Yeah... they pretty much gave Sony the pieces to make the weapon against themselves.
Interestingly enough Steve Race, then-president of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) who delivered the iconic one-word "$299" speech during Sony's press conference at E3 1995 wasn't in good term with Sony of Japan (same with SoA vs SoJ case).
He resigned (or forced to resign?) just one month before the North American launch of the original PlayStation following ongoing disputes with Japanese executives in Tokyo over the console's marketing and promotion strategy.
Race believed that producing fewer but more sophisticated games was a winning strategy. With 100 titles, PlayStation has more than 80% of the US market, whereas in Japan, with 500 titles, it has only 50%. Race says, "The Japanese way is to throw everything [numbers of games] against the wall."
Great job, says Sony, now see yourself outArticle:
https://www.afr.com/companies/great-job-says-sony-now-see-yourself-out-19960930-kb04kIn July 1995 (two montsh after his iconic speech $299 which was on May 11, 1995), just before PlayStation was launched in the US, Race resigned, tired of fighting with Sony of Japan.
Five days after he departed, James Whims (another executive vice-president) was asked to resign.
So was another executive vice-president, Angelo Pezzani.
All of them don't have good memories with Sony.
Yeah. But it also made me feel, I dunno, "weak". I was conscious that something felt off, a sense of anxiety, I knew of the cause but I couldn't just fix myself then-and-there over it.
As adults, we all want to visualise ourselves as confident, strong in fortitude and responsible. Especially impressionable adults who wish they were a bit like the action heroes. But at times I feel like a house-of-cards where it wouldn't take much for me to be a crumpled mess of stress and tears.
We are humans afterall. There are days when we fell strong and there are days when we fell the opposite, and sometimes just in-between.
