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Sony To Detail "Premium PSN" Plans At E3
ranulf writes "VG247 is reporting that Sony will reveal their plans for 'premium PSN' services next month at E3, even though they've long stated that one of the PS3's advantages over the 360 is that they offer PSN for free. In addition to the premium services, they intend to offer a free PSN game to subscribers each month (from a choice of 'two to four games'), which should make the premium PSN effectively free if you already bought a game every month. VG247's source claims 'nothing planned will impact the service’s current free aspects,' and that 'there’s nothing in the premium package which will gimp regular PSN users.'"
I still remember when they said vibration/rumble was stupid and no one would need it. Then they came out with new dualshock. They touted the wii controller as a stupid gimmick they didnt need even tho they had sixaxis, and now they are coming out with that ice cream cone wiimote. I wonder what stupid worthless idea they will start using next.
I know it's the old story of "but they promised!", but currently I see no signs that Sony is moving currently free services over to Premium services.
How quickly they forget.
Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, I must be an idiot. If you trust Sony, you're the idiot.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If half the people complaining about OtherOS removal had actually used it, Sony would be the richest corporation in the world
Irrelevant. There are plenty of other examples of Sony boning customers. Rootkits, anyone?
As it is, you probably don't even know just how limited the hardware actually was for other operating systems - you certainly couldn't play games on it. OtherOS never was aimed at end-users.
I'm highly familiar with how limited the hardware was, notably that the hypervisor prevented most GPU access because the GPU had access to main memory. Of course, all the hypervisor actually HAD to do was enforce memory protection, so it's clear that Sony took this action to prevent using it for games. However, this is a complete red herring, it's easy to see why you're too cowardly to log in. The PS3 plays Games without the 'Other OS' option; running Linux was for everything else. Sony canned it because it enabled Blu-Ray copying, to which you have a right (for backups.)
If Other OS functionality wasn't aimed at end users, it would only need text console support. Everything you said is wrong. Go away.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"