Sony’s Silence of the Goats
Those fun-loving folks at Sony have done it again…with a remake: The Silence of the Goats.
Slaughter: Horror at Sony’s depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat
the Daily Mail -22:45pm on 28th April 2007s
Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.
The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation 2 console.
….At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines from its stomach. They also threw knives at targets and pulled live snakes from a pit with their bare hands. Topless girls added to the louche atmosphere by dipping grapes into guests’ mouths, while a male model portraying Kratos, the game’s warrior hero, handed out garlands….
We have reproduced the spread — headlined Sony’s Greek Orgy — here, but have pixellated the image to spare readers the sight of the goat’s decapitated head hanging by a thread of tissue from its corpse, with blood dripping to the floor…
I wonder if Sony’s CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, was there for goat festivities or whether has keeps his own goat in his carpetbag for travel fun? It must be a good way to relieve stress as he in a hotel when in Tokyo and spends much time in New York and London (at goat parties) to run Sony by remote control.
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April 29th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Oops, I forgot to turn the comments on. Sorry.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
To quote my friend K-G:
While this story could be true, it does seem to have a fair number of bullshit indicators, such as the quote above…somehow I don’t see the daily mail being that precise that they would make a distinction between intestines and offal (which can include intestines but also other internal organs). While I realize folks in the UK are not as paranoid about liability lawsuits as US people, I somehow doubt any event would encourage handling offal and snakes in an party environment, given high possibility of making people sick via touching contaminated items and then eating and drinking.
But the biggest flag is that they are “sourcing” the image from a Sony’s Official Playstation magazine. That means this event must have happened several weeks ago if, as the piece states, the magazine is already being mailed out (since editorial and printing takes a fair bit of time in the print world). If it happened several weeks ago, the odds are this would have leaked out before now, since these kinds of events 99% of the time are held for the benefit of the press.. Also, I somehow question that kind of image would have passed through editorial without someone pointing out that it might not be a good image to use, esp in the animal rights activist infested UK. And the piece quotes several people by name but no one from Sony by name. So it could be true but I’d like to see something directly from Sony concerning this before I’d buy into it.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I think it has gotten to the point where there is nothing too terrible that anyone could say about b-a-a–a-a-ad Sony. Anything is believable.
On the other hand, The Mail is sort of full of it….goat shit that is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Mail
http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/
I see that only FOX NEWS reports this as story fact anywhere on google news and Fox just rehashes the The Mail
April 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Sony has NOT made any comment or protest about this so it must have been true.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Sony finally has made a comment.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:38 am
I just found this great goat screenshot from Sony’s God of War II game as well as this comment at The Reg Hardware.com -UK:
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Here’s a funny take on the whole Goatgate goof-up….
If you don’t buy this console, we’ll kill this goat
DealBreaker.com, 05. 1.07 at 02:10 PM
…What a party, although people were overheard saying, “I bet killing this goat would’ve been more fun with the Wii-mote.”
Sony’s party defense is two-pronged:
–Sure there’s a decapitated goat …but the goat was already decapitated when the company found it
–Sure you can see a woman’s nipples … but she is wearing a “top” of fresh body paint
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:11 am
Decapitate means to remove the head. From what I can tell that goat was only let out(cutting of the throat to drain the blood). The heads still hanging in there. And who wouldn’t want topless girls at a party?!
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