Just imagine how it must feel for the PS3 launch buyer.
First, they shelled out $500 to $600 for an amusement machine… that had no games. And what purpose is there to buy the PS3 at launch? Resistance? Hah. Heavely Sword? LOL. Was it so the Sony fan could experience the glory that is Lair?
Within a few years, the PS3 early adopter had to painfully watch the price absolutely collapse by 50%. For each year they would have waited, they could have saved $100. If they waited only a few years, they could have gotten the Slim model.
But there was one good moment for the PS3 Early Adopter where it came that the PS2 playback feature was removed in future PS3 models putting a premium on the launch units. But what does that matter when these early PS3 units are constantly breaking down?
Now comes the Epic Fail:
The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009.
Oh no! Someone might run unauthorized code on an obsolete model that has been out of retail for quite a while. The horrors!
Why does something like removing Linux from PS3 bother people? After all, what does this have to do with gaming? Gamers tend to be pack rats and see their games and consoles as things eternal. This is why game consoles breaking down easily is a big problem to them. And the idea that features are being removed is ridiculous.
In a way, this is stabbing the game collector in that a hardware product, already in its grave, still is being manipulated by the company years after. Imagine if Sony made it so PS2 backwards compatibility was disabled forcing people to buy the PS2 games off of PSN. Or imagine if Sony decided to ‘patch’ the PS3 to remove other features once the PS4 rolls around so you cannot use your PS3.
It used to be believed that once a hardware product was in your hands, that is what it was. You do not expect the features of the hardware product to be removed or to change. But now, this graveyard hardware is beginning to be ‘patched’ for the worse.
Why on Earth would anyone want to collect Sony consoles now?
I would feel sorry for the PS3 early adopters paying over half a grand for a video game console if they didn’t have earlier warning they were being played…
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