I guess I'm going to have to talk about P.T., or Playable Teaser to give it its full and illustrious title. If you're reading this here on VGChartz then I'm going to presume you have a relatively good handle on all of the latest gaming news, but indulge me a moment while I set this piece up with a brief recap.
P.T. was a neat little teaser demo for the upcoming Silent Hills by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro, which got everyone terribly excited. However, publisher Konami and Hideo Kojima got into a lover's quarrel. Things escalated, and it quickly ended up with Konami flinging Kojima's clothes out of the bedroom window. Unwilling to await divorce proceedings, Konami has started burning the rest of Kojima's possessions in a fire out in the back garden, P.T. and Silent Hills among them.
P.T. has also been permanently removed from the PlayStation store. If you didn't already have it on your hard drive then you will quite likely never be able to play it. In a way I understand why it's gone - it is after all marketing material for a game that will now never happen. Its utility within Konami's corporate structure is nil. People are upset, though, because it was an interesting little horror vignette. I wanted to play it myself, moreso out of curiosity than anything else.
I mention the demo because it's a great focal point in addressing the god awful way the game industry treats its heritage. The industry's respect for history is on par with the Wikipedia entries which claim that Henry VIII formed a motorcycle gang to raid Hitler's Venusian armament factories. If they can't slap a HD sheen on it, cram it into a collection and sell it to you again, then these companies don't want to know...
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