| windbane said: 1. Considering I'm morally against porn, I really don't care if Sony tries to block it. I'm sure you are in favor of friend codes, though, because Nintendo is always trying to "protect kids." Which is worse? Friend codes. Oh, and protecting kids from third parties having the same access to online kits. Much worse. 2. The greatest features are already in use for blu-ray: video, audio, scratch proof, more space. Movie studios all want copy protection. They would not support a format that didn't at least try to stop piracy. 3. I think Sony has a great optical format track record. The CD and DVD worked out great. There many problems with DVD-9: it doesn't provide the best audio, it has inferior video quality for HDTVs, it doesn't have the space neccesary for that audio and video, and it's easily damaged. HD-TV is going to be there no matter what movie format we use, because in 2009 every station much broadcast in HD. People want HD because it looks better. Blu-ray is the best format to move forward with HDTVs. Also, I want a quote stating the actual penetration. 4. "While Companies like Nintendo respond to market trends and try to enable new audiences within a market, Sony tries to make, force and enforce trends at the cost of whoever gets in their way." I know you are a hopeless Nintendo fanboy, but Nintendo certainly wants money as much as any other company. They tried to charge way too much for cartridge use for generations and lost third party support for the N64 and Gamecube. Sony is trying to advance the market to HD to make money. Of course they want to make money, but if consumers didn't enjoy the products they wouldn't keep buying them. Saying Sony is forcing people to buy HDTVs is just ignorance. Nintendo is trying to expand the videogame market because they want to make money. All 3 console companies have screwed over fans at many points. Btw...responding to market trends? I think Nintendo is a little late on that internet thing... |
1. So its okay for Sony to tell everyone what they can or can't watch because it personally doesn't bother you. Wonderful logic.
2. But how far should piracy protection go? Do you think the root kits on CDs were ethical? What of Sony's abandoned plans of making it so the PS3 game discs couldn't be played on any other PS3 but the one it was registered to was ethical?
3. But the question is, do we absolutely really need something better than DVD-9 right now when less than 10% of the market has a HD TV? And if its only problems are that its not as good as Blu-Ray, I don't see a need to replace it.
4. A hopeless fanboy? Yes, because I'm the one who tried to supplementing their own personal opinion as justification for a corporation playing the role of Big Brother. Listen. You just simply make one excuse after another to defend Sony's ethics despite damning evidence to the contrary. That is fanboyism. Sure Nintendo wants money, but how are they screwing over the consumer? The Wii's graphics? That's a matter of taste, not a sin against man, I can live with them and obviously the majority of gamers can too. The Wii's disc format? Again I fail to see how this is a sin against the consumer. The Wii not supporting HD? Since HD has so little market penetration, why should they make their system more expensive for something most people won't have until the next Nintendo console comes out? Nintendo isn't the same company that said no blood on the SNES or launched the N64, hell its not even the same Company that launched the Game cube. They completely reformated the itself and its leading members and staff during the Gamecube's run to adress their repeated failure and as a result went from the worst selling Nintendo console ever (Gamecube) to the best selling (Wii). What is screwing over the consumer though is Sony forcing an unproven propriotary disc format on the consumer as a trojan vehicle in their gaming console, putting maliscious root kits in CDs and telling the consumer what they can or can't watch through big brother media censorship. Any argument you can make against Nintendo is purely opinionative, irrelevant or without factual basis. And no, not providing the consumer with the top of the line technology isn't unethical nor does it make them a bad company, it makes them a patient company, unlike Sony.
All you see is what's more technologically advanced and you make any justification after the fact you need to in order to defend it. Simple as that. and your reply proves it.
