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“If you don’t like it, don’t buy it”, former Sony Interactive boss says of Ghost of Yōtei character design ‘controversy’

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The character design for Sony‘s Ghost of Yōtei is officially ‘controversial’, apparently. Why? Simply because the upcoming follow-up to the hit PS4 game Ghost of Tsushima features a female samurai, and it seems that in 2024 some people are deeply offended by a developer choosing to make a woman the lead character of a game.

Such has been the response that now even the former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, Shawn Layden, has weighed in. And he’s made an eminently sensible suggestion: “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.”

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