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Qwark on 09 March 2018

The PS3 is arguably the biggest fail in gaming history. It evaporated all PS2 profits.



Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar

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Seventizz on 09 March 2018
Zones said:
Seventizz said:

As predicted, someone didn’t get it.  Yes I got my credit back - but I had a strike against my account.  Meaning if I’m hacked again, I’m SoL.  I need that as a customer?  Also, as I brought up - the playstation brand is more of an afterthought for me so why bother?

I fully got it. You became paranoid over a common customer support comment.

You're simply just assuming that you got a strike and you will be SoL if you were to be hacked again. There's no evidence, in your case (based on your story), to prove otherwise. Personally speaking, I have been given multiple 'one time gesture' refunds from various companies.

Oh and since PS was not significant to you either way, why come here and share a rant about how you became paranoid over nothing? What's the relevance between your story and the topic in question exactly?

Huh?  My issue is completely related to the thread.  Why are you arguing with me?



Rab on 09 March 2018

Selling HW at a loss



AlfredoTurkey on 09 March 2018

Its between the fuck up that was the pre-slim PS3 era or the balls to try to compete with Nintendo in the handheld arena. You choose.



Oneeee-Chan!!! on 09 March 2018

IMO, PS3 didn't need BD drive.



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Zones on 09 March 2018
Seventizz said:
Zones said:

I fully got it. You became paranoid over a common customer support comment.

You're simply just assuming that you got a strike and you will be SoL if you were to be hacked again. There's no evidence, in your case (based on your story), to prove otherwise. Personally speaking, I have been given multiple 'one time gesture' refunds from various companies.

Oh and since PS was not significant to you either way, why come here and share a rant about how you became paranoid over nothing? What's the relevance between your story and the topic in question exactly?

Huh?  My issue is completely related to the thread.  Why are you arguing with me?

Your 'issue' is most certainly not relevant to this topic.

The topic asks "what is Sony's biggest mistake" with the content of the topic clearly giving examples of business decisions Sony made that in a hindsight were poor business decisions to Sony.

Your unnecessary rant would probably be relevant on a topic titled 'what made you dislike/hate Sony?'.

As it stands, you shared an anecdotal story that absolutely had nothing to do with the topic.

Admit it and move on.



Manlytears on 09 March 2018
Qwark said:
The PS3 is arguably the biggest fail in gaming history. It evaporated all PS2 profits.

Lauch ps3, yeah, they lost lots of money. Most likely playstation lowest moment ever, but after ps3 slim sony managed to make profit and started to regain market and, in the end, ps3 managed to put sony in a great place ( even before ps4 sony was the one selling more consoles, at the end of wii life to this moment.)

Sony lost money on ps3, fact, but money isn't everything. Ps3 was a console whit amazing sales and games, it manage to recover from the "wrost console" and " sony is doomed" and sold over 80M ( never before a console managed to make such recovery, it surpassed x360 sales and managed to hit 80% of wii sales). it's far from the biggest fail ever, I even dare to say it did much better than many nintendo consoles and the OG xbox. 

 

About sony greatest mistake...   start a pissing contest with samsung in the electronics market, especially in the TVs and cell phones market. They never had a chance, samsung was sponsored by the korean government, fighting with samsung cost millions for sony.

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pokoko on 09 March 2018
Seventizz said:
pokoko said:

Not to mention that it's an even bigger problem with Xbox, as Microsoft passwords can be quite valuable because accounts are often tied to other things outside video-gaming.  Crackers and scammers go after them hard.  Microsoft outsources basic Xbox customer service, like most other companies, and thieves use some damn sophisticated techniques.  If security is a "huge red flag" then they should probably drop Xbox, too.

Source--I used to work with Xbox.

Ive been with XBL for over 13 years and I’ve never been hacked.  Luck?  Possibly.  But I do know they have less hacking issues than PSN.  I learned a lot when I was hacked by psn - they have some serious security issues, or at least they did when I did my research.

 

ironically, I worked for SCEA too at one point in time lol.

Source?

Microsoft accounts have an absolute ton of interface points and users and it's WAY more popular of a target.  They're not even in the same league in that regard.  

I'm not sure how you were hacked by PSN, however.  



ryuzaki57 on 09 March 2018

Abandoning Vita and refusing a Vita successor



 

Blog -> https://ryuz4ki57inenglish.wordpress.com/

Seventizz on 09 March 2018
Zones said:
Seventizz said:

Huh?  My issue is completely related to the thread.  Why are you arguing with me?

Your 'issue' is most certainly not relevant to this topic.

The topic asks "what is Sony's biggest mistake" with the content of the topic clearly giving examples of business decisions Sony made that in a hindsight were poor business decisions to Sony.

Your unnecessary rant would probably be relevant on a topic titled 'what made you dislike/hate Sony?'.

As it stands, you shared an anecdotal story that absolutely had nothing to do with the topic.

Admit it and move on.

The topic is ‘sony’s biggest mistake’ and I brought up PSN which I have had issue with.  I don’t know how I could be more on topic than that.  Others have brought it up too.  Also, I didn’t say I hate them - you got defensive and just assumed it’s where I was going.