I don't know what Sony's motives are. I speculated that perhaps they wanted to have a more "family friendly" library (which could be motivated by many factors, such as profit, brand protection/reputation, moral considerations, etc.). A more family friendly library than what they would otherwise have, was my point. Not family friendly per se. Of course they still have MK, GoW, etc., etc.
I'm not even a fan of Sony and am not really interested in defending them further.
Maximizing sales.
Like every piece of tech or social media, the second they hit a critical mass they think it right, a company will go into curation mode. At the moment of time, they feel they have enough sales, users and growth to keep on trucking, at the expense of losing the small number of people or products that seem more like a black eye image.
Since tech/social media needs a fast ramp up, they will let slide stupid things because they need the user base. That's why they never go ballsy on curation at the beginning stages.
It's like Apple.
Way back, it was all about being a rebel, PC users are morons, IBM is boring etc..... The second they got U2 to promote iPods and everything snowballed into a humongous mainstream company, all the rebel image BS is thrown out the window. Cash is king.
Believe it or not, lots of loyal Mac users hated when Apple transitioned to Intel and running MS Office. But money talks.
Now it's all about conforming to the masses with cookie cutting specs and mass appeal...... "I"m a teacher, I'm a doctor, I'm a fireman..... and we all use Apple computers!" Where the fuck was this kind of ad in the 80s and 90s?