(rant) man I'm kinda pissed off at sony

[backbreaker]

I have a ps3.. actually the same one I bought the day it was released. First gen. I keep the the firmware updated, etc, don't over play it. I've played probably, close to 40 different games on the system since I bought it.

anyway, last week I started playing heavy rain. great freaking game, love it. Anyway, so I'm playing the game, and I get to the scene where Kramer is having his ***** party or what not, I get in the fight with the guards, and the game locks up. **** happens from time to time, after all it's a computer basically. reboot, same thing. I did this **** no less than 10 times the other day, and it locks up at the same time.

so i get on line and it turns out that I'm not the only one. the game locks up and freezes and ****.

but, that's not even why i'm really pissed off.

why I'm pissed off, is I read the update from the guys that released the game, and to make it a long story short, they were saying that it could possibly be a firmware system and that some of the games have trouble with the "older model PlayStations", and then you read forums, and everyone is like "oh my friend has an older model PlayStation that's probably the problem" or "see yeah you probably have an older model system, i bet that's the issue"


so hold the fvck up.... when i was a kid, you know.. you got a sega. then you played the **** out of it, then play station 1 came out. you played the **** out of that, until playstation 2 came out.


now, am I honestly expected to buy 2 of the same fvcking video gaming systems? Why talk down to people who reserved your now POS what 400 dollar system with no extras lol for a 40GB hard drive video game system, and treat them like the scum of the earth because they were some of your first clients. that pisses me off.

And i had the same issue with NCAA 2012 as well. But I know it's my system on that b erucaase i took it over a friends house and it played flawlessly, but he has one that is like 1 year old.

this sucks, becuase I really like heavy rain and I really like some of the games coming out this year, but fvck me in the ass if you are going to con me out of paying for 2 of the system systems. but then again, they know i probably am going to do it anyway, beucase they have correctly pointed out that i want to play the games more than I want to save 250 bucks for new system. even if i do go buy a new system i have lost about what, a good 2 and a half hours of game play on this game and i don't know if i want to do it all again.

It still isnt' right though.

 

[perseverance]

Sony aren't the best company in the world, neither are Microsoft. My friend had his Xbox live account banned because of an error and Microsoft only sorted out this error after my friend had gone out and paid £250 for a new Xbox console. So he was stuck with two Xbox's and two Xbox live accounts.

Sony have probably done this to the older PS3's in order to get more money out of the consumer, they want you to go and spend a few hundred on a new console, you'd have thought Sony would have been a bit nicer to their fanbase after the whole "PS3 gets hacked" incident of last year, but apparently not.

I'm probably going to switch over to Xbox when the new generation of consoles comes out (whenever that happens), purely because the Xbox looks and feels like a gaming system, the PS3 slim looks and feels like a Blu-Ray player.

What are you going to do? Get a new PS3 slim?

 

[ArcBound]

Newer xbox 360's also had processors that gave off less heat, greatly reducing the chance of RROD. They included Wi-Fi in the slim Xbox which the old xbox didn't have (and people had to buy for $100), included a much larger hard drive and 2 free games for a cheaper price then launch.

Nintendo released a Nintendo DS that was fat bulky and ate battery (not as fast as the PSP though). Then a little later the DS lite was released which was lighter, smaller, better screen, better battery life and so on...

You bought it at launch, and the new business model is to release a sh!tty product at launch and the better ones later on in the life cycle to get a lot of people buying again. Kinda like how the Iphone 4 will come out and the iPhone 4s will come out a year later with only one extra feature. You give the features slowly rather than all at once...