Originally posted by: RedStar
"What do you have agianst Sony?"
oh i don't know ---
stealing the walkman
giving people a nasty rootkit
killing starwars galaxies
just to warm up a bit.
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But cmon, the PS3 was gonna hit the shelves at least 100$ move expensive than the 360. So the prices were not gonna come down (esp when MS is already losing a packet).
That the PS3 would be delayed has been well known now (esp when people learned there were no PS3's demo'd --just empty shells)
Putting out cheaply made products instead of the quality stuff they used to build for the same price or more, nasty rootkit fiasco (worth mentioning twice), and last but not least...proprietary formats that are lower quality, lower performance, and cost more than previous generation products (see UMD, MiniDisc, and all the different flavors of MemoryStick).
Ok, MiniDisc was pretty good quality, but you had to record everything in real time. Nope, not spending an hour making a compilation disc that I can only play in my home or on a portable player. CD is equal quality and much more universal.
Edit: This is coming from a guy who owns or has owned a Sony LCD screen remote control, ES Mobile car stereo, PS2, 27in Wega, VHS recorder, 19in Trinitron CRT, and 5disc DVD player. Sony used to put quality first and the name actually meant a quality product. Now everything is low quality, proprietary, and in some cases seems anti-consumer (again, see rootkit fiasco). Given the rootkit issues and their performance over the last few years, I wouldn't trust Sony to allow managed copy of anything any further than I could throw their corporate headquarters. They have proven to me that their only interest is profit and in pursuit of profit they're willing to strip all the consumer's fair use rights away, then charge ridiculous prices for the same content (why is lower quality UMD more expensive than DVD again?) repackaged. Their perception of a customer must be something likened to a dumb sheep.
They won't see another dime out of me.