Microsoft buyout of ailing Sony possible

[Torgod13]

This is a bit off topic, but I can tell you first hand that they are an arrogant bunch of folks that only want to hear the positive spin on their products. I have had to replace my PS1 over 6 times and My PS2 4 times.. I am one of the lucky ones that just swapped them out and sent the defective ones back.. (no cost to me ). If this came out of my pocket I would never buy another Sony product ever. But they always have the cool $#@!  Why do you think they out sell all the other systems?!?!? BECAUSE WE ALL NEEDED TO REPLACE OUR CHEAPLY MADE SONY PRODUCTS OVER AND OVER!! How many Genesis, T16, Gameboy, SNES, Saturn, Dreamcast, N64, Game Cube, Jaguar, 2600, 5200 (controller the exception ) NES... did we have to replace? Sega fell because of their arrogance and the Sony hype machine, Sony will follow history because they have never bothered to look to the past for answers. Our department told the uppers that the UMD’s would fail miserably.. and why… No one would listen.. Then there was the Dual Shock lawsuit.. Sony’s stance… WE WILL FIGHT THEM AND WIN!! Microsoft, paid them their settlement and continued on with business as usual. Now Sony must remove and re design all the Dual Shock controllers because their arrogance got the best of them AGAIN!!! Not to mention paying a nifty sum.. lol I do not wish for Sony to flounder and go away. They single handedly revitalized the Video Game market with the PS1, But a little egg on face and humility would due the company well. Plus we need three competitors in the market. It has been good for business and it always will be good for them and us as well. Sony needs to remember WE made them who thay are. (sigh... done with rant....)

[inlovewithi]

Perfectly put.

[inlovewithi]

well we should all look at it as this... it would really cost us $1200 because we would have to buy 2 seeing as that in the last 2 sony consoles something has gone wrong...i.e. playstation 1 over heating, ps2 and it's beautiful disk read errors, so expect a combination of the 2 as we advance on to greater sony hardware... but wait there’s more !! 2 years after launch you can buy the third and "smaller" version they release of the same system, because it's "cool" and it doesn't have the obvious problems the original version of the system did ( that sony over looked because they don't care about you as a consumer ) but then again... we don't care do we... because it's "sony".. rant end.

Perfectly put. It’s nice to know that there are people with common sense, who can see things clearly, for what they are.

[Psychondrius]

The thing I don't get... wasn't blueray Sony's creation? Does blueray really cost so much that they have to slap that $500 price tag on the PS3? Sony should loosen up a bit and get to grips with their consumers... they simply aren't giving in. More than likely, Sony will one day cave in on itself, like it should have many years ago when it created a blunder like the betamax. I think their current game systems, cd/mp3 players, dvd players and other simple UNDER $300 products are the only things keeping sony afloat. I hope that they puncture a hole in their life raft and drown if they don't pop their smarter pills soon.

- Psychondrius

[Ziro]

I have yet to experience any problems with my PS2 and I bought it about 6-8 months after it was released... my friend made a guide to fix that disk reading error so if you need it I can link you to it.

The guide is the stupidest thing anyone can followe do unless they're really good with things like this and would rather do it, void a warranty, and not have to pay to ship your PS2 to Sony.

Here's my guide:
Send your PS2 back to Sony.
They'll fix it for free. gamefaqs.com actually might have a guide for doing this (calling sony and telling them to fix it)


I tried doing the thing that fixes DRE's, and it worked somewhat at first. In the end, I had to send my console to Sony anyways. I opened up my PS2 for no reason.

[LC_killer]

Most news is taken from some other news site somewhere. Think about it that way, PSPU didn't make the news themselves either and simply "stole it" from another site as you would say it.

except here thwy say where it came from . like this story's source was gamespot. go look at the same story at pspupdates and it says it was posed by a user. this site does not claim to be the source of every story as others do. pspdupdates does not credit where they *stole* the artice from. dcemu verry blatently say where there story came from if it is from anotothe site.

[MaxSMoke]

Why Blu-Ray? What's the big deal about the PS3 needing this stupid Blue Ray drive? Does anybody really care about Blue Ray? The Xbox 360 didn't come with the Hi-Def DVD drive Microsoft promised, and guess what, NOBODY CARED! It still sold like hot-cakes!

#1. DVD's produce very good video as they are.
#2. Blu-Ray apparently have Super-Draconian copy protection, who wants that?
#3. Name 1 game that needed even just 2 DVD's to Run? 4GB's is alot of space for a game, especially a console game with less system resources then a PC.
#4. I can't think of anybody I know that remotely owns a Hi-Def TV, or will be buying one this year or the next.

There's just no need for Blu-Ray. If they can knock off $300 by skipping that stupid drive, then I'm personally *ALL* for ditching it! Dump the drive, use DVD's, but keep the useful stuff like built-in Wireless networking. Now that's a feature I need! My router is on the other side of the house!

Anybody else think Sony should ditch the Blu-Ray and keep the Wifi?

[shadowprophet]

Why Blu-Ray? What's the big deal about the PS3 needing this stupid Blue Ray drive? Does anybody really care about Blue Ray? The Xbox 360 didn't come with the Hi-Def DVD drive Microsoft promised, and guess what, NOBODY CARED! It still sold like hot-cakes!

#1. DVD's produce very good video as they are.
#2. Blu-Ray apparently have Super-Draconian copy protection, who wants that?
#3. Name 1 game that needed even just 2 DVD's to Run? 4GB's is alot of space for a game, especially a console game with less system resources then a PC.
#4. I can't think of anybody I know that remotely owns a Hi-Def TV, or will be buying one this year or the next.

There's just no need for Blu-Ray. If they can knock off $300 by skipping that stupid drive, then I'm personally *ALL* for ditching it! Dump the drive, use DVD's, but keep the useful stuff like built-in Wireless networking. Now that's a feature I need! My router is on the other side of the house!

Anybody else think Sony should ditch the Blu-Ray and keep the Wifi?

Personaly I think the market has gone crazy.
There starting to sell people stuff we dont want or need.

And people are starteing to wake up to this fact.
It wasnt so long ago in aincent history, when a certain company named atari started pushing stuff out on the market nobody wanted or needed, And the end result was the market collapsed.
Even after prices started to drop once again, people just wernt interested anymore.

I forsee this as a posibility. However A crash like what happened back in the 80s will never happen again.

But its going to take somthing monumental to open the the eyes of supply side of the video game market.

And what is there, (the markets) stance on this?

(you have proven to us your willing to pay that much so the price goes up)

But prices will only continue to up, and up, and up further still, As long as people pay what they ask, the prices will continue to rise.

And not just on consoles.
Even the price of games has went up.

But thats okay I predict with 75 dollar games and 600 dollar consoles. It wont take long for the market to realize (hey theres a lot less people playing consoles and a lot more people playing homebrew)

Its just not reasonible to charge 600 dollars for somthing thats got a built in life span

You can fool some of the people all of the time,and all of the people some of the time, But you cant convince people that upwords of a grand is a reasonible price for a console that is destined to have a four to six year lifespan tops, not to mention in that four to six years you will most likely have to buy another to replace your broken ones, cause come on this is sony, you know there gonna be designed to break.

[Flipao]

I'm siding up with Nintendo on this one... they know their gaming.

As for the source of this site's news, it's google news, just type PSP in and you'll get all the stuff that's posted here.

[r2works]

I'm siding up with Nintendo on this one... they know their gaming.

As for the source of this site's news, it's google news, just type PSP in and you'll get all the stuff that's posted here.

I agree. At $400-$600 dollars a system, its easy to see how Nintendo continues to out sell everyone else (except PS1). All they have to do is let everyone else make stupid decisions like selling a console for $400-$600, then release their system.