I don't think the PS3 would NEED a price cut.
However, that being said, I'd be puzzled by anyone that'd say that they shouldn't drop the price if Sony can afford to. To be able to give customers another reason to buy a PS3 and yet refuse to do that would be just plain foolish and would keep them from getting sales that they would otherwise have.
This article fails on many levels (isn't ANYONE taking the Kinect craze, for whatever the reas...
I agree that hacking does not equal piracy, and I'm sure Geohot meant well (he did something similar to the iPhone, and the main effect of that was that people could and did use the jailbreak there to use their iPhone with the Verizon network at the time).
However, it's the few that will ruin it for everyone else. I continue to think that Sony doesn't want homebrew on any of their systems, either (and for the reason why there hasn't been homebrew games on the...
So, you want them to break the law, too?
Good lord, the way some of you are acting about this hack, you'd think you'd want to go to Geohot's house and shoot him in the head with a .44 magnum!
Yeah, you're just trolling there.
You forget what site you're on:
- Fanboys get too much power here to shut others up and seem to know when, how, and who to whine to when things don't go their way.
- They never seem to separate criticizing/praising a console with the fanboyish comments about them. They're all the same to them.
- They always seem to claim conspiracy when an article like this is universally trashed, as if it was supposed to be a given that the article be praised by e...
If I had a nickel for every single time I heard that acronym used with some childish, fanboyish comment, there would BE no recession!
By the way:
"Leave you kids to hate. unlike you PS3 guys I got games to play not talk about and not support."
Which you haven't done yet! Big effing surprise!
Well, since you had the time to comment ABOUT it...
Sigh...
Here we go!
Personally, I think the one thing people have to do before they talk about this is to...
BREATHE!!
Did we forgot about why Tucson happened ALREADY? It's rhetoric like this that made that guy that already had mental issues want to take a gun and shoot up a Safeway with a congresswoman in it (nearly killing HER along with about 9 others)!
I know this is a hot button issue with gamers, but can we please stop acting like children here? I kno...
I don't understand where any of your listed things have to do with the pirating/hacking/whatever we're calling it.
"OtherOS"
Why does every single person go to this? How many times do I have to explain this? THIS WAS NOT EVEN INCLUDED WITH THE SLIM MODELS, YET NO ONE NOTICED OR BITCHED ABOUT IT! It was more than likely to be removed from the fat models no matter what and they used the hack as an excuse to remove it. And when it WAS removed, ...
You're trying to have it both ways.
If it doesn't affect you, then why are you even saying anything about it?
If you don't have a problem with what they do, then why are you equating them with murderers?
If you don't think all hackers are bad people, then why are you saying they are in what sometimes is the very same sentence as when you are trying to distance them from the "bad people" labels?
Not ...
And therein lies the problem. You changed the title, but the substance is still saying something that you're contradicting with this comment. You say you have no problem with hacking/cracking, yet in your article, you put them all in a box and lumped them all together as bad people. You're not making any sense.
I've been accused of being one of those that you mentioned (and by the way, I don't know why you seem to always go that route with your comments, and MS fanboys aren't any better), and I don't think this'll be disastrous. It all goes with how you perceive what this could be used for. ANYONE can use ANYTHING in a immoral way, no matter how moral it is intended to be. The thing is, is the good enough to outweigh the bad? I think so in this case. Sony should take advantage of...
I think Adam Sessler says it all:
"Ah but homebrew is just a cover up for piracy everybody knows it."
Wow...that was an ignorant statement if I ever saw one!
Care to explain HOW that's true when we have awesome indie games like Amnesia: The Dark Decent on Steam that could be a PS3 game as well because of this type of thing? Hell, the people behind Super Meat Boy won't even HAVE to worry about Sony "approving it" (as ignorant as I think Team Meat's decision abo...
Ummm...
DUUUUUUHHHHHH!!!
The main problem that will put things to MBC's POV is that Sony has been trying to kill the homebrew scene on their systems for a while now. This started with the PSP, where it was used to run game emulators that could do NES and SNES games (like, play Super Mario on your PSP). Sony seems to not like the scene, and they have been doing things to close it off for a while while giving new features to make the new FW's attractive to the unsuspecting people that like the homebrew games. ...
I think restructuring the XP system to something a LOT more "traditional" (I like the fact that they you don't have a main level number, but the whole fatigue system has to go, since that's what killed many people's interest in it before it even launched) would be an awesome start. I haven't played it yet, so I can't say anything else, but the XP thing, coupled with the inability of SE to really explain in full and clear detail what it is even though they denied ...
They don't HAVE to drop the price, but it would really send a message to their competition if they DO!
Thus, though it's not necessary, it might be in their best interest to do so.
So...how many more articles like this are we going to have? I know everyone has their opinions and we're going to be as polarized as ever about this topic, but if you really don't want people to hack the PS3, then do us a favor and QUIT BRINGING IT UP! Seriously, how many more articles about this and how bad/evil/whatever it is do we need? How many more times are we going to get the opportunity to use whatever adjective we have for a guy that might've not done anything wrong (agai...