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Sony, you're dead to me.
11 years ago
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From EEVBlog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-vbzLPwSc
Really sony, taking a shit on your past there.
Really sony, taking a shit on your past there.
This is what happens when you go from a privately held company to a corporation.
They decimated the XBox with the Playstation 2 with shear sales and a wide range of game/media (except the XBox had an advantage of being turned in to an actual computer but that controller... UGH).
They however burnt their bridges when the Playstation 3 came out. Cell architecture was a "backwards" approach, following in "Sega's" footsteps with a steep learning curve (aka the Sega Saturn) for a non-native graphics format that wasn't a "standard" for most companies (the XBox 360 and Wii used GPU's from NVidia and ATI that were widely available, well known and companies didn't need to fiddle with weird graphic formats to get it to work). It was also the first console I've ever seen to date to suffer from a severe bottleneck. It only has 256 megs of RAM which many companies had to do cutbacks and limitations trying to keep under what was available (and many companies did express concern about the limitation). Even Bethesda had huge issues with TES:Skyrim crashing due to the severe RAM limit when a save file reached over 6 megs... 6 FREAKING MEGS! (I do however blame Bethesda's sloppy coding and memory leak issues somewhat but 256 megs is a drop in the bucket while RAM was/still is cheap). There was also the stint on them "removing" the Other-OS function (fans and homebrew enthusiasts were not amused) let alone how many times they "patched" the console due to "security loopholes" in the OS (aka trying to block piracy every other week).
To top off the biggest insult to injury. When your corporation relies heavily off technology, one thing you do not want to do is leave "security" at the bottom of the priority list. One only has to remember the huge 2011 fiasco (and costly mistake) that brought even the attention of the US government in to the situation to realize what Sony did wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_P.....Network_outage
Consoles and online security aren't their only "departments" in the technology industry in which they failed. One can even trace back to when they had to make a huge recall for many laptops that had one of Sony's "Battery Packs" installed. Essentially the batteries were highly prone from overheating that they would either catch on fire or worse, explode. This was around 2006 and they had to recall around 10 million of those batteries off the market, setting their fiances back severely for the huge mistake.
Going even further back, Sony got in to serious trouble in the music industry when people found out upon putting in one of Sony's BMG music discs in their system, it would "self-install" a rootkit without informing the user and that it would get access to the highest possible access to your system (Level-0, the highest administration level possible that even most administrators don't have access to). The problem is that not only would Sony have complete access to your system but due to the nature of the rootkit, it could also be exploited by hackers. While Sony did release an uninstaller, it actually did more damage then good (by installing more malware/rootkit in the system without your knowledge). They came under fire by lawsuit and the US government to the point they had to take those discs off the market (whether a "real" uninstaller was made to "actually" removes the rootkit, I don't know).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_B.....ootkit_scandal
You also can't forget "The Interview" scandal. I still don't know all the details (I haven't even watched the movie) but whether it was an inside job within their own corporation or a hacker actually managed to leak the movie, it just proves that Sony fails when it comes to "security" control. Regardless who did what regarding the leak, Sony's ethics as a corporation as questionable especially when it comes to security alone.
I swear after 2000, most companies turned sour, thinking nothing but profit over innovation and quality (why there's so much shovelware and DLC bullcrap on the software market) but Sony is well known for killing off the competition for quite some time and finding new ways to screw over the technology market but it's now catching up to them that their tactics aren't as effective anymore while garnering a lukewarm to annoyed reception regarding their "process" in this day and age. Besides, I thought slapping "labels" to make sales was Apples job (aka slap a "label" on a computer and jack the price up another $1000+).