Ok, I thought I was done but I just cant beleive how ignorant some people are. It makes me angry. Ok lets see that list....
- video store
- game store
- playstation one classics in game store
- voice chat
- in-game status bar
- blu-ray updates and enhancements
- USB and bluetooth device support
Ok, lets say that microsoft in an automatic update gave you those features and took away your ability to run a word processor or anything but games... would you like that...
and a "crippling bug that would mean the eventual demise... yadda yadda yadda..." BULL... what it meant was a very few people would get to use their machine the way they wanted to instead of the way sony wanted them too.
Let me think of that list again and put it in perspective... Those features are tiny in comparison to using your ps3 as a computer. I guess its the mentality of the masses. Lets say you bought a Lamborghini. Then lambo comes to your house, gives you softer shocks a radio cup holders and a cd holder on your visor. Oh yeah and they limited your engine to 90mph. WELL!! look at all those useful features they gave you to make up for some stupid dangerous feature that most people never use anyway. Wow, now its a $200,000 chevy cobalt. For some idiots out there that would be ok. Why did you pay extra money for a ps3 over an xbox???? Just because it was cool or something??? There are a very people who know how to take advantage of the lambos power handling and capabilities. They can take it to their local track etc... Then there are those who bought it to be cool. It sits in their garage and does nothing. I guess if you got the money to blow.
Just because your ignorant of your devices capabilities really makes you look silly (just being nice) to those of us who are not. Like I said, if you bought your ps3 to be able to buy ps1 games from sony when you could buy them much cheaper off ebay then thats your hang up. Some of us bought it to harness the power of the cell processor --- the most powerful processor at the time of its release in certain applications. And that's how Sony sold it. Now they are crippling it. Did you know that you can program for a 200 or so gigaflop multi processor on your ps3? (or that you could). Did you even care. No you just wanted a big expensive game boy. Thats what most people want unfortunatly. It let you learn how to program for the cell so that if you wanted to get into game development later it would be easier to program for the ps3. You may be getting crappier games in the future because of this move... care now???
To answer your question.... Lets say I bought a am/fm radio radio with shortwave. If the government decides that getting news from around the world is dangerous (this is a reality in china they block google now) the company can say we are removing the ability of this radio to get shortwave. Now in order to have the functionality of something I ALREADY BOUGHT, i am going to have to go out and buy a new radio that has the features I ALREADY HAD AND PAID FOR AND MAY BE THE REASON I BOUGHT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. So NO - removing features is not acceptable. If that's the case... they should let me return that radio and give me my money back not to mention all the trouble I went through.
Now I am going to have to go out and buy a new computer for the kids to do their homework on because NOT playing games or watching a movie is not acceptable to them and buying a new computer is not acceptable to me. Otherwise I would have bought an xbox 360 and a computer in the first place. I would have saved money and the hassle of having to back up all their homework files, pictures etc etc.... before putting on this new stupid update so we can rent movies again. Now I am out the extra money I paid over an xbox. Well now that I think about it, perhaps I'll just go to the video store from now on instead of giving Sony my money. And maybe from now on I'm just going to buy games for the new computer I'm going to have to get the kids. For me, taking the ability of the ps3 to be a computer is like taking my cars ability to drive away. (you didn't need that feature did you??? ya but you can still listen to the radio and honk at people who get too close to you.).
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Ok, I thought I was done but I just cant beleive how ignorant some people are. It makes me angry. Ok lets see that list....
- video store
- game store
- playstation one classics in game store
- voice chat
- in-game status bar
- blu-ray updates and enhancements
- USB and bluetooth device support
Ok, lets say that microsoft in an automatic update gave you those features and took away your ability to run a word processor or anything but games... would you like that...
and a "crippling bug that would mean the eventual demise... yadda yadda yadda..." BULL... what it meant was a very few people would get to use their machine the way they wanted to instead of the way sony wanted them too.
Let me think of that list again and put it in perspective... Those features are tiny in comparison to using your ps3 as a computer. I guess its the mentality of the masses. Lets say you bought a Lamborghini. Then lambo comes to your house, gives you softer shocks a radio cup holders and a cd holder on your visor. Oh yeah and they limited your engine to 90mph. WELL!! look at all those useful features they gave you to make up for some stupid dangerous feature that most people never use anyway. Wow, now its a $200,000 chevy cobalt. For some idiots out there that would be ok. Why did you pay extra money for a ps3 over an xbox???? Just because it was cool or something??? There are a very people who know how to take advantage of the lambos power handling and capabilities. They can take it to their local track etc... Then there are those who bought it to be cool. It sits in their garage and does nothing. I guess if you got the money to blow.
Just because your ignorant of your devices capabilities really makes you look silly (just being nice) to those of us who are not. Like I said, if you bought your ps3 to be able to buy ps1 games from sony when you could buy them much cheaper off ebay then thats your hang up. Some of us bought it to harness the power of the cell processor --- the most powerful processor at the time of its release in certain applications. And that's how Sony sold it. Now they are crippling it. Did you know that you can program for a 200 or so gigaflop multi processor on your ps3? (or that you could). Did you even care. No you just wanted a big expensive game boy. Thats what most people want unfortunatly. It let you learn how to program for the cell so that if you wanted to get into game development later it would be easier to program for the ps3. You may be getting crappier games in the future because of this move... care now???
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To answer your question.... Lets say I bought a am/fm radio radio with shortwave. If the government decides that getting news from around the world is dangerous (this is a reality in china they block google now) the company can say we are removing the ability of this radio to get shortwave. Now in order to have the functionality of something I ALREADY BOUGHT, i am going to have to go out and buy a new radio that has the features I ALREADY HAD AND PAID FOR AND MAY BE THE REASON I BOUGHT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. So NO - removing features is not acceptable. If that's the case... they should let me return that radio and give me my money back not to mention all the trouble I went through.
Now I am going to have to go out and buy a new computer for the kids to do their homework on because NOT playing games or watching a movie is not acceptable to them and buying a new computer is not acceptable to me. Otherwise I would have bought an xbox 360 and a computer in the first place. I would have saved money and the hassle of having to back up all their homework files, pictures etc etc.... before putting on this new stupid update so we can rent movies again. Now I am out the extra money I paid over an xbox. Well now that I think about it, perhaps I'll just go to the video store from now on instead of giving Sony my money. And maybe from now on I'm just going to buy games for the new computer I'm going to have to get the kids. For me, taking the ability of the ps3 to be a computer is like taking my cars ability to drive away. (you didn't need that feature did you??? ya but you can still listen to the radio and honk at people who get too close to you.).