Ok Niode, let's say you were the maker of a video game console.Niode wrote:It's Sony who put this in. It wasn't there before. It's been added since 3.30, it just wasn't useable by devs. Yes they can choose not to use it, but why would they? The fact is, Sony are the enabler here, it's not that devs suddenly had a change of heart. They couldn't region lock before, now they can. Just means more bad news to pile on top of bad news for Sony customers. I'm just glad I have absolutely no need to give Sony my money anymore. Seriously, do Sony want customers or just blind retarded fanboys? You'd have to be the latter to put up with this kind of crap.EvilRyu2099 wrote:Haha even worse...Mod_Man_Extreme wrote: This is at the dev's discretion,
Besides the PS3 scene will enable multi region games anyway. It's only a matter of time.
Now let's say a huge chunk of your supporting third parties threatened to leave unless you provided them with region locking of some sort.
Would you:
A:) Ignore them and risk loosing everything.
B:) Get off your ass and give them the option, but make sure it's at least not mandatory.
I know you're biased against Sony for only God knows why, but get the heck over it already. You do nothing but bash the company at every opportunity for pointless problems that either aren't their fault or because they're protecting their intellectual property.
Oh boo-hoo Mr. "I can't use PS3 Linux", "they've disabled my USB modchips", "They're region locking games I'll most likely never import". The fact of the matter is this most of this stuff will never affect the general consumer or even the hardcore gamer such as us to a pretty decent extent. I can still buy my PS3 games at work and bring them home to play no freaking problem. Not to mention all my USB controllers flash drives and other accessories still work.
If you're gonna complain get a real reason. Don't keep harping on about some re-hashed old topic nobody truly cares about anymore as an excuse to either pirate on consoles or modify them for "backups". Are you a legit user? Yes. But 90% of the dicks that read the PS3 modding sites are douchebags who only want free games; of course Sony's gonna protect their intellectual property and that of their third parties when they start asking.
Oh, it's gonna have region lock at the dev's discretion? Well then better get to mailing and talking with the devs you like so that they see you're going to be interested in their product.
Still, as of right now this is only a rumor. A shittily written one at that, laden with typos and crummy blurry pictures of an LCD screen. For all you know that's just a photo of some photoshopped jpeg on a computer monitor.
In other words, calm down, get over yourself and stop being what in the end amounts to a fanboy.
When 360's always broke and everything from accessories to discs had problems did we have a legitimate excuse to bash Microsoft's hardware for fun? Yes.
Now that they've gotten their act mostly together and the slims seem to have finally solved everything? No.
(The software on the 360 (FPS laden as it may be) is still a fantastic lineup of stuff both in online and retail settings & was never an issue.)
Did we have an excuse to bash Sony when the PS3's were overpriced and we had the game lineup form hell for a bit? Yes.
Now that the slims are out and significantly cheaper, not to mention smaller and quieter? No.
Yes both consoles have had their breakdowns, but Microsoft's is thanks to shitty R&D. They ate that 3 billion dollars on red ring repair HARD and took a ton of shit in the public eye because of it. Sony's oldest PS3's that are slowly starting to YLOD a bit more frequently only failed just now because they were built much more soundly than the hot glue and paperclips that is the original model 360's.
The killer factor for both consoles? Lead-Free solder and the environmental movement. The fact still remains that at the time both of these consoles were in development lead solder was still acceptable in consumer products as the current ROHS restrictions had yet to be globally implemented. Nobody had worked with lead-free solder in that kind of ultra new tech or level of mass production yet. Therefore one had a miserable failure rate whereas another simply needs a servicing every 3-5 years to keep running.
Yeah it's a crappy situation either way you look at it for the original models of these consoles, but that's why both companies have taken what they've learned and released newer form factors which do away with the previous issues.
