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| Damnyouall said: Apparently logical thinking isn't everyone's strong suit. Imagine you could only use a special licensed stereo in your car, pre-approved by the maker of your car. Or special licensed gas. Or special licensed tires. Or windshield wipers. Would you call bullshit? Yes you would. Reality check: This is the same. Only because console makers have been doing it for 20 years in order to to maximize profits or to subsidize consoles sold at dumping prices, that doesn't make it right. I applaud their highly successful brainwashing. |
This is really the same thing the makers of printers are trying to do (keep other companies from selling ink or toner cartridges for their devices, for instance by using special lock-out chips). Of course they failed with this; it's perfectly legal for other companies to manufacture and sell ink/toner cartridges.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
