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DonFerrari on 09 May 2014
SvennoJ said:
The removal of OtherOS / Linux from the PS3 caused the biggest meltdown.

George Hotz felt justified to hack and publish the encryption keys as reprisal.
Sony targeting hackers for prosecuting in court stirred up Anonymous.
Lulzsec former part of Anonymous hacked PSN in 2011, which went down for a month with 70 million accounts stolen.
Which led to Sony being questioned by different government agencies around the world, several lawsuits and fines, and an estimated 171 million dollar loss.


That is a really good one. And have put Anonymous on the frame because they ended endangering common folks.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 09 May 2014
Goatseye said:
I wouldn't mind people that down play games for futile reasons. You should do the same if you don't mind my suggestion.


I don't mind them (even more on genres I don't have interest).

Hope you have been enjoying your TF while it's hot... do you think it will keep kicking when new CoD and/or TF2 release?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Xen on 09 May 2014

Easily the XBO reveal and subsequent insanity. People saying FF XIII just don't remember it well.



SirGalahad on 09 May 2014

When Nintendo betrayed Sony for Philips and the Xbox One reveal. And I don't really get why so many people are saying FF going multiplat, because, Sony never pays for 3rd party exclusives. I would consider that Destiny a game from Bungie that is also coming to the PS3&PS4 with exclusive content and first Béta is a bigger meltdown.



DarkD on 09 May 2014

Are you talking about hypothetical meltdowns or historical meltdowns? I am guessing historical.

Atari 2600 was probably the worst of all time.

Sega leaving the console making industry was pretty bad. People don't seem to realize that as a third party they don't really care enough to perfect a game before it releases.

Rare going to microsoft is a close third. We have forever lost one of the greatest development teams of all time, and I don't think the outlook of their franchises is much better.

I'm somewhat torn about this next one. Sony pisses me off in a lot of ways but they did fix Nintendo's crummy attitude and they expanded the gaming industry many times over. I think they were necessary at first, but they've done horrible things in the last generation that has forever ruined countless franchises.



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SpongyFondue on 09 May 2014

I think the legendary Rare becoming a developer for kinect games is not a meltdown but a sad waste.



jlmurph2 on 09 May 2014

Probably the gaming crash when 97% of the money from gaming just vanished in 2 years. Then FF13, the tears...oh the tears.



celador on 09 May 2014

Final Fantasy XIII going multiplatorm, especially on Neogaf. The embarrasing posts about the death of Playstation that was meant to come about from that is still referenced today.

Also looking forward to some possible meltdowns later this year



bigtakilla on 09 May 2014

I'd say Bayonetta 2 meltdown. We had both MS and Sony fanboys losing it for a while and it was hilarious! Mega64 even made a great video titled "The Bayonetta Suicides",



bfydik on 09 May 2014

Capcom Reusing Ps2 Monster hunter assets over and over.