Will Sony get cocky next generation?

[Rafie]

AsGryffynn said:

Hence why I illustrate them as my personal choices, but I think some are outright lack of oversight or thinking they don't have to when yes, if your competitor apparently seems to be trying, you do have to or you will be thought of as not trying as hard as they are. Intent represents a lot of what the company will do to obtain new customers. If a guy offered me 100,000 dollars and another offered me 10,000 but the former only cut his arm and the other was willing to saw off all his limbs for the sake of impressing me, I'd take the later in a heartbeat only to keep him or her from harming himself in a horrible way. 

 

• Until they allow external content, I am afraid they will not have my support. Part of the mod's advantage was free content generation, ambience manipulation... In other words, creating a completely different game striking your fancy. This might only be achievable with external content. 
• The problem seems to be convenience. It's not as easy to buy and install an external HD as it might be a SSD or HDD. 
• No support for thumb drives either. But the most annoying part was there's no reason not to. The hardware has the ability to handle it (all Linux/FreeBSD systems do). 
• In other words, they aren't allowing it because they don't want to. When a decision has negligible costs, when it isn't done anyways, it hints at an arrogant approach to options for the user. 
• Again, arrogance. Why? Because the cost will be non existent! They still say "lol no". Seriously, if people want X, you give it to them, especially when it will help your audience. 
• The problem with this was that they still leave a lot to be desired compared to MS and charge the same bloody price. You improve the service first and then charge the same price or charge slightly less. Now they're matching the price I'd expect the same performance, but if they are to be trusted, almost everyone says the service works the same. 
• And I still wonder why Sony will not change things around, especially when many of these games are more expensive on those stores anyways. 
• Fair enough. I think PC support represents a positive, but might be a fad or something they aren't able to do with the same efficiency as their competitors. 
• As a whole, you'd be surprised at the amount of adverts for the PSV these games obtained. 
• Seriously, it was annoying. I really hope they decide hostility against these games might be the best way not to look hypocritical (we are promoting Monster Monpiece and then blocking DOAX3... Seriously?) 

The thing with Sony was their marketing didn't have the whole DRM bollocks tacked to it and they didn't tell the whole world they were doing this sort of stuff... But they had gradually started to tighten control of their environment, from the region locking, to the price hikes, to promoting games years before they appear... To having a laundry list of games that sell well below expectations and supporting them anyways because devs believe they are inherently better... To announcing mod support and then announcing half baked variants of these features. 

In other words, the only difference was MS was upfront on what they were planning to do. Sony was planning to do this only when they had a clear lead and thus were unable to be refused. Hell, MS originally limited game sharing on their plans, then when they rolled it back in favor of the UWP approach, they started floating the idea of digital game sales. 

http://ps4daily.com/2013/06/sony-changed-playstation-4-drm-policy-after-xbox-one-outrage/

That was the moment (and owning a PSVita of course) that made me realize they really weren't the heroes everyone made them out to be and that they had effectively not learned from the PS3 fiasco, while MS did learn from the Wii (they were the ones who started the Kinect craze, it wasn't known as the PSEye craze for a reason). 

 

Still what works with one company make not work with another. Just because it's seemingly beneficial to have some of their exclusives on the PC, doesn't mean that it's actually beneficial for them. In this case with the trying hard bit, it doesn't really work here. There's an obvious reason why Sony chose to keep some of their own exclusives from the PC. Which is really smart. Oh and no offense my friend, but that was a weak analogy. Although I do get the sentiment you're relaying.

 

* Just to let you know, the mod support on the Xbox is still abit limited itself. It's not like the PC where you get full range. Sony has directives in place for their console. Hopefully, we'll see something soon with that.

*With the internal HDD it's unbelievably easy. Sure the external is much more easier as you only have to plug it in. However, I'm glad that I can change it internally without the drive being out in the open. Then again, it would be nice to have an external HD option. Like you said....convenience.

*Why do you see it as arrogance for Sony because they didn't add a UHD blu ray drive? People weren't asking for it. I admit it was very strange not to add it, but Sony explained their reason for not having it. I guess the reasons aren't enough as it still doesn't negate the fact that they could have had it. I see that more as a misstep. They added blu ray to the PS3 before it was even the norm. People say that as arrogant because it hiked the price up. Now that they omitted and UHD drive, they're arrogant for not having one.

 

The article you provided still has not given any definitive proof that this was Sony's original idea to have DRM. Then the author goes on to say that it was said by Yoshida himself, but doesn't cite the Famitsu article he supposedly said it on. So it's still a baseless opinion piece. Now I will say that Sony has their blunders and aren't innocent of some....questionable practices. Still..to make Sony out to be the bad guy this gen isn't fair at all. They all do it. MS was seemingly known for their, again, questionable practices. Just because they turned everything around doesn't give them an all out pass for being the good guy here. They should get praise of their appeasal to the public though. Phil is the best thing that ever happened to Xbox. If Mattrick was still heading Xbox, I'm not sure if we would be seeing the Xbox we see today.

Oh and there's a gift and curse to announcing games mad early. While some gamers don't like that because they know that a much anticipated game is confirmed, they would still have to wait a long time. Knowing seems to hurt more when you have to wait. Then there's certain gamers like me who are excited to know that a game that I've been waiting for or may be interested is coming, regardless if I have to wait for it or not. Sony shouldn't be penalized for doing that. At least the games are coming. MS has done that too. Crackdown 3 is a good example of this. I think you should reevaluate your stance on Sony when you compare them to MS, objectively. You will see that those 2 in the video game market are pretty much the same with how they do business. It's really unfair to call out one and not the other. That's why you have the segregation in the gaming community between the big 3. It's one reason why I own all consoles. I don't play the consoles, I just play the games. I never want to miss anything. Each one of them offer something the other doesn't.