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Really feels like Sony is giving up on its famed electronics business to become a gaming and media business — from selling some of its TV business to TCL, to ending its showcase participation at Consumer Electronics Show.
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Sony ends participation in Consumer Electronics Show
It marks the first time in six decades that Sony has declined to exhibit at the large electronics conference in Las Vegas.
![Here we talk to Titus technical director Rob Stevens about the publisher's N64 howler Superman. But before we rummage around in this company's misery, two points need to be made.
(1) Most of us are big enough to admit that we've all screwed up somewhere along the line. But not everyone is big enough to come right out and talk about individual, painful examples.
(2) We contacted a broad cross-section of the industry for this feature. In some cases we mentioned that we wanted to talk about certain individual stinkers. Of these companies, only Titus felt able to grant an interview.
GAMES BUSINESS: One game that has come up is Superman for the Nintendo 64. Were you involved in that product?
ROB STEVENS: Minimally. I should have been more involved, which is maybe why it didn't turn out so well.
GB: Did you know it would get slammed at review level?
RS: Yes.
GB: So why not stick at it at group level and try to get it right?
RS: We already had been sitting on it for about three years in development, and it was pretty much a disaster from start to finish.
GB: So what was the problem?
RS: Lots of stuff. I don't want to air our dirty laundry in public, but there were management problems, organizational problems, and inexperienced programmers.
GB: How much power do you have to say to the bosses, "This isn't good enough"?
RS: It depends on the game and the circumstances. For example, with Superman, there was no power whatsoever. It was going to go out and that was it.
GB: Did you get a lot of bad feedback from consumers who bought it?
RS: I'm kind of divorced from that to a certain extent, but we did get a lot of customers kicking and screaming.
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