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anamardoll · 03-19-2012, 03:42 PM

OK, I'm a total Sony fangirl when it comes to the readers, and there is not and never will be an XBOX in our house, but no, Sony did not handle the PS3 well at all, imho.

They yanked out backwards compatibility for PS1 titles after the initial run, which meant that I ended up buying my PS3 from *eBay* rather than from Sony, just to be sure what model I was getting. (Great business move there.)

Then they spent a tremendous amount of money and goodwill by locking down the device after the fact and going after the people who'd disseminated the tools to jailbreak it for purposes of using it as it had been initially intended all along for those buyers.

Oh, and it's super cute that the PS3 refuses to interface to generic PS2 memory cards if they're not Sony issue, or at least I remember having that experience in the past with several of my generics.

So... yeah. Sony. I love their eReaders and I want to love their gaming systems, but they're heavily invested in being hateful and annoying to their customers. *sigh* YMMV.

03-19-2012, 03:42 PM	#30
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	OK, I'm a total Sony fangirl when it comes to the readers, and there is not and never will be an XBOX in our house, but no, Sony did not handle the PS3 well at all, imho. They yanked out backwards compatibility for PS1 titles after the initial run, which meant that I ended up buying my PS3 from eBay rather than from Sony, just to be sure what model I was getting. (Great business move there.) Then they spent a tremendous amount of money and goodwill by locking down the device after the fact and going after the people who'd disseminated the tools to jailbreak it for purposes of using it as it had been initially intended all along for those buyers. Oh, and it's super cute that the PS3 refuses to interface to generic PS2 memory cards if they're not Sony issue, or at least I remember having that experience in the past with several of my generics. So... yeah. Sony. I love their eReaders and I want to love their gaming systems, but they're heavily invested in being hateful and annoying to their customers. sigh YMMV.