deadish said:
Sony was nice enough to warn about
I stopped reading there. I forgot I'm supposed to be bloody grateful that my console's online network is using stupidly incompetent online security standards and managed to lose pretty much it's entire "secure database" online, all because they were
nice enough to warn us.
Lets see,
proprietary formats - it's their right to use whatever format they want; also 360 hard-drives are proprietary as well, back at
Yes, it is their right to use whatever they want. Which makes it retarded when they purposefully use proprietary Sony-only hardware ALL THE TIME, especially when it's not necessary. As pissed as I am about not being able to get a 500 GB hard drive into my 360, at least it's large enough that it doesn't matter; when the PSP came out and had woefully small storage, I was under the assumption my 8 GB SD card would work just fine.
Oh no no no, it MUST be Memory Stick.
...Pro
....Duo.
I will grant you that the PS3 has the (somewhat) redeeming feature of using your own hard drive provided you void your warranty and open it up.
notoriously bad security - breachs happen, valve got breach, besathda got breach, even MS got breach some time in the past and Windows' source code got stolen.
....so everyone else has had it once, that excuses it? Surely you know that Sony's security breaches were a hell of a lot larger than Bethesda's or Valve's...
And my god, I can't believe you just brought up the Windows source code leak. What was that, like 20, 25 years ago?
Cell processor - calculated risk; you try something new there is always a risk it will not work out. But it honestly isn't that bad.
There was nothing "calculated" about it. Sony wanted it. Game developers did not. Guess who won that battle? It's ok though, you can take a wild guess and figure out who's winning the battle now. (Hint; it's not Sony)
BluRay player into their PS3 - that's their decision; i don't see how you are affected; what are you so pissed about, you got a free bluray player and have all your games come on one disc; better than buy MS's HD-DVD addon which is now completely useless
It doesn't affect
me. I was smart enough to not buy it on launch day. It
did however affect the price. It seems you don't realize this, but you didn't get a "free" Blu-Ray player, it was very much factored into the price. It added
two hundred dollars onto the price compared to the 360 at launch, so you were forced to pay the premium for a feature you might not used, a feature that required you to buy (at the time) very expensive BluRay discs.
Sony had been losing $200 per console produced, and that very, very slowly went down, and it took until 2010 before it finally stopped losing money on each PS3 produced. [http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/06/29/ps3-no-longer-sold-at-loss/]
How many multi-disk games do you know of anyway? I can think of Mass Effect 2, Battlefield 3, and Forza 3/4. I can't really think of anything else.
Who cares about HD-DVD? It didn't cost me extra in my console, can't say the same for the PS3, can I?
utterly useless nature of the PSP (except for piracy) - LOL now you are really stretching it; at least it's more useful than the 360 HD-DVD addon
Fact: The PSP was/is/always will be a pirate's paradise. It was uselessly designed (looking at you, analog nub), hopelessly marketed to a confused generation, used a (surprise surprise) proprietary UMD drive (not even MiniDisc, which would have made it somewhat flexible), and had few games worth playing.
I bet I can find more HD-DVD movies worth watching than there are PSP games worth playing. Want to know why? Because game developers stopped caring about it.
DualShock 3 into the controllers at first - business decision; they were being sued at the time over the rumble. I will give you this one, but it's not really a big deal IMO. It's just rumble.
Really? Have you ever played a shooter or a racing game with vibration off? It feels tinny and lifeless. People wanted their controller to vibrate when they get hit, not have some half-assed motion gizmo in their controller. But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that people had to go out and replace perfectly good controllers because Sony couldn't add in a basic feature in the first place.
The Move was just to cash in on motion control, they didn't put much effort in as you can tell. Good thing for them too, as the fad died around the time it came out. Unlike a certain other company that invest a shit ton in "motion control" that was released at about the same time and is still trying to sell it to us - even when most people don't want it.
You're deluded. Although I don't own a Kinect, I follow it's news. Here's some facts for you (that you obviously don't know)
In it's first 60 days of retail availability, the Kinect sold
8 million units [http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Kinect-Confirmed-As-Fastest-Selling-Consumer-Electronics-Device/blog/3376939/7691.html], which is faster than the iPhone or the iPad in the same 60 days of launch. It also landed them a Guiness World Record. If that's not a sign that plenty of people want it (keeping in mind it costs $150), I don't know what it is.
But no, you still think that's wrong. That's ok. You're probably right, no one wants it. That's why it's sold 18 million units [http://www.1up.com/news/xbox-36-sales-66-million] as of January 2012 (12-13 months after it's November 2010 launch), which, to give you some relative perspective, is almost 30% of the lifetime PSP sales over the past 8 years (70 million).
The Playstation Move? It took 7 months from it's launch date to hit 8.8 million units sold, and Sony is too ashamed of its sales to give us anything more recent than June of 2011.
In the future, if you're going to make a claim like that, and you have such a vast fact-checking tool to confirm what you say, do yourself a fucking favor and actually look it up, mkay? The truth is
you don't want it.
I can't be assed to list what Sony has contributed. It's going to be wasted on you anyway.
You mean you're terrified of bringing anything more than "BUT THEY DID IT TOO SO IS OK" because you know I'll rip it to pieces.
This was hilarious. We must do this dance again sometime.
