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Old 10-26-2006, 11:38 AM   #41
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Honestly, I can't say I blame them. Legal or not, it had potential to cut into a large share of their profits, since people could just buy psx games without owning a psx. Granted, Sony would still make money from Sony created games, they'd lose money from loss of ps sales. I'm not saying what they did was right, but business wise, it was the smart thing to do.
You realise that they took a loss on every PS unit sold, right?

Otherwise, your argument sounds brilliant.
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Old 10-26-2006, 11:44 AM   #42
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My personal reasons are:

Overpriced for me personally
None of the release games blow my skirt up
I know the gen 1 version of all systems will fuck up within 3 years
It will be cheaper in a year when all the better games come out
The Grand Tourismo Travesty

Personally i'll prob get a Wii first as the back catoluge interests me and the idea of the new control pad is very interesting to me, Sony with exception of MSG4 and Devil May Cry 4 haven't captured my imagination as yet, so I can wait a while for a price drop
Toss in scratch issues (They claim that the polymer they use on the discs means the proximity to the surface is not an issue, but I have scratch proof glasses which use a similar (possibly the same) polymer coating that still gets scratched), and an uncertain future for Blu-Ray, and you've got my list down pat.

I don't let my dislike of Sony stop me from buying their systems, but this will be the first one I don't buy near launch, if at all, because there is so little for it and so much against it.

Sony, however, are cunts. I mean, illegal actions to stop legal software? Suing import sites, basically saying their chinese hardware is too crappy for their British market? Etc.
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Old 10-26-2006, 11:47 AM   #43
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Out of curiousity, how was copy protection done w/ Bleemcast? Would bleemcast have made it easier to play pirated games?

Anywho, besides that, I've got nothing. I'm just going through reasons why I could see Sony going after it (besides the fact that it made Dreamcast look like the superior system, and made having a PS irrelevant.)
Though it was dependent on people updating the system, meaning you couldn't play the newest, hottest titles.

I'd imagine that Bleemcast would make it easy to pirate games, but no more so than any other emulator, and they only sued 2 or 3 emulators. They took illegal steps in doing so, too, TMK (Not that illegal actions are new to Sony, who wants to hack yoru computer if they even suspect you of file sharing).
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