https://www.facebook.com/yoichiwada528/posts/949344935120260
Whole post translated by goldpanner:
Simply as someone who knows Mr Kojima, I want to say, how can they be this cruel! But, here are my thoughts from the point of view of a business manager.
No matter how you look at it, this can only be negative for the business.
Perhaps withdrawing substantially from home video games is the management policy, but it makes no sense to make the world your enemy on purpose, is there, now?
Typically, this sort of thing happens when the manager is absent. Perhaps there is no leader to design and watch over the details of the enterprise as a whole. In other words the lack of aim behind this is itself the problem, that's my impression. All the decisions get dumped on the office. The office may deal with it disinterestedly. However, if you can't see when what you feel from your own station is out of sync with the world, then the results will be unfortunate.
There was an article a while ago that referenced similar points concerning the logo change for JAL and ANA (I managed to find the article, so I copied it into the comment section).
They've done a lot for us, but for things to come to this I am a little worried.