Gballzack said:
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. :)
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1. I see below this post I quote you finally admitted that Sony is not blocking porn. Baby steps, I guess.
Nintendo requiring friend codes to play online for the DS and Wii is worse than not publishing porn. A lot of gamers don't like it, because it's annoying. Nintendo is doing it to "protect" gamers from the hordes of bad people that can kill them online. I wish Nintendo would have more of an open policy when it comes to online content.
2. Every company puts money into anti-piracy. You don't see the worth in that? You'll notice that hd-dvd and Nintendo also have anti-piracy measures. Btw, you can say I dodge the issue all you want but you can see I directly respond to you every time. Trying to belittle my responses doesn't make your comments any more true and is a waste of your intelligence and time.
3. All hd-dvd can do is hang on, because despite the only advantage they have from cheaper players right now, blu-ray is outselling hd-dvd. More studios, superior format. I sure wish you'd provide some link or quote for your made up statistics, though. I've asked for that before and you have yet to provide it. If you'd like, I can provide links for blu-ray versus hd-dvd sales this year, but I think you know I'm right. At worst, both formats survive and blu-ray continues to have more movies released for it. Btw, blockbuster is on blu-ray's side now. You can check google news for that news bit.
4. I finally got you to admit the Wii isn't the best thing ever. Great. As for your attacks, I don't have hdtv so I can imagine life without 1080p so far, and I understand why people are hesitant to adopt blu-ray. Right now it is $500 to get a 1080p blu-ray player. Despite that, blu-ray outsells hd-dvd and now blockbuster has decided to take out hd-dvd from most of their stores due to better sales from blu-ray. The decision to include blu-ray in the PS3 is obviously the main reason for the sales and blockbuster's decision. Just because the war isn't over yet does not mean I can't recognize the better format. Blu-ray has higher transfer speeds, more space, is scratch proof, more studio support (all but Universal), burners and bd-r for PCs. The only advantage hd-dvd has it the player price advantage (discs are cheaper on blu-ray now).
When dvds were being formed, Sony and Phillips had their own format they wanted to release just like they did for CDs. However, toshiba and others had their DVD and convinced Sony and Phillips to forgo a format war and help out with DVDs. This time, Toshiba and company is the odd group out and did not go with Sony and other's format and decided to go with a format war because they wanted royalties. It's unfortunate, because blu-ray is clearly the superior format and it would have been great for all to agree on it. That does not mean blu-ray will win, but I still think it was good for the format war for Sony to include the blu-ray drive in the PS3. It does not bother me that they are doing that to help the format, because I support the superior format and hope it wins out. If they had all agreed, blu-ray players would be cheaper right now. Toshiba is the company to blame here, not Sony. But I digress.
I understand the good points of the Wii, as I plan to get one. That does not mean blu-ray isn't going to be extremely useful this generation. As I've said, Stranglehold's inclusion of a full 1080p movie on the same disc for $10 more is proof enough of the advantage. Strangehold is the sequel to Hard Boiled. I think game sizes will get bigger like they do all the time, and if you disagree then let's just agree to let it go.
