Its not ridiculous.. It is simply wrong. But This is commonly expected behavior from a company that demands you willingly abandon your rights, So that you may access one of the selling features of the console you legally purchased.
You know, I saw What Jim Said, on how whining about it is the most effective thing to do, and yes it is in a sense. However it is NOT the only thing you can, or should be doing. Its not just going on forums and preaching, Its making your actions count and that you stand behind your actions. So I think the boycott thing must also be firmly in place too, as do I think that every gamer right now needs to be filing weekly reports to the Federal Trade Commission over these transgressions and do not stop until we see this forced to the surface and officially addressed in open public forum, Instead of in the late night dwellings in lawyers offices and paralegal drafting boards.
Honestly... This is not just a gaming issue. These issues are simply deeply neglected symptoms of a much greater illness, and the biggest cause of its rampant spread is directly due to widespread apathy and copious amounts of neglect for the welfare of ones self and that of others.
We seriously need to start banding together to start viable dialog on how we as a society of civilized people will not be herded into a coral of Corpratocracy, and what steps will can and will take to impede, and in fact repel the clear march it makes.
(Or you can just ignore the seemingly deranged ramblings of someone suffering REMDepro and lost touch with reality, but not sure if thats me or the other me or not all of us. But I should know by tomorrow, thursday at the latest.
KAT DENNINGS FOR UNQUESTIONED QUEEN OF ALL!!!!)
Sorry, Sorry. Got off track there.
Yes, It is simple. It was originally a selling feature of the console. Technically no matter how it was justified it was wrong to remove hardware emulation at any time. But if that actually does open a window to reduce hardware production cost in a new form of that product, so be it, but the software emulation even then existed and at no time EVER should that been taken away. Even if it was 50% emulation, Its obviously no longer at that rate because they now proactively sell these titles. They have clearly worked around the hardware limitations of timing the old Emotion engine and its corresponding parts to the current PS3 hardware, be it bypassing those run clocks, or optimized synronization or how ever it has been accomplished, The simple fact it has been accomplished, From the moment they sold the first PS2 games via network The network should have also been immediately patched to enable any form of existing PS3 to run backwards compat, Specifically because... It always has, and technically always will be thru the life of the console, a selling feature.
Now if Sony learns from the mistake and decides no way in hell Backwards compat on PS4, SO long as that is consistent through the life span the console is supported, It technically is their product. But the moment you give, then take away, your no longer operating on the up and up, and low leading into the realm of shady corpratized buisness practices that will only bring you down slower, and simply delay your demise, but, Whatever.
