a goat at the God of War II launch party. They did have a dead goat at the party, which they got from a butcher. It was already dead. And there were no entrails offered to the crowd...it was a bowl of meat soup, and the crowd was about 20 journalists. Between the image of the dead goat, the strongly-worded invitation and the fact that The Daily Mail couldn’t tell the truth about the status of a traffic light, it looks like this story was blown all the hell out of proportion.
I believed it without a second thought, which was stupid...I didn’t realize the source was so...shall we say..."iffy." That having been said, all my other criticisms about Sony are still valid. ;)
You can read the entire explanation from Sony’s European entertainment director here.
Posted by JimK at 10:37 PM on April 30, 2007
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#2 Posted by Rann Aridorn 
on 05/01 at 07:32 PM -
This in no way absolves Sony from the accusation or the reality of being stupid.
... Even though the memos were faked, they were still true?
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#1 Posted by working_man
on 05/01 at 04:31 PM -
This in no way absolves Sony from the accusation or the reality of being stupid.