Hot Coffee Makes List of Dumbest Business Moments

Via Next Generation a list of 2005's Dumbest Business Moments, which rightly lists the Hot Coffee debacle as one of those ignoble icons. From the article: "In June a Dutch programmer releases software that lets players of Take-Two Interactive's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas access sexually explicit content left in the game's source code by its developers. Already marked 'Mature' for 'blood and gore, intense violence, strong language, strong sexual content, and use of drugs,' the game gets rerated 'Adults Only,' causing Target and Wal-Mart to pull it from stores. Take-Two's quarterly revenues fall $40 million short of projections."

Comments

Re:I wonder why a bunch of others are not on this.

[kleptonin]

You're thinking of the Brass Eye special on paedophilia, which was created by Christopher Morris. My girlfriend and I are currently halfway through watching the original series (we are on a kind of Chris Morris binge) on DVD, which includes the special. They're very, very funny. Especially the way they got celebrities of the time to talk about complete rubbish (such as the dangers of a made-up drug called "Cake").

Re:Strange

[NetRAVEN5000]

Normally you might be right, but in this case the rating got bumped up to "AO"("Adults Only") causing Wal-Mart and other stores to take it off the shelves.