This may seem insignificant to some but I believe the fact that Playstation 3s are so expensive and AREN'T backwards-compatible is a beautifully ugly example of corporate greed.
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- Posted by Red Pill 2 years ago. There are 8 posts. The latest reply is from Change.Of.Heart.
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Yeah, i thought that was really bodgy.
I thought imperfections like this wouldn't be existent in future consoles and games, but i keep seeing more and more of them.One that really peeves me is the fact that the Xbox 360 has 4-player capability's but most if not all of the games for it don't support 4 players without system link!
For example, Halo 3 and Halo ODST is clearly capable of 4 players although you have to system link for campaign and firefight modes (regular multiplayer excluded). And Left 4 Dead, can only have 2 players per console even though the game was DESIGNED for four players!i heard somewhere that if you payed more for an upgraded version of the ps3 you'd be able to play ps1 games on it but not ps2 games.
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Okay, i'd hate to burst the bubble here, but its not a case of corporate greed, as Sony makes a considerable loss per product with their current pricing, and the PS3 would be even MORE expensive if they wanted to break even.
We have to be careful what companies we poke a finger at, because Sony would be one that i couldn't point the finger at, seeing the work they've put into the PS3. Its interesting to note that the price of cross-compatibility with the older playstation models would just make the PS3 an even bigger loss for them. -
bottom line remains - its all about the dollar... And companies will push whatever melody to sound legitimate and innocent.
( ofc PS3 will make a loss if they will make the old games work - you need to buy new games! )BTW - i bought once a mp3 player form them ( it was the first 20gig mp3 player ) it broke 2 times during the one year guarantee, i was not compensated for the 3+ months that they took to repair it and the blasted thing broke once more soon after it came from repairs.
Sony glows red for me since then.
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Hmm, well i've always had great success with Sony, so I've never seen them in a bad light (except for the whole greedy non-caring corporation evil thing). My PlayStation 1 survives to this day in perfect condition, and my PS2 i play still very often and it hasn't ever had an issue.
Its true that the companies are pushing to make as much profit as possible, but in terms of companies that offer products that last, I'd have Sony up there. I mean, you may have picked a bad egg, just like my dad did when he bought his VW Golf years ago: It was a bad build and eventually it was traced back to an employee that was deliberately screwing with the cars in the factory.
The thing is, is that I'd rather point the finger at the Xbox 360, where the failure rate of the consoles has been 60%. SIXY PERCENTTTTT! How on earth is this allowed? And half the people don't even get their faulty equipment fixed, not to mention the excessive amount of waste that remains from all these xboxes that just get thrown out after-wards. Microsoft doesn't care, they just sell more and more.
The PS3 failure rate is at about 15%, and the Wii takes the cake at about 2%, with half of that being due to tampering by users for custom firmware and what not.
Its just that pointing the finger at something that isn't nearly as bad as another thing without having a holistic picture is something that a religious body would do, and we aren't like that.
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yes i agree
and yes i agree that it is an 'religious' approach.
*picks up his torch and goes to the mall*
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I'd agree that the Xbox fails this round... Seems they did a rush job and didnt test the components working together over long durations... Apparently they have fan/heat swapping problems and get too hot.
With PS3's, apparently as the CPU architecture was next generation they had to include additional workarounds to be backwards compatible.
The new slims dont have any backwards compatibility i believe... making their latest and best cheaper and smaller... I play on PC's anyway so i'm not too fussed.
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haha, atleast they dont explode into a flaming ball like some of the dell laptops i have heard about :).
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