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A Look At The PSX2 More on The Recall
cicatrix1 writes "According to this story at Daily Radar, the online stories about the Playstation 2 Memory Recall are false. Sony admitted to not being able to manufacture enough cards, but said that they all, in fact, work properly. " So, that means our recent story was true, as updated. As well, the folks at Core Magazine have got a look inside the machine.
Which journalists?
/. merely provided a link. Slashdot say "this site says this thing", and link to the site.
As I recall, the site in question said "there are rumours circling the Internet that...", which was true.
So... no bad journalism there, just people who can't read, or who can't make value judgements about fact, opinion, conjecture.
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The recall may have been bogus, but the cards still have bugs. The Daily Radar reported that Sony denies the recall, but that the DR has replicated the bug that Sony vehemently denies exists.
So yesterday's story may have been not 100% accurate, but there still is a problem.
Have you seen the *IDOITIC* system requirements for PC games nowdays? Buying 1 $300-400 PlayStation 2 beats buying a $1000-2000 computer every 6 months kiddo....
Well I have stated similar concerns but people sweep them under the rug as rantings from a wacko and I get massarced. They are rediculous and could use some trimming down.
I however disagree with the price tag. Theoretically with new PCs upgradeability is something that can be more easily achieved without too much hassle.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
There may not have been a recall but the reports of problems w/ the cards seem to be legitimate. See Ike Sato's impressions of the PS2 @ videogames.com for a first hand account of some of the problems.
Daily Radar has experienced Ridge Racer V saved game files wiping out the PS2's DVD drivers. We were able to replace the old drivers using the Utilities disc, but the memory card bug is still a significant flaw that Sony has not yet addressed.
Apparently Sony is denying the problems. What I think is they shipped the cards, found the bug, managed to quickly fix the problem. However they are now having supply problems putting out enough of the fixed cards to meet demand. The delay in sales is simply to give them time to make enough of the new cards to be marketable.
The idea that they are simply short on cards is just BS, they just don't want to admit to making a mistake. If they were producing good cards to begin with, why would they stop selling? If I was them I'd keep selling, I don't see the point in halting shipping.
Before you start criticising Slashdot, note that the Slashdot story cited its (only) source, and provided a link to it.
It's up to us to decide how well we value that source.
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Don't be so arrogant as to assume that nobody from Japan reads Slashdot.
Some of us even care about things we will never own (mainframes, big unix boxen etc)- never mind only having to wait a few months.
Some of us can't afford to buy a PC that will run the latest games, wheras a console is a much more economical option.
But wasn't it a problem with the Japanese machines? SCEA shouldn't be bothered with this, as the console won't ship over there for months yet, hence the 'we're rectifying this' spiel. As far as I can tell, the problem of corruption with savegame files (RR5) is still a problem, and I think that that is far more damaging PR than a recall. Strictly speaking, if the component parts of Sony have some degree of independence from each other, who says that the Japanese arm has to tell the US arm that they're recalling?
This sounds like marketroid-speak for 'The first release machines are crocked in Japan, but don't worry about the US/Europe release'.
If you take the leading and final statement from the article (catenated above), then it seems that this press release contradicts itself more than it does the previous story, with marketing bumpf inbetween. Sounds more like face-saving and future-protection than a denial to me.
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