I think it cost them 1 billion for the 3 year warranty which is a great remedy. If my ps3 breaks after september (1 year) i will have to pay for it to be fixed whereas ms will quickly replace my 360 for 3 years.

mephisto_11

Correction, Microsoft will only fix your 360 for RROD's after one year.

I'll make this loud and clear.

WII - HackedModded.

360 - Busted wide open.

PC - Doesn't really need mentioning.

PS3 - Nada.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/5074 - Infinity Ward Amazed by Rampant PC Piracy

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/46079 - ID and Epic to go multiplatform because of piracy.

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2006/072606_ritual_piracy_1.x - Cost of piracy to small developers

Where I come from games dont cost no "misely" 60 dollars. Hell no. They cost 110$. Not a very sane price for just a computer game, is it? That's nothing. I bought my launch PS3 for about 1100$. That's why 87% of all PS2 consoles sold over here come right out of the box modded for burned cds. I've watched more than a few friends of mine cry like little pig-tails girls when Microsoft banned them from Live for chipping their system (was fun though). This is of course far from being only my country's issue. It's damn well spread throughout Europe but mainly in Asia.

What I'm trying to say is, currently when PC developers are going multiplat (see links), eventually even those will run out of options. As I emphasized above, 360 has been blown to smithereens in hacking terms, WII was already modded the very first week it came out and same goes for the portables. PS3 on the other hand has been sealed shut for over 1.5 years now. Only 2 weeks ago they managed to exploit some hole in Bluray's Java Interactivity to run a "snake" game. That's of course light-years from a working isoloader but nevertheless, Sony's likely to clog the hole in their next firmware update like they did before. In my opinion, sooner or later developers will understand that there's absolutely 0% piracy on PS3 and the exclusives shall swarm like...free passage to the Playboy Mansion.

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[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Funny how they even think that digital distribution would make it any worse. You know what prevents piracy? Making a good game that people want to buy and not steal.Cali3350

Terribly wrong.

Most humans on the face of this planet would rather get something for free than pay for it. It's in our nature.

YOu might wanna google around for Infinity Wards and how disappointed they are from COD4 on PC due to piracy. Infact, I think I recall reading an article saying they will not make their next COD avaiable for PC just because of that.

Oh and so far the only way of preventing 100% piracy is not Digital Distribution (good example is Valve's Steam) nor serials, keys and internet authentication protocols. It's simply PS3. Only system to have ever lasted 1.5 years without a single breach.

Homebrew was booted on the PS for the first time around 2 weeks ago (a version of pong). its been hacked, they just havent found out how to make games run yet.

I saw that one.

It's more like a java exploit in bluray 2.0 interactivity than a hack.

The distance from there to an ISOloader is huge. Moreover, be sure that Sony will clog the hole on their next update.

Not surprising at all.

Much like Ipod and Macs are sold by their biggest numbers in the US.

They are US made (yet manufactured in china), that's why.

People tend to go for their own country's stuff.

Funny how they even think that digital distribution would make it any worse. You know what prevents piracy? Making a good game that people want to buy and not steal.foxhound_fox

Terribly wrong.

Most humans on the face of this planet would rather get something for free than pay for it. It's in our nature.

YOu might wanna google around for Infinity Wards and how disappointed they are from COD4 on PC due to piracy. Infact, I think I recall reading an article saying they will not make their next COD avaiable for PC just because of that.

Oh and so far the only way of preventing 100% piracy is not Digital Distribution (good example is Valve's Steam) nor serials, keys and internet authentication protocols. It's simply PS3. Only system to have ever lasted 1.5 years without a single breach.

RE5 would sell far better then DMC4, which not only is a terrible PC game, which of course Capcom doesn't want to admit. You really can't use the mouise and keyboard for the game, as the camera is fixed, which makes it feel awkward on PC. Pluse, they delayed it on PC, and most peopel that wanted to play it already did on console. Piracy is bad, and no excuses, but Capcom needs to talk about other reasons for it's failing just like RE4, which was a TERRIBLE PC port, not worth a penny, and didn't have m/k support. Come on Capcom.mismajor99

Game was meant to be played with a gamepad anyways.

It's not an FPS or RTS.

Why is it that an update takes so long on the PS3? An update on the 360 takes like 9 seconds but on the PS3 takes 5 minutes, then another 5 minutes to install. I've had to update this thing 3 times in the past couple of weeks. That's about a half hour wasted and that's lame if you ask me. The next time I have to update the PS3 I'm going to time it then do the same when MS completely revamps XBL, we'll which one takes longer. On a related subject why do I constantly have to accept agreements and sign up for stuff everytime I play online or download an update? I've never had to rifle through pages of text and sign up with my email address to play on XBL. FerdMertz

What a crybaby.

"Accepting" the agreement consists of hitting the "right arrow" button 3 times and that's it.

You have to sign absolutely NOTHING in order to install an update not to mention sign in with your email(wtf?).

Also install time takes 2 minutes tops.

Bluray>DVD

Cell>Triple XENONS rofl lmfao copter lol haha

Kojima>Carmack

Sony>Microsoft>Id studios LOL?

haemorrhagiae

LOL

that's hillarious :)

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superjim42

HAHAHAHHAHAHA

I'm definitely keeping this one! :)

That's odd.

Many other developers just went the other way around with Cell (see Sony's conference).

Since this guy has released 0 ps3 titles so far, it's not surprising at all that he's not too fond of Cell.

Again, this is a typical respond from a company that never ever before developed games on the PS3.