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Not going to quote any of that, since it'll come out a grarbled mess, so I'll respond to the major points really quickly:
1. It's not really tokenism. In the 3DS thread, I made a post about how I had lucked into enough money to acquire a newly price dropped 3DS and Ocarina of Time, but opted not to get it because a better version would come along eventually. It's in there towards the back, maybe even on the last page itself. Furthermore, I should have clarified the bit you consider blind faith. I was only referring to Nintendo's handheld consoles, all of which did see multiple versions, each better than the last. Even then, I'm not actually praising Nintendo. If you can't read the implied dissatisfaction here, let me spell it out: Buying Nintendo a handheld, only for a better, cheaper version to come out 2 months later is really annoying. However, I consider Nintendo's bullshit less terrible than dealing with Sony's bullshit. That's all.
2. The whole lack of transparency on Sony's part is my whole point. At no point during this whole situation have they even tried to be honest, even when being threatened with several millions of dollars in fines. They don't consider the consumer smart and/or important enough to deal with in an honest manner and they are probably lying about the status of their supposedly improved network security right now. I don't see how any of what I'm saying here warrants any kind of defence for Sony. It's not like I've been praising any one company at all here. It's not even like I have a hate on for Sony. I have a PSP and a PS2 and I'm even wearing a pair of Sony headphones right now. I just think that of the three major console makers, Sony has done the most to piss off consumers in the last few years.
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