Ken Kutaragi Demoted

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Originally Posted by salmonax

Kutaragi leaving would be unlikely (where would he go?)

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Nintendo. Kutaragi would be one of the few people who could reverse Nintendo's downward spiral that was created by Iwata.

Big companies often do things like that. They don't want to cannibalize their own stuff. But you'd think that when the competition is doing it, or going to do it, you might as well make your own iPod and get some of the money.

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Originally Posted by Revoltor

If only they released Metal Slug 3....

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:tu:

Sony has been stuck in this weird position for years. They cant find a balance between content providing and content playing. Because of that you get these horrible things like SonicStage and ATRAC.

Ken was obviously on the side of more open formats, but it looks like that side has lost within the Sony ranks. That bodes badly for Sony as time goes on.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I totally understand Sony's reluctance though. I mean yeah, fighting it is just throwing wooden shoes into the gears, but supporting MP3 is fundamentally shooting themselves in the foot. It just happens that the leg was already blown off.

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Sony was one of the first company's to market CD burners and CD-Rs, even though their music and gaming businesses were CD-based.
Why? Maybe it's because of a lack of coordination between departments, or maybe they just figured that since so many other company's were going to profit from piracy, they might as well get in on the act, too and reclaim at least some of their losses.
Why they haven't done the same thing with MP3 is anybody's guess. It might have more to do with MP3 being inferior technology.