Sony is Evil...

[ninjannihilator]

At this rate they're digging their own grave but with the money they make with everything else, they PS4 will come out. Hopefully by then SCE will stop acting like egotistical morons.

[ITOS]

Sony screws up the PS3, SOE screws up MMOs and now my DVD is FUBAR. SE is the only thing I still like about Sony...

[ninjannihilator]

Sony screws up the PS3, SOE screws up MMOs and now my DVD is FUBAR. SE is the only thing I still like about Sony...

I never liked Sony.

[Cvstos]

At this rate they're digging their own grave but with the money they make with everything else, they PS4 will come out. Hopefully by then SCE will stop acting like egotistical morons.

The thing is that they're trying to make the PS3 last a whopping 10 years.  The PS2 lasted for an amazing 6, but 10 years is long enough for their rivals to come up with not one but two new machines in the same timespan.  The GameCube lasted an average 5 years while Microsoft is hoping to keep the cycle fast and furious at just 4 years.

Microsoft has an excellent overall system this time around, and they'll have plenty of units in stock for the holidays combined with undercutting Sony by $200.  This time, Microsoft has a much position against Sony, and I doubt the PS3 will be able to make good on it's 10-year promise.  Hell, knowing Sony's Quality Control I doubt any significant number of PS3 units themselves will last 10 years.

[Kenji]

Including or excluding the undoubtedly large amounts of returns early in the PS3 life due to system malfunctions that SONY systems are oh so good at?

[ninjannihilator]

At this rate they're digging their own grave but with the money they make with everything else, they PS4 will come out. Hopefully by then SCE will stop acting like egotistical morons.

The thing is that they're trying to make the PS3 last a whopping 10 years.  The PS2 lasted for an amazing 6, but 10 years is long enough for their rivals to come up with not one but two new machines in the same timespan.  The GameCube lasted an average 5 years while Microsoft is hoping to keep the cycle fast and furious at just 4 years.

Microsoft has an excellent overall system this time around, and they'll have plenty of units in stock for the holidays combined with undercutting Sony by $200.  This time, Microsoft has a much position against Sony, and I doubt the PS3 will be able to make good on it's 10-year promise.  Hell, knowing Sony's Quality Control I doubt any significant number of PS3 units themselves will last 10 years.

If Microsoft dropped the price of its Core System by $100 it would definitely hurt Nintendo. I'm guessing that they're going to do it next year.

[Zedd]

Well its sad no one found it was the bodies of the people of sony

[DigitalMan]

I can't understand what's up with the Playstations and poor quality. I have a Sony DVD burner, and it's solid as a rock. Absolutely perfect, and I've burned a lot of discs. Yet apparently on the original Playstation, copied discs burned too fast would fry the laser, and in the PS2 slim versions, the laser burns out from normal use, I believe because of a missing resistor. Plus on my Frankenstein-esque PS2 (long story involving a mod-chip and endless stupidity on my part), the glowy orbs don't spin around, which seems like it could hide a deeper malfunction.

I wonder what it would be like if Sony used the same technology in their game consoles as they do in other hardware.

[Jack McSlay]

I can't understand what's up with the Playstations and poor quality. I have a Sony DVD burner, and it's solid as a rock. Absolutely perfect, and I've burned a lot of discs. Yet apparently on the original Playstation, copied discs burned too fast would fry the laser, and in the PS2 slim versions, the laser burns out from normal use, I believe because of a missing resistor. Plus on my Frankenstein-esque PS2 (long story involving a mod-chip and endless stupidity on my part), the glowy orbs don't spin around, which seems like it could hide a deeper malfunction.

I wonder what it would be like if Sony used the same technology in their game consoles as they do in other hardware.

I've even remember Kutaragi criticising PS2's selling numbers due to a lot of users having bought their second PS2s already

anyway, this is amusing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PUWFpZ7DksI

[DigitalMan]

NOOOO! Those poor machines It's so senselessly cruel...

But I find it hilarious that the XBox hardly moved when smacked with a sledgehammer... And kind of frightening that the GameCube can put up with all that o_o;

[Zedd]

Poor xsuck

[Jack McSlay]

the only other product sony does that is notable for its fragility are diskettes, but then again, few people use them anymore

and at 600 bucks I certainly hope the PS3 will be as resistant as this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRhCjglpzh8

[Kitsune Ascendant]

wow. the gamecube certainly lives up to the nintendo seal of "built like a ****in' tank" quality.

[Supercheese]

wow. the gamecube certainly lives up to the nintendo seal of "built like a ****in' tank" quality.

Wow, yeah... that's crazy 

[Vidar]

wow. the gamecube certainly lives up to the nintendo seal of "built like a ****in' tank" quality.

That's because Nontendo makes all their stuff from Nintendium. You can test this by abusing the living hell out of an old (black & white) gameboy.

[Aridas]

I dropped an original Gameboy in mud once. it still worked after i wiped it off. I remember the story of someone's GB surviving a fire.... while the screen was weak and the buttons were fused to the case, the fact that it still worked was a miracle. My GBA, on the other hand... threw it at the ground in anger over how crappy MvsDK was, and the screen part got busted. nothing else, but... the screen was the important part.

[ninjannihilator]

I cracked my Gamecube (there is literally a fissure on it) down the middle and it still works. The only problem is that the fan is extremely loud now.

[Rowne]

I had to comment on this one.

The thing that bothers me most about this is that a great deal of people just aren't aware of how incredibly dirty this is.  Especially the way Sony are continuing to spin it and the fact that they are spinning, majorly.  Well done Sony, you are officially the Microsoft of the console World.

To be honest, I like R-Force(.org)'s response.  I hope importers start selling supremely expensive mugs and giving away free Playstation 3 consoles ad verbatim with those mugs.

As for Nintendo stuff ... well, the Megadrive (Genesis in America) was pretty solid.  Actually I remember a friend of mine tossing his Megadrive out the window just to prove a point, then he took his Revenge of Shinobi cartridge and did everything the manual told him not to and a few more items.

At the end of the day, he had a Megadrive with some seriously scratched casing and a Shinobi cart that was so badly dented (and had lost its sticker from being washed in washing up liquid and dried with a dryer) and scratched up that it would barely fit in the slot.

The crazy barsteward puts it in and turns on the power.  Does it work?

Yes, yes it does.

They don't build them like that anymore.  I wish I had a PC built of whatever the hell Sega used.

I'm putting my money on pure Gekaganium Alloy.

[bill]

Aw, look, now I have to actually put in a good word for Sony. D:


I just bought a $70 Sony S2 portable CD player, and it's amazing. It feels heavy , like I could throw it against a wall to no effect. What's more, it has a glorious analog volume control. This is Sony gone right. Pity they make too few products like this one.

[Rowne]

Oh, all companies have at least some good sides to them.  Microsoft puts together a decent keyboard, their hardware arm isn't so bad.

I don't know though, it just seems like Sony is getting increasingly worrying.  Considering the rootkits, the DRM they have on their media players (I had to sell a Sony MP3 player my Grams bought to get her a Creative one so she could actually use the ruddy thing) and all this stuff now with their consoles, they seem to be at the start of a slippery slope.

They are a big company though so they're not all bad.  SOE created a few decent MMOs, they might not always run them well but they are decent.  PlanetSide is nice.

Credit where credit is due, I suppose.  I just don't like where they're going.

[King Of Hearts]

heh, looks like Play-Asia already folded to Sony's nagging as wel... pity.