Quote Originally Posted by Rhysati View Post
While I would tend to agree with you, I see no world where Matsuda would walk back everything he just said to the shareholders. He just went on and on praising this technology as the future of the world and how much money it's going to make all of them. He can't turn around now and go: "Remember all that stuff I said? I was wrong about literally everything!"
Especially considering the language he used seems to indicate that they've already got a lot invested in this.
They're not just testing the waters so there's likely too much steam behind it to simply walk it back.
From the letter:

To address these changes in our business environment, the medium-term business strategy that we unveiled in May 2020 identified AI, the cloud, and blockchain games as new domains on which we should focus our investments, and we have subsequently been aggressive in our R&D efforts and investments in those areas.