22 July, 2008

Kaz Hirai Annoys Me

Kaz is the top muckety muck for Sony's game division. As a Sony executive, it's apparently part of his job description to make up nonsensical spin and lies. As such, I should probably just ignore him. But I didn't and thought that taking a rage dump might help me get his nonsense out of my head.

He's been trying to cast Sony as benevolent for phasing out the 40GB PS3 and replacing it with the 80GB unit at the same price. I checked out the appropriate 40GB and 80GB drives on newegg. At the time I checked, there was a four dollar difference between a 40GB and 80GB drive. We are apparently supposed to be grateful that he worked so hard not to raise the price of the system ONE PERCENT!

&*#@ing moron.

And today he's talking about how the PS2 is still going strong, while the Xbox and Gamecube aren't on shelves anymore. First off, the Wii actually has backwards compatibility, so it is on store shelves and outselling the PS2 and PS3 combined. Second, if the PS3 gets creamed as badly as the Xbox and Gamecube did, you'll drop it just as fast, if not faster.

Considering you already dropped PS2 backwards compatibility, we know you have no respect for history, just money. And that's fine. That's your job. You don't have to be a bad person to do it well.

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