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This Japanese stereotyping would be a little more credible if Sony Entertainment's headquarters hadn't moved to California years ago...

HQ location means nothing. It's still being controlled by Tokyo. If Anything, SE will be the sacrificial lamb that will be used to be sent to the slaughter house.

They did this with the mobile division in Sweden. Blame, cut and relocate.

If it’s being controlled by Tokyo, why do they keep censoring Japanese games but not Western ones?

Why not? Regardless of the conversation above I don't understand this argument.

Toyota sells car with the driving wheel on the left in the USA. Does that make them less of a Japanese company?

No, but it's a terrible analogy. The equivalent would be if Toyota started selling only left-hand drive cars in Japan.

That would be if they censored games to Japanese standards everywhere, which they don't. They use different censorship rules (and wheel positions) in different countries.

I'm not going to argue how to do analogies on the Internet on a dead thread, but I'm confused about everything you say.

You mean Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Entertainment's HQ is in New York.

Both have a Japanese CEO, we blame Musk for Twitter's faults, so we blame them for PlayStation's.

When I worked at SIE in San Diego the culture was still there, and very much so. Location does not matter.

The company was founded by Americans, too, and throughout its history it's almost always had strong ties to the US.

Are you talking about Sony or Sony Entertainment? Either way, Sony is very much a Japanese founded company.

Exactly. EA would do exactly the same could they get away with it.

I’m not sure whether this is satire or not.

I don't read it as one. Culture, as a context, is important when considering actions of people. And the actions of a company are actions of the people who control that company.

> the culture of the Japanese conservative business owners

Then that 'culture' could use some whacks up the backside, so they don't rootkit PCs and purposely damage CD readers, like that poor kid's portable player going red-hot because of their shenanigans.

Must have been twenty years since Sony got a cent from me, and they're not getting another anytime soon.

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