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Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission
Stoobalou writes "Sony's latest firmware update comes with a revised End User License Agreement which allows the company to change any part of the console's operating system without notification or permission. You might think you own the console you paid for, but Sony has a very different idea."
A GOOD thing that DOESN'T work.
Thankfully, precious few games do I buy for the PS3. Most of my buying goes to the Xbox360.
PS3 utterly lacking a "killer app" game of any sort makes it easy to do. Most of the time, it's just an overly expensive (given that I bought an early edition) DVD/Blu-ray player. I highly suspect that this will continue in the future.
Plus, if I have to take the update from disc, so be it. Should I find the game so important, I'll "accept" it at that point. They still can't push random updates "over the network" if it's unplugged from ethernet and doesn't have an active wireless connection.
After looking at what has been gained and what has been lost, at best it looks like PS3 owners have been given 97 cents in pennies, while they have had 400 dollars in 100$ bills taken from them.
Maybe to you quantity is more important than quality, but to me, everything Sony has done to the PS3 has made it even LESS inviting to me. The only reason I wanted it was FOR the parts they removed!
It doesn't matter though. I'm welcome to keep my money in my pocket and mock (mercilessly) Sony AND the Sony fanbois who think that their product is worth its weight in piss. It isn't.
It's hard to believe anyone old enough to have his own home would write a post like yours.
Or did you mean when you move out of your parent's house?