Posted by callebest | February 11th, 2010 |
FILED UNDER: All. Business. Cars. Games. News. Opinion. Politics. Tech.
In an amazing display of honor and integrity possibly extinct amongst American businesses, Toyota Motor Corp. CEO and President Akio Toyoda declined to accept an award from the Japanese Government for the Prius model’s energy efficiency. The Prius was one of 3 products selected this year to receive the Grand Prize for Energy Efficiency and Ecological Quality from Japan’s Trade Minister.
Referring to the recent voluntary recall of 437,000 Prius for possible brake problems, Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco said, “We declined to accept the award because we thought it was not appropriate.” Toyota made the decision to recall the Prius amongst the recent recall of a total of 8.5 million other Toyota autos after receiving only 200 complaints total in both the U.S. and Japan of the hybrid experiencing a braking delay in very specific cold weather conditions over very bumpy roads.
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Tags apology, awards, disgrace, efficiency, green energy, hari kari, honor, integrity, Japan, Japanese, Prius, Seppuku, suicide, Toyota, video game industry, xbox, xbox 360
Posted by gavintwb | June 26th, 2009 |
FILED UNDER: All. Business. Games. News. Opinion. Reviews.
The folks over at GameAlmighty.com have posted an article on what we can only hope will be a lasting trend – good games all-year round, not just a holiday season fisted full of all the best titles. Do the game publishers honestly think we save up our money the entire year until the holidays roll around, and then like some sort of gaming chipmunk we stuff our cheeks full of enough of them to play for the next 12 months?
From GameAlmighty.com:
“[It is] my opinion that this was an ill-advised practice rooted in an old model that assumed most game purchases are made by someone for someone else. As in a Mother buying Super Mario Bros for their child at Christmas because it was on his list, instead of the more contemporary and accurate example of a 35-year-old kid buying Super Mario Bros Wii for himself now because today was its release date and rationalizing it all to his wife by saying it is for their children ‘because they have been good.’”
They also include a slew of mini-reviews covering all of this weeks most significant releases as well as a very in-depth review of the highly-anticipated Wii shooter, The Conduit that is definitely worth checking out.
Tags analyst, holiday season, release calendar, sales, shopping, summers, video game industry
