| Soleron said: When you buy an online-enabled game or console, there needs to be a guaranteed minimum server time listed on the product so people can make informed choices. I find it strange they'd end support for 100m units of hardware before the successor's sold 4m. |
Strongly agree.
Personally, I don't care about this particular case as my Wii, along with my PSP, belongs to my pirate past and I've barely connected it to the Internet anyway (btw, my new, totally-non-pirate self(*) isn't retroactive). That said, the lack of consumer rights regarding digital content is really worrying.
I bought a PS3 and a Vita last year, and decided to go digital-only since. The reason? Even full-priced games are much cheaper than physical copies where I live (using an American PSN account). I've spent so much money on PS Store already, and the other day I read this:
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*** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT *** You can no longer download new content from the Comics Store. |
Translating: "Hey y'all. This shit isn't working out for us, so fuck you!" -Sony
This time, it didn't affect me. But after watching the E3, the new consoles being completely isolated from current-gen with no backward compatibility, I can't help myself but think that eventually, they will do the same to all the downloadable content available on their old platforms. Then, I will only have paid for a bunch of fucking files sentenced to remain in a dead box until they get damaged or deleted...
And right now, there's nothing we can do against stuff like this! Let alone the possibility of handing over or reselling the digital content we own. It's crazy...
*Only applicable to video games. Different content like films, movies, e-books and TV shows may still will most definitely be pirated by Naninho.
