Your analogy is quite perfect and I completely agree. Sony vastly underestimated their opponent and it took a few hits for them to realize they were no longer king of the ring, and would need to invest some effort to get things going.
What I look forward to is the next generation of consoles. Both Sony and Microsoft share now roughly a 50% market share of the gaming market (obviously ignoring the Wii, since I believe its sales are generally to the casual or even non-gamer, or sim...
The ENTIRE FOUNDATION of this story is based on a *single* comment, as quoted from the article:
One user report stated on the official PlayStation forums: "Are you kidding me! First (3.21) it freezes, and now with this one (3.30) it wont even read or recognize the disk, that means that I wont be able to play online or offline."
One user? For christ's sake, he could have either been a troll or his PS3 might have already been on the fritz (from what it sounds...
Both Google Chrome and Kaspersky starting firing up warnings and alerts visiting the site. It perchance may not be the site itself but ads it serves being injected with malware (via Flash, a popular tactic), but it's still bad news - beware.
Kaspersky basically did confirm the site was trying to load malware.
Adding video capture would dramatically increase the number of PS3 related videos on the likes of YouTube, which I believe would be Sony's goal with this. OS level video recording would be huge - the only issue to get around is the HD and CPU requirements of recording and gently compressing video on the fly. Definitely would be fun to have.