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Gballzack on 18 June 2007
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windbane said:

1. Yes, because porn is hardly important. It's all over the internet for free and cheaper and more varied than any "movie." Sony is not going to care about anything else being on blu-ray. Despite Sony's good intentions, porn is still on blu-ray anyway. Moot point, really. Again, you ignore that Nintendo is hurting gamers with friend codes for the same reason Sony is not helping porn.

2. Piracy protection will go as far as it wants in order to assure the movie companies they are trying. No issue here, especially as far as Sony's morals. Get over the rootkit thing, it does not define Sony. You say Nintendo has transformed since their mistakes, and yet Sony can't admend mistakes? Non-issue. All companies do some things wrong. Nintendo takes measures to prevent piracy as well. I'm not sure many attempts to prevent piracy can be looked at as unethical unless it hurts a consumer in some other way. Even then, it's understandable. Piracy is wrong, not trying to stop it.

3. No, you do not need blu-ray. You do not need HD. You don't need videogames to progress at all. But it's sure nice when they are able to, isn't it? Well, I think so.

4. Yes, you are a hopeless fanboy, at least so far. You are the most negative person on these forums right now. All you do is attack Sony as if they killed your family. I'm really sorry if they did. You should get the police to look into it. "Any argument you can make against Nintendo is purely opinionative, irrelevant or without factual basis." That's such a ridiculous statement. Are you trying to tell me that Nintendo has done nothing to upset videogame players? Really? I would have my Wii by now if that were true. I hope you don't also think Microsoft hasn't done anything unethical. I really dislike a lot of the things Microsoft does but if they gave me a better reaso nto buy a 360 I'd get one. Would you? Are you that against a company, at least Sony, that you will never reconsider anything? Because, honestly, you seem the most set in your beliefs than just about anyone that has ever posted here. I really hope that you don't continue to waste your intelligence on hating so much. Please don't.

No, I am going to buy a Wii, but there are just as many problems with the Wii right now as there are with the PS3. I think the 360 has slightly more problems, but that's my opinion. I try not to let my opinions completely blind me of the truth, though. I wish you'd try harder.

 

1. Its not whether porn needs to be on disc format or not that is the problem. The problem is that Sony is trying to enforce moral standards (whether it be porn or anything else) on the consumer through a disc monopoly. Why is this so hard for you to understand. Porn is the example , not the issue.

And no, Friend Codes don't hurt people. Why, was your mom beat up by a Wii friend code? The friend codes are an inconvenience at best and no one but Sony and MS gamers voice any concern over it. Trying to compare something so trivial as typing in numbers to Sony's moral edicts of social conformity being enforced through a media monopoly is just sad. How can you be so petty as to think something as insignificant as a Wii Friend Code could possibly trump anything I had to say or was a damning point?

2. Again you're dodging the issue with wide sweeping generalizations and self assumed opinions presented as fact. What has Sony done to show us they've changed? Made a console that doesn't sell?

Perhaps the rootkits themselves don't define Sony, but couple it with dumping millions of dollars annually into consumer invasive anti-piracy development, Viral Marketing, use of abandoned buildings as cheap billboards, public displays of arrogance and disregard for the consumer "people will work two jobs to buy a PS3", Plans to privatize a consumer disc format, and frivilous lawsuits with third party contractors... paints a rather convincing picture of an unscrupulous company. Saying all companies make mistakes doesn't mean some don't make more than others. Saying all companies make mistakes doesn't excuse a consistant trend of doing so. Saying all companies make mistakes doesn't excuse the fact that the mistakes one Company makes is at the cost of the consumer.

3. I will need HD, yes... five to ten years from now. Until then I don't see the need to decide on an expensive propriotary disc format with a non-existant market or for that matter feel the need to force this said disc format it into a video game console which only an estimated 10% of the consumer HD-TV market (that's 1% of the consumer market as a whole) can use with the PS3 at its true intended capacity. Somehow I fail to see the impending urgency of the situation.

4. Really, because you're the one constantly on the defensive, dodging the questions and making after-the-fact excuses, not I. I can at least admit the Wii is not perfect and is a modest compromise of what most people want in gaming. You on the otherhand are incapable of recognizing Sony as being anything morally worse than a Nun. You can't even fathom gaming at anything but 1080dpi this generation. You can't even being to imagine why anyone wouldn't want to run head long into an new unproven propriotary disc format with reckless abandonment. You're the fanboy whether you want to admit it or not, the lack of substance and dancing around the issue in your replies is proof enough of that. Oh, and I may be negative, but I'm also right. :)