Sony Says Profits More Important than Beating Microsoft

[GonzoGamer]

You know that wiki doesn't help your argument. It basically points out that the improvements have been pretty lame, especially as of late.

Yeah, lol, nice I specifically state it's Wiki and you use it as an argument point against *rolls eyes* Get real. The improvements you see as lame, are still improvements, whether you like them or not is irrelevant.

I'm also glad to see you also feel sorry for anyone who has to use the ps3 as their main web browser. I don't even use it to show things to friends when they're over, I prefer to use my netbook. If they did give it even the minimal support it would need to run on a basic level (all it does now is freeze the ps3) it would actually be handy; not for everyday browsing but definitely for when guests are over. So while they haven't removed it from the firmware, they may as well have when you consider how useless their neglect has rendered it.

Yeah, I do feel sorry for these people, up to a point. Guests have no problem seeing my 24" monitor, and playing games on my PS3. A non-issue for me.

And why should I ***** at MS about their patent on their way of doing custom soundtracks? They obviously haven't been able to stop devs from including custom soundtracks in their ps3 titles: occasionally you come across one that has the feature and I don't think they're stopping sony from forcing devs to include it like they have to for the worthless trophies. And besides that, sony should be able to hire someone clever enough to find a way around their patent either legally or technically. I worked to earn the money to buy the damn thing, I shouldn't have to work further on getting some of the cooler functions to be more consistent. That's their job.

Because MS' patent forced Sony devs to find workarounds to that issue. They couldn't use the exact same functionality without paying royalties to MS. That's why. Don't have to ***** at MS for it, but not Sony's fault they don't want to pay more money to MS.

The ps3 has also lost backwards compatibility and the ability to play sacd. I know a lot of people have said that they needed to take out the hardware that made it capable of doing those things in order to make it more cost effective but once again, they should have some clever people working on how to implement these functions on the hardware that it still has (which is quite robust) rather than abandoning it all together.

My PS3 runs BC just fine, it's why I paid $600 for it. Your PS3 doesn't, that's why you paid less. If you wanted BC, you should've gotten the original. Sorry, but that's simply a fail argument.

I know you say that they need to pay attention to more important things but what's more important than wowing the customer enough that we will be willing to lay down the hundreds of dollars for the next ps console.

Plenty of customers are wow'd, the vocal minority are peeved however, fortunately, they are simply the minority and can be readily ignored, for the most part.

We will see. I know a lot of people who went from ps to xbox this gen and I know more who wont be sticking with the ps next gen. Their losing more and more of their base and who knows how long they can do that for.
I had a ps3 that did BC but it broke and in between my initial purchase and the replacement, the only one available under my warranty had the BC and a bunch of hardware features missing. So they still screwed me even if they had some help from Best Buy.
And they are even more pathetic than I can imagine if they can't find a workaround for MS's custom music patent because they already have some games that have it. It's not a consistent feature though. Not that impressive.
Did you look at the wiki. I know it's just a wiki but look at some of the "improvements" there. Like wow, people who bought crap on psn can rate said crap. That's amazing, how can people complain when we can rate dlc.
So why did they bother with the web browser if it's so useless and they didn't intend to support it? The resources they put into that epic fail could have been better used.
You bring a very good point to mind though, if from the beginning they decided that the ps3 would just play games and br movies (the only things the firmware can really handle at this point), they could've made it a lot cheaper.
My problem is that my ps3 reminds me of the govenment, plenty of resources power and influence yet the only things it does is the bare minimum and a very far off from what we were promised.