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[Th3Mist3rN3farious]

Jdevil3 said:

Th3Mist3rN3farious said:

Are you seriously suggesting that upon release a PS3 cost $800 to manufacture yet they were retailing them at $600? I used to work at the head office of the largest electronics consumer retailer in the UK and I can tell you something, everything you see as 'a great sale price' etc still has a profit margin in there. Thats the nature of business. Not only would Sony be losing $200 per unit on the manufacturing costs, they'd also be losing cash on inventory and logistical overheads.

And that's exactly what happened... They lost over 6 billion dollars because of selling PS3s for a loss for around 4 years, they've started earning money on each PS3 sold only recently thanks to taking features out and reducing production costs.

If thats the case then I'll glady hold up my hands and say on that specific point I was wrong. It only adds to the fact that Sony's recent corporate decisions seem to be leading them from bad to worse.

It also still leaves the fact that they abused their corporate power to invade the privacy of innocent individuals.

And might I add for all the people saying hacking is wrong and to the OP who actually posted 'Hacking the PS3 software is equivalent to hacking Windows software and I am pretty sure that is illegal' you might find this article of particular interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Whats that? Sony illegally rootkitting thousands of windows machines to track copyright USING LAME and VLC code which they werent legally permitted to use. Pot calling the kettle black if you ask me.