Sony Comments on the Passing of Michael Jackson

Lifendz - 176 days 6 hours 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.

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waltercross - 176 days 6 hours 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.

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Mooey - 176 days 6 hours ago

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

That'd be the bee's knees.

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shocky16 - 176 days 6 hours ago

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y0haN - 176 days 6 hours ago

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

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zlatko - 176 days 5 hours ago

Can I be the first to say it?

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

:P Just kidding.

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Vip3r - 176 days 5 hours ago

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

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AKNAA - 176 days 5 hours 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.

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BLuKhaos - 176 days 5 hours 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.

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cwir - 176 days 5 hours 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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hay - 176 days 5 hours 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.

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Leathersoup - 176 days 5 hours ago

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

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

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Rowland - 176 days 5 hours 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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saf100792 - 176 days 4 hours 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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King Arthur - 176 days 2 hours ago

Ooooh you're so heroic and righteous with your bubbles.What does it matter if the guy has 4 bubbles and how does that make you and your five bubbles better?Also, I think you should learn how to count, y0han has seven bubbles not four.

I was never really a fan of Michael, or R&B in general, and I agree with Blu.People die every day, why should we cry over every person that dies when there are more important issues to worry about that actually affect the ones living.

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xwabbit - 174 days 16 hours 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

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RememberThe357 - 174 days 16 hours 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.

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Poopface the 2nd - 174 days 16 hours ago

apparently Worthington's law applies to bubbles too.

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darkpower - 174 days 14 hours 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).

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So Easy I Can Do It - 174 days 14 hours ago

Michael Jackson edition.

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morganfell - 174 days 13 hours 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.

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Bob Dole - 174 days 11 hours ago

They found OJ innocent too ya' know.

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bjornbear - 174 days 10 hours 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 =)

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pixelsword - 174 days 9 hours 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.

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thesummerofgeorge - 174 days 2 hours 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.

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TheDeadMetalhead - 174 days 1 hour ago

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

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jmare - 174 days 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)

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TheDeadMetalhead - 174 days ago

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

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jmare - 173 days 23 hours 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.

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thesummerofgeorge - 173 days 23 hours 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.

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The Killer - 173 days 23 hours 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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ID IR A G 0 N - 176 days 5 hours 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.

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dem0n - 176 days 4 hours ago

ID IR A G 0 N

Hey man, don't forget Cobain.

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ID IR A G 0 N - 176 days 4 hours ago

him too

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leila01 - 174 days 16 hours ago

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

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RememberThe357 - 174 days 16 hours ago

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

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Kaneda - 174 days 4 hours 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!

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thesummerofgeorge - 173 days 7 hours 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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waltercross - 176 days 6 hours ago

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

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phosphor112 - 176 days 5 hours 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

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dem0n - 176 days 4 hours 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!"

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darkpower - 174 days 14 hours 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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The Killer - 174 days 7 hours ago

MJ.

he is the best singer/artist existed in man kind!!!

and he was a victim of the children fraud cases. he loved children but his enemies and man kind enemies used that to attack him!!

even some of the children admitted they lies for money
http://awkwardstar.wordpres...

for michael, may u rest in peace michael or MIKAEEL the muslim name.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...

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The Killer - 174 days 6 hours ago

MJ: was the king of kings in pop/rock music

MJ: was against zionist and refused to sing for their evil deeds(cheap and dirty songs like 99% of today's singers)

MJ: the zionist got angry of him and carried their threats to him and sent children to destroy his image

MJ: was badly hurt by all those zionist lies with the children on him
http://awkwardstar.wordpres...

MJ: learned about islam and he discovered why the zionist hate islam

MJ: accepted islam as his faith in God/Allah
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...

MJ: he pissed off even more zionist and others anti islam

MJ: wanted to come back to stage again but this time as a muslim singer

MJ: the zionist wouldnt allow that at any cost
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

MJ: the zionist carried the murder of him like they did to many artists before!!!!!

MJ: if u died as a muslim then i will definitely see u in paradise and we will talk a lot!!!! see u in paradise Micheal Jackson!!

MJ: may allah forgive u for ur sins and make the judgement day easy on u!!!

peace........................ .............

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The Killer - 174 days 6 hours ago

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u will be missed from all over the world and to hell those who made lies on u!!!!!!

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Steven Colbert - 174 days 14 hours ago

Your a fool.MS is not commenting on MJ's death because they had no association with him.Sony Music has the rights to the Michael Jackson music and SEGA had many games with his influence including Sonic 3,Moonwalker and Space Channel 5.Seriously get that through your head

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Kigmal - 174 days 14 hours ago

deafphat you're a phucking retard that should get thrown over a bridge for being a stupid punk ass b*tch. Go suck on your moms tits some more you stupid phuckface.

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Shane Kim - 174 days 13 hours ago

Gotta agree with deaphat. Here we have one of the gratest music stars to ever grace the world and MS are just sitting and doing nothing. Now I hate you even more Bill Gates and everyone working on that God forsaken, sh!t stained company.

R.I.P Michael.

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DeathroW22 - 173 days 21 hours ago

Yeah, because microsoft didn't put the thriller video up for free with a tribute to MJ up on xbox live, did they?

Oh wait, they did!

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LarVanian - 174 days 11 hours ago

People like you need professional help.

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saimcheeda - 174 days 9 hours ago

..................your an idiot!!!

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jeseth - 174 days 7 hours ago

you guys have the best 2nd place team 201 million dollars can buy!

LMAO at the Yankees. All that money and you guys haven't won in almost 10 years!

And people are buying his music like mad because there is always a spike in the sales of peoples work who pass away. Add in the fact that Michael was arguably the greatest performer to ever live and yeah, he's going to sell a ****load of Cds, downloads, records, etc.

a little less ignorance please.

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Eiffel - 173 days 17 hours ago

Calling someone an idiot while using your instead of you're(you are) only makes you contradict your statement.

MASSIVE FAIL!

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BLuKhaos - 173 days 19 hours ago

blow it out your crusty vagina.

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LarVanian - 173 days 12 hours ago

Leave rjackson1 alone BLuKhaos, he is just having period pain.

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LarVanian - 173 days 10 hours ago

Well to be frankly honest the fact that you are writing back with angry replies shows that you care about what we write.
If you didn't care you would just ignore us.
And to tell you the truth I could care less if nobody here realized I died, since I don't know anybody here personally. I already have a family and lots of friends who would mourn me lol.
Now get out your tampons, I'm pretty sure you've made a mess of where you are sitting lol.

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