Sony can completely disable your PS3

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jarrod said:

Squilliam said:

1. Sony bricks consoles.

2. Outrage, suenami from America etc.

3. Sony exits console market.

4. Sony wonders what they did wrong.

So no, I don't think this means anything. Microsoft can brick your console too, but they sure as hell never tried that.

Pretty much.  The best thing Sony could do is maybe a ban from PSN (Microsoft does this on 360 already), but since it's a "free" service with a smaller active community it probably wouldn't carry quite the same impact as XBL bans do.... in fact it may just end up driving multiplayer bases more towards 360, especially since PS3's vaunted "stand outs" to to be mainly for the single player experiences already (GT5, Uncharted 1-2, GOW3, Valkyria, MGS4, etc, etc).  No one's going to miss HOME and they'll just play COD elsewhere...

This is very true but at least it would give Sony a slight HW boost for a while.