{"id":41201,"date":"2012-07-12T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41201"},"modified":"2012-07-12T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:50:21","slug":"kama-sutra-game-rejected-by-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41201-kama-sutra-game-rejected-by-sony","title":{"rendered":"Kama Sutra game rejected by Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone took the idea of &#8220;sex sells&#8221; to a whole new level, when a game developer pitched a Kama Sutra game to Sony during the Playstation 2&#8217;s prominent years.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the ancient Hindu text of sexual positions, the Kama Sutra game was supposed to make use of the PS2&#8217;s EyeToy camera, although\u00a0Sony Computer Entertainment executive producer Pete Smith said that Sony turned it down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a genuine pitch from a developer,&#8221; Smith told Eurogamer, &#8220;who pitched EyeToy Kama Sutra. Seriously, this was a genuine pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, the guy is going to me, &#8216;it&#8217;s like, so there&#8217;s an outline on the screen with the EyeToy&#8230;&#8217; I&#8217;m like, I get it, yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the pitch didn&#8217;t go so well and the game wasn&#8217;t seriously considered for proper development or publication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were talking about it back at the office. Obviously we didn&#8217;t sign it and it never ever saw the light of day. But we were going, how exactly would we QA it? You can imagine these two big hairy testers going, &#8216;No, you&#8217;re the bitch tonight.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the absurd presentation, Smith said he does appreciate ambitious and creative game developers who are passionate about their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I just find strange is, sometimes you get these pitches and you think, this is just bonkers. But the developers absolutely believe in it, which is great. I&#8217;d much rather that than they come along half-hearted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-07-11-eyetoy-kama-sutra-the-game-sony-rejected\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41131-uncharted-rip-off-fps-looks-intriguing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Uncharted rip-off FPS looks intriguing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/40656-women-in-combat.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Women in combat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41041-10-gaming-facts-you-should-know.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 gaming facts you should know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41144-god-of-war-movie-being-penned-by-saw-writers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>God of War movie being penned by Saw writers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41134-expendables-2-video-game-trailer-unleashed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Expendables 2 video game trailer unleashed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony turned down potential goldmine\/disaster <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":41202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,5629,5632,5627,5628,5631,5633,5630,1681],"class_list":["post-41201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-eyetoy","tag-game-pitch","tag-kama-sutra","tag-kama-sutra-game","tag-pete-smith","tag-product-pitch","tag-ps2-eyetoy","tag-sony-computer-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41220,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201\/revisions\/41220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}