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Sony Comments on the Passing of Michael Jackson

Commenting on his passing, Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President, Sony Corporation, said: "Michael Jackson was a brilliant troubadour for his generation, a genius whose music reflected the passion and creativity of an era. His artistry and magnetism changed the music landscape forever. We have been profoundly affected by his originality, creativity and amazing body of work. The entire Sony family extends our deepest condolences to his family and to the millions of fans around the world who loved him."

-x.Red.x-5833d ago

that MJ game
will it sell? or will it be a negative move?

Lifendz5833d ago

but I know I'll never forget the man's impact on the world and how his music brought my family together. Tomorrow's not guaranteed for anyone.

PiTCHBLaCK5833d ago

I Think It'll sell but people will look
at it in a bad light, Like: "There just trying
to make money off of a dead superstar" etc.

Mo0eY5833d ago

Look for a Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits on Rock Band or Guitar Hero.

That'd be the bee's knees.

y0haN5833d ago

Michael Jackson isn't a band, it's better for SingStar or Lips.

GameGambits5833d ago

Can I be the first to say it?

"At least the little kids are finally safe from MJ."

:P Just kidding.

Vip3r5833d ago

He should be remembered but like the person above me said, it looks bad to be milking money off dead super stars.

AKNAA5833d ago (Edited 5832d ago )

Especially now that he passed away. This tragedy, from my perspective stopped all the bad conception that people had towards MJ for the pass several years. Now the only thing that people "see" and realized is that we all lost a very gifted and warm hearted person that almost everyone in the music industry idolized.
So yes, his game will definitely sell now that he's gone, along with the bad perception about him. Just like how biggi and 2pac sold albums like crazy even when they were pronounced dead.
But if MJ was still alive and the game released, i guarantee you that the tabloids and press will stomp on it like as if it were an ant reaching for your food at a picnic.

@vip3r " it looks bad to be milking money off dead super stars."

Tell that to puff daddy.

dead guy Below me vvvvv you just fed yourself to the sharks.

BLuKhaos5833d ago

OH god so he died, big f-ing deal.Lots of people die every day why should this one matter anymore than the rest.He was bound to die sooner or later, I mean he was old and less than half his body was living tissue.

You know I noticed that this robot looks more realistic than MJ.

cwir5832d ago

It is a big f-ing deal. So what lots of people die every day. He's not a regular person. He was a celebrity and one of the biggest at that. So what he was a little f'd up. That's what fame and the lifestyle did to him.

Besides, all the biggest newspapers, all the biggest televisions, all the biggest websites in the world have it as a main story today. Everybody is talking about it. He even caused the internet to slow down for a while. So no one cares that you don't think it's a big deal. It is. You're not.

R.I.P. Michael.

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hay5832d ago

@BLuKhaos: It's a big deal cause he's a person that had strong influence on some people's lives. I was raised on his music, loved it for years and now some part of the world crumbles.
Yeah, people day everyday. But death of every person leave creates a bit of emptiness in others who loved/liked/admired that person.
And if at least ten closest people are sad cause of someone's dead it results in more than one million people being sad cause of someone's death everyday.
I can't wait when someone dear to you will die causing you to make a big deal of it. I won't be there, but you may then realize how dumb and short sighted you were. The world doesn't go around you.

Leathersoup5832d ago

Apparently you haven't heard of Worthington's law.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Rowland5832d ago

funny how he 'touched' so many childrens lives as well & yet so many people are able to walk past the fact that he was a child molesting pervert. You should be ashamed of yourself. There's no excuse no matter how talented he was. Disgusting.

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saf1007925832d ago (Edited 5832d ago )

Comments like those are why you both only have 4 bubbles instead of five

@ Rowland your forgetting the fact that he was NOT-GUILTY on ALL counts of molesting a child

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xwabbit5831d ago (Edited 5831d ago )

Wow BLuKhaos i hope u lose all ur bubbles, retards saying he was a child molester when all of the results came negative and he was found innocent. Some kids believe anything they read i guess. people cant get into their minds that once he was sued the first time and payed to escaped all the media from talking more crap about him other people saw it as an opened window to get easy $.

King: not every day a king of pop dies. By what u said, ur saying we shouldn't of cared when Martin Luther king or any important person died because there where more important issues to worry about that actually affect the ones living Lol ? Those people changed and helped a lot of the world and helped with a lot of the racist's problems we where having. Maybe when u accomplish 20% of what he did in hes life ull understand better

RememberThe3575831d ago

Oh there was a big f*cking difference between us and him. At one point he was the best known person on Earth. He is the best selling artist of all time and has the best selling album of all time. Not every one does that. We wont see a star like that for a very long time. And for all his personal flaws he was a musical genius. I mean come on. Do people still give Van Gogh sh*t for cutting off his ear? The line between genius and insanity is ofter line and blurred.

Poopface the 2nd5831d ago

apparently Worthington's law applies to bubbles too.

JD_Shadow5831d ago (Edited 5831d ago )

If they donate the money made through the game towards a favorite charity of MJ's, then I think it would be all right. I wouldn't guarantee that there wouldn't be ANY naysayers with that prerequisite, but it at least make people aware that they mean well.

Remember, too, that Sony owns Epic Records, who was instrumental in launching MJ's solo career, and we ALL know where that ended up.

As for GH or RB, GH already has Beat It on their GH:WT setlist, and all RB has to do is to get the Thriller album onto DLC. I would DEF. DL that even if it was in bad taste (not that I wouldn't frown at the insensitivity of it (again, they could do what I suggested above), but there's a lot of songs on there that I wouldn't mind having).

morganfell5831d ago

Thank you zlatko. It's ridiculous how every time some well known person takes a dirt nap they are magically transformed into Mother Theresa.

Bob Dole5831d ago

They found OJ innocent too ya' know.

bjornbear5831d ago

So MJ was charged with a heinous crime, and so what if he was guilty. I too agree its disgusting and horrible, but is it too hard to remember him in dead for who he used to be? What he did before all that?

Why bring up bad things at a person's death? Do you want everyone that knew you to remember you for the bad stuff you did instead of the good stuff? What kind of humans are you anyway?

Show some compaxion as intelligent human beings or GTFO.

R.I.P MJ, u'll be missed =)

pixelsword5831d ago (Edited 5831d ago )

1. Sony and MJ were estranged at best, and Sony is arguably one of the reasons MJ went bankrupt, especially when Sony failed to promote his album Invincible... much like how Sony is failing to promote the PS3 now.

2. MJ owned (I think he still owned) half of Sony/ATV Music Publishing
http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

3. MJ called Sony's Tommy Mottola "the devil" because of dealings that would leave MJ indebted to Sony for the rest of his life.

thesummerofgeorge5830d ago (Edited 5830d ago )

It's a big deal when somebody dies, you little twit, and the reason it seems like it's a bigger deal that Michael died is because it affected more people than the average person, as he is a music icon whom the world loved. You're clearly too young understand his influence or why it affects so many people, so just keep your mouth shut on the matter if you've got nothing nice to say. And by the way, he wasn't old, he was 50, and when a 50 year old dies, it's tragic, especially someone who's done so much good and has so much talent, and changed the world a well as countles lives. Nobody is saying his life was more important than the next persons, it's just that his death affected more people than the next persons, just like his life did. The world is morning his death, and we don't need your permission.

TheDeadMetalhead5830d ago

Nobody knows that he molested those kids (he was found innocent).
However, EVERYBODY knows that he made Thriller. ;o

jmare5830d ago

You are so wrong it saddens me. You can not be found innocent, the two verdicts are GUILTY or NOT GUILTY. You can only be found guilty if the evidence is beyond reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt is a big problem with celebrities because jurors don't see them as people, but as a celebrity and it makes it difficult for the jurors to beleive negative things about someone they idolized when they were young. If another person did the exact same things that MJ did, he would be in jail. So I'll leave you all with the same thing I said when I first heard he had died: Whoo-hoo!(MJ voice)

TheDeadMetalhead5830d ago

I meant to say "Not Guilty". It was a simple typo, let it go.

jmare5830d ago (Edited 5830d ago )

You weren't the only one saying it. And if I was being anal, like you imply, I would say that you are wrong again, it is not a typo because a typo is the misspelling of a word, not a correctly spelled word used incorrectly. But my point was more about how people think that because someone is found not guilty it somehow means they are innocent. There is a difference and some people don't understand that.

thesummerofgeorge5830d ago (Edited 5830d ago )

You are simply making sh!t up when you say the jurors had a hard time finding him guilty because they idolized him... If you had heard the jurors interviews after the case, you'd know that wasn't the case. They said there wasn't enough evidence etc. although they did feel there was very odd and suspicious behavior on MJs part, they were only there to judge this particular case, in which they were not convinced of foul play. MJ clearly had issues, he was a child in a mans body, that's very evident from his interviews and behavior, and that's a result of an isolated life, and an abusive childhood. But it's not for us to judge seeing as we don't know, and possibly never will. I certainly would not want to ignore the fact that a child was abused by Michael if I knew that to be the case, but NONE of us know, we don't even have the slightest clue, other than what you hear on access hollywood and the tabloids. What I do know for sure is the incredible life he had, the amazing music he made, the outstanding charitable work he's done, and the heavy influence he had on me and many others growing up.

Since none of us know much about his personal life no less what he is or isn't guilty of, lets celebrate his life, not trash a dead mans name, it's low class and mean.

Edit: well jmare, in the same vein just because allegations are made, doesn't mean someone is guilty, and it's not for you to judge. Someone is cleared of the charges against them (of coarse we don't know for sure) and it's not your job to go around criticizing people for not assuming he is guilty regardless. There is an equal argument against the parents who went after him, but you don't consider that do you? It's easy to assume the worst of someone, but we don't know the truth, the man answered to the law and was cleared of the charges. MJ clearly had issues, maybe he had an unhealthy relationship with children for a man his age, but that isn't enough for one to assume with any certainty that he is a child rapist.

The Killer5830d ago

what u said could be said in the other way around, just a person is being accused of something it doesnt mean he is guilty, the zionist wanted to destroy his image since he refused to sing dirty like most of the famous singers!!

Jordan Chandler admits he lied about Michael Jackson.
http://awkwardstar.wordpres...

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rajman5833d ago

So sad to see this amazing talent go so early =( I will cherish my DVD & CD Box sets collection

ID IR A G 0 N5832d ago

so early???? the guy was fifty. lets not compare him with say hendrix, jim morrison, or even tupac. he is twice as old as the ones i mentioned and his career was over unlike the ones i mentioned.

who cares about a child molesting freak. good riddance!!!

i dont care if you all think that the child molesting was false. those charges were dropped, but where there is smoke there is fire. money can get you out of a lot of things. O.J. murdered his wife and got away with it, so dont give me the charges dropped bs.

tehReaper5832d ago

ID IR A G 0 N

Hey man, don't forget Cobain.

leila015831d ago

So much d****bags on this site, I wont name them though...

RememberThe3575831d ago

Left Eye, Aaliyah, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Luther Vandross, Notorious BIG, Roger Toutman, and Bob Marley.

Kaneda5830d ago

All the famous people you named that died early all got HIGH everyday in their life.. MJ never got caught using drugs. so MJ is different.

So kids don't do drugs! you will die early!

thesummerofgeorge5830d ago (Edited 5830d ago )

That's not true. He was addicted to morphine among a coctail of other drugs, that's a fact. Assumptions don't count as facts sweetheart.

On a separate note... they won't let me spell coctail correctly cause it has the word coc*k in it.... Pathetic censorship.

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PotNoodle5833d ago

Why is this on news 4 GAMERS?

Sony's connections with MJ is that they own quite a bit of his music catalogue..

PiTCHBLaCK5833d ago

I Figured it was Sony related and I Know some PS3
fans follow Sony news.

phosphor1125832d ago

But I don't come to N4G to read about MJ. If I wanted to listen to people talk about MJ all day, I'd go watch Entertainment Tonight or Extra.

He passed, yes, at a young age, but this site isn't the place to talk about it.

R.I.P moment for celebs
Farrah Fawcett
Micheal Jackson
Ed McMahon

tehReaper5832d ago

It sort of relates because of the MJ game(isn't it on PS2 and PS3?), although nothing in the article is gaming related. If you count Sony being in the gaming industry, then yeah.

Oh well..its close enough, just leave it, or like Michael would say "Just beat it!"

JD_Shadow5831d ago (Edited 5831d ago )

He went on a TON of avenues, including the gaming realm. He had the Sega Genesis game Moonwalker, he DID have another game in the works, and I was reading something about part of his Neverland Ranch being an arcade with games on free play (he was also known as an avid gamer).

Basically, anything that has to do with pop culture, HE'S had a hand in at some point in his illustrious lifetime.

EDIT: Plus, I don't know if this will matter in any way to the game, but Michael DID own a lot, if not all, of The Beatles music catalog, and that will have to change hands to SOMEONE now that he's obviously not around to make decisions...and...isn't there a Beatles Rock Band game coming out on 9-9-09?

Can someone fill me in on what could possibly happen there? Could details about that change now that whoever gets the rights to that might have a different opinion about who does what with the catalog than MJ had? Would it matter (since I'm unsure who gave HMX the green light for that to begin with)?

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thematrix12985833d ago

Supernova Michael Jackson....RIP great one!

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