Other Game Bundles For the Cost of the PS3

ImaNumber writes "When Sony announced the price of the PS3 many people were left dumbfounded at how expensive it was going to be. Microsoft joked that people would get the Xbox360 and the Wii instead. Brittlefish has taken this a step further and put together a list of some other gaming 'bundles' that you could buy instead of just getting one PS3. You might be surprised at what you can get for that kind of money."

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Re:Purposefully wrong comparison

[sesshomaru]

Well, aside from the rootkit, Sony are paid in full members of the MPAA/RIAA and thus are the people who are partly responsible for every DRM debacle we've had to deal with for the past few decades. Including getting the DMCA passed into law, the broadcast flag, the DeCSS fiasco, the most DRMed-up of the two High Definition Disk formats.

The whole point of Blueray is that DVD is no longer a credibly DRMed format. DVDs are now, to the most remotely savvy of users, the video equivalent of (non-rootkitted) CDs. It's not about High Def, that's just the bait, the hook is the DRM.

Even the hated Microsoft are just starting to wade into the DRM pool, Sony have been happily dog-paddling in the deep end since their one brief shining moment in the Betamax case.

Sony are not free software idealists. The version of Linux that they allow to exist on their console will be deliberately crippled and not have access to its higher brain functions so they can continue to make money selling licenses and expensive developer kits to favored studios. What kind of free software OS deliberately blocks software from working if it isn't licensed? No kind, it's the sound of one hand clapping.

Linux with DRM, what's the point? What's Free Software about that? We'd all be better off switching to OS X if that's what we want. Heck, the Mac Mini is comparable in price. Seriously, I'll never get this. (Yes, I know that what you really mean is that "It runs Linux and presumably will play the best games too," the best games is the only meaningful part of that argument. A big "so what" that they are leveraging the most mature Free Operating system so they don't have to pay their hated competitors Microsoft and Apple for their OSs. They've taken Linux and made it less Free than Windows Vista. Interesting in the way that Sauron turning noble and beautiful elves into hideous and corrupt orcs was interesting, but horrifying to anyone who actually cares about software freedom.)

Also, any trend you don't like about gaming? Blame Sony, they've been the trend-setters. They've been just as much content gatekeepers as Nintendo was when they were in charge, they just block different things.

Seriously, Sony fandom does not make sense to me, unless its based on the supposition that they are going to win. They have no taste and they take every opportunity they can to screw us "consumers" as roughly as they can without even the courtesy of lubing us up first. I can understand "backing the winners" as the excuse for loving Sony, or maybe if you really love their first party games (I can't think of any super well loved Sony first party games, myself, but I assume there are some). In other words, pragmatism, the same reason I'll always be a Microsoft gamer (not an XBOX gamer in my particular case, a Windows gamer) because if I want to play the best computer games I have to deal with Microsoft's jackassery. For consoles, its been the same, if you are serious you buy a PS2 first and then maybe one of the other systems. (Note my hatred of Sony prevented me from doing this, even though I would've had to advise any person who wanted to play video games to do it if I were being honest.) They were close to getting a monopoly last generation, they were certainly the undisputed market leaders.

But this love of Sony, because they are so cool or something? I don't get it.