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| dhaabi:
--- Quote from: Cartagia on April 19, 2021, 01:25:54 pm ---Vita and PS3 no longer closing down. https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/ --- End quote --- That was a good marketing stunt. |
| oldgamerz:
this article is about consumer rights so nobody is suppose to disable products that consumers purchased legally https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection |
| bunnybear:
--- Quote from: sworddude on April 20, 2021, 12:37:28 pm ---However If this is actually true you might not want to buy that much digital content. If sony ever decides to close down them ps3 stores your digital games dlc etc might be worthless. so the fomo purchases that people make before the store closes down would ironicly not be saved since after closure when your cmos battery dies all your digital content might not work anymore even when you replace it. If we Consider that there is a time window in how long sony will keep them gates open it might not be usable for all that long. I hope the ps3 one isn't true considering how people actually made some last second purchases since the store would close down to play them later on. --- End quote --- I know many on here will have a far larger PS3 collection that I, but I downloaded all the patches for my nearly 80 physical games..... and it came to a grand total of 11.5 GB. Not bad, to be honest, and there are a lot of AAA releases in that library (but GOTY editions where possible, so in addition to DLC said editions also tend to have all patches on disc as well). In case anyone hasn’t booted up their PS3 in a while, the instant you pop in a disc, the system looks for all the updates to download and install.... even before installing the game. So it’s a pretty easy process to get all the game patches without having to fill up your disc with all the games themselves. :) --- Quote from: oldgamerz on April 20, 2021, 11:44:46 pm ---this article is about consumer rights so nobody is suppose to disable products that consumers purchased legally https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection --- End quote --- 1) nobody here, except you, thinks Sony is going to intentionally disable the console. ::) 2) The world is bigger then the US, so in any event what you’re citing with that link does apply to anyone here outside the US 3) that’s not even an article you linked..... it’s just the web portal for consumer protection information |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on April 20, 2021, 11:44:46 pm ---this article is about consumer rights so nobody is suppose to disable products that consumers purchased legally https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection --- End quote --- https://youtu.be/inlbg2I7Qnc?t=1041 17.21 minute mark Sony is allowed to do that laywers have already looked at them rules sony got them asses covered. You can't sue them even for physical games. Technicalities long after a console is dead ain't there responsbility. Even with snes and sega genesis games you technially don't own the license however the game is stuck physical so you can do with it what you want except for copying it and selling those like a ton of people did with dvd's back in the day. Music and movies hate physical since you earn way less money that way since people can sell it 2nd hand aka the reason why those 2 sectors are really digital heavy these days. They hate phsyical like the plague. I will say that oldgamerz isn't entirely incorrect Companies might have made this design choice on purpose. PS1 can still be used like back than. ps2 has some dead servers of online games. Ps3 all your digital content and probably patches already downloaded on your system will be unusable when servers are down even when it's on your system. ps4 both digital and physical games will be unusable withouth servers when the battery dies Giving less control to the consumer isn't just sony exclusive. These practices happen everywhere. phones music movies. As a company you can scrape stuff away little by little giving less control to the consumer however you want to do this when people hardly notice it. However since people complained and noticed it this time they might reverse it a bit since people discovered these intentional or accidental flaws. |
| oldgamerz:
--- Quote from: bunnybear on April 21, 2021, 05:08:35 am --- I know many on here will have a far larger PS3 collection that I, but I downloaded all the patches for my nearly 80 physical games..... and it came to a grand total of 11.5 GB. Not bad, to be honest, and there are a lot of AAA releases in that library (but GOTY editions where possible, so in addition to DLC said editions also tend to have all patches on disc as well). In case anyone hasn’t booted up their PS3 in a while, the instant you pop in a disc, the system looks for all the updates to download and install.... even before installing the game. So it’s a pretty easy process to get all the game patches without having to fill up your disc with all the games themselves. :) --- End quote --- That's why I'm so quick to stand by the PS3, because of how many games progress and patches can fit onto a single PS3, unlike most modern consoles, where one game can take the equivalent of 80 game patches and the games. one game on a PS4 or Xbox one needs to be downloaded and installed AND patched in order to play it. All the while requiring 20GB or more sometimes 100GB in call of duty's case. I am well aware of claims to say storage capacity is cheaper these days. But that don't stop the fact that this stuff takes resources to build, limited resources, that the planet has. and slave labor. hard drives and most other electronics are made from a type of crystal |
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