Sony, and why I just don't get it. Nerdom to follow.

Dec 29, 2006 10:52

So there are out there still Sony fan boys that are pretty die hard in their defense of Sony, and I don't get it. I just don't get it. Everything Sony's done has seemed terrible. As far as I can tell, these are there most recent acomplishments.

Illegally installing spyware into root-kits, and then when caught doing it justified it with by saying "most people don't know what root-kits are, so why should they need to worry about it" (not an exact quote).

Releasing their stupid UMD movies or whatever for the PSP. Now the PSP has a pretty decent resolution, but sony hardwired in stuff (on the newer PSPs it's hardwired, may be soft on some old ones, whatever) to force the user to use arbitrarily smaller resolutions with any format they didn't purchase for sony for like $30. Can you imagine Kraft releaseing a mac and cheese product, serving size 3-4 people, or 1-2 people if you don't use Kraft brand butter.

Under producing the PS3 IN THE EXACT SAME WAY THEY DID THE PS2. I'm convinced this is an evil plan to be done intentionally to mask the fact both systems launched with total shit in terms of opening titles. You basically have a fancy system that costs way more money than anything on the market, and nothing to do with it except gloat on line about how you camped out for days to get it. Good thing theres online gloating for proud PS3 honors, god knows their isn't anything to play on the thing. As far as I know there's only one title that's both a PS3 exclusive, and expected to be amazing. Even if it's just vast incompetence, it still doesn't speak very highly of sony.

And I almost forgot the other thing, sony's "all I want for Christmas is a PSP" where they hired people who pretended to be unaffiliated with the company to try and start a viral campaign supporting buying PSPs for your loved ones at Christmas. It got exposed, they tried to play it off as a joke, then took down the site.

And basically I've never heard of them doing anything good. Like, ever. I don't see or understand any of their virtues that they supposedly have, only the masses of failures and downright unethical business practices. I have nothing against sony, I'm open to the idea of not reviling them. I just can't find any reason to. I hear both good and bad things about their competitors, but with sony it's all bad stuff.
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