Tag Archives: Sony Japan

Thu, Jan 03, 2013 | 10:29 GMT

Sony Japan patents NFC tech to suppress second hand game sales – report

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Sony Japan has allegedly filed a patent application for near field communication tech that is rumoured to quash second hand game sales going into the next generation.

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Fri, Oct 19, 2012 | 14:43 BST

Sony Japan cutting 2,000 jobs at head office

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Sony plans to cut 2,000 jobs in Japan with 20% of head office employees leaving at the end of the year through “early retirement.”

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Tue, Aug 25, 2009 | 00:56 BST

Watch these PS3 Slim “Playface” ads, if you dare

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Sony’s new Japanese ad campaign for the PS3 Slim, called “playface,” is — bar none — the most terrifying thing we’ve ever encountered while working in the rough and tumble world of games blogging.

If this is indeed what play looks like in Japan, then we now know why Japanese people are always buried in their work.

To escape. To escape from the nefarious, pitch-black boxes that sit in their living rooms. The horror, the horror.

We’ve locked the commercials away after the break, with the hope that they may never seep forth from beyond the veil.

Why did you bestow this evil upon us, Joystiq? Why?

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