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Another reason not to get it is to hurt the Sony brand name. They're a bunch of... well, they and their immoral a** rape of legitimate consumers and artists alike is unforgivable. I hope there's a special place in hell for them because they're going there.

Basically, I'm complaining about the Sony rootkit fiasco. To summarize:

-Sony purposely included rootkits on some of their music CDs. Rootkits are designed to force their way into an OS, overwrite/modify key OS files, and change fundamental functionality, overall being very unsafe and unstable. They are often used to gain access to a computer against the owner's wishes, but in this case it was to disable some functionality of the CD drive. Sony should NOT be modifying somebody's machine like this

-The install EULA did not say it was to break a user's computer, only that you needed to install some software in order to play a CD, which to an uninform, average person confused would install this without fully understanding what they were doing (although to be fair I don't know the exact wording so this is definitely second-hand knowledge)

-Their initial reaction was "so?" until they realized that the average consumer would learn just how bad this bullshit was

-The rootkit also left a ******** HUGE security hole in the systems it was installed on. This was because, like most rootkits that get into an OS, it was designed to hide itself from searches, however other files could TRIVIALLY be hidden with this scheme

-Removing the rootkit once it was found sometimes destroyed the CD drivers and rendered the CD drive unusable

-This still did nothing to solve the real piracy problem and instead circumvented users' FAIR USE RIGHTS. I might consider DRM in general bad, but this CROSSES THE LINE.


Now, Sony may be made up of a bunch of different divisions and/or companies, and it might just be Sony Music being a bunch of jackasses, but the Sony Music division/company is still selling under the Sony brand name and only letting Sony execs know that this crap hurts their brand name will have the highest-ups at Sony Music even stand a chance of being disciplined. Of course, they probably won't be, and in my opinion the people who authorized for this to happen should be thrown in jail and/or fined severly.

Well, thats why I think why one shouldn't buy a PS3, anyways.

My God... You're serious?? $600 dollars??? Nobody has that much, especially a young gamer (take my brother who is twelve for example). People working minimum wage would have to work 75 hours to earn that... if they didn't have any other expenses! gonk

My Lord I just have to wonder what the Revolution will cost when it comes out... I'm sure it cannot be any worse. How utterly ridiculous!!

Dude, a 60GB iPod only costs $400. I bet the system is huge and unwieldy like that dumb Xbox too.

Apple should make a videogame system and kick both Sony and Microsoft's a**. mad mad

Same here. At least they are looking out for their consumers. If it is half the price like that, it will be a much greater market for them. 3nodding

Besides, it has been proven time and time again that it doesn't really matter what you sell the system for, it's the games that make the company money. With new games being $50-$60 now, a person only has to buy three or four games to equal the amount the system cost them. And they are likely to buy a lot more games than a couple, and they will be much more willing to part with their money for an awesome looking game.

xd Same here, sis.

Yes, I'm not getting a crappy PS3 or Xbox 360, and I have SO many reasons not to get:
Why not to get a PS3:
Really expensive (Confirmed)
Crappy controller, as Sony always has had, if you ask me (Confirmed)
Rip-off (Confirmed)
Big, clunky machine (Confirmed)
Why not to get an Xbox 360:
Really expensive (Confirmed)
Likes to over-heat (Confirmed)
Has issues (Confirmed)
You have to get add-ons (Confirmed) (Sega's probably laughing their heads off about the whole "add-on" thing, God do they know that that's a HUGE mistake xd )
Big, clunky machine (Confirmed)

Okay, I could probably find more to pick on about them.
What's GOOD about these 2:
PS3:
Sonic Next-gen and other good games (Confirmed)
Xbox 360:
Awesome controller, because it's a rip-off of Dreamcast's, and that controller was REALLY good. (Confirmed)
Sonic Next-gen (Confirmed)

And last but not least:

WHY TO GET A REVOLUTION/WII:
Good games (Confirmed)
Awesome controller, if you don't like it, there IS an alternate controller that you can get that's like a normal controller (Confirmed)
Cheap (Confirmed)
Small (Confirmed)
Has old games, lots of them! (Confirmed)
It's just better in almost every way (Confirmed)

Yeeeeep. You can tell what I"m getting, huh?

I do have one burning question though.

Y'know, after looking at the press conference for Nintendo, I noticed they didn't mention anything about the SSB game that's supposed to be the launch title for the Wii. You think with the huge success that SSBM got, they'd put it up there with LoZ: Twilight Princess and everything, right?

rofl rofl

I totally laughed my a** off on that one. 3nodding

Kwanzaa... hahaha.