Sony games division expects increased loss of $337 million

Oh me oh my! Feel the venom of el serpiente!

^Until they IP ban you.

Holy crap, while your hate for PS3 is scary, I actually agree with some of your post Gundam. I have seen a lot more hateful things said on Joystiq especially if it is an article about the WII doing well. Whoa! What I just don't get is why people feel the need to hate so hard on the WII, or the PS3, Or the 360?

I asked this question before, how does hating a system make your system of choice better. Not that I am denying your Right to hate on this system. It just seems to me Wing that, you sound intelligent and articulate why spend this much time angry at Fanboys and a company that really doesn't care.

"And samfish I attend college. There's a million different computers here with a million different IP addresses..."

Someone doesn't understand a lot of networking concepts, like NAT and subnets.

Whoa that's 3 kinds of assholes.

Zetoss...

And someone doesn't understand just how easy an IP ban can be circumvented.

Yeah, now that i'm at college i too have felt a slight sense of security knowing i'm more immune from an IP ban, unless someone were so bold as to ban everyone else who goes to the school along with me (though if i'm wrong, please, enlighten me, network diagnostics has always been a fascinating curiosity)

Now, a MAC address ban (if such a thing were possible) would really screw ya

For someone who thinks their college has millions of IP addresses and trolls Joystiq? I think not.

@Khan

An IP ban would affect the entire school, or at least everyone NATed to that particular IP address. Don't rule it out, though, because if you piss enough people off, they're not above banning your entire subnet. They could also contact the school's IT and report abuse, which would probably get the site filtered for the whole school.

A MAC ban would be impossible. Your MAC address isn't seen anymore as soon as your traffic passes through a layer-3 device (routers, for example).

And yes, these bans are ridiculously easy to overcome, but only if you aren't a complete idiot.

Now if you REALLY wanted to ban someone for sure, you'd have to have a packet shaper between them and the internet, and then you filter all connections to/from Joystiq's IP. They'd never get around that without changing service providers.

Ok who invited this Gundam kid?!? Man, where's Fernando??...Atleast Fernando made sense and had a valid point most of the time.

I hate how all these Sony articles turn into bashing Gundam......GET BACK ON TOPIC, and stop feeding the troll

"3) tmac: Biggest asshole on the planet"

Oh wow I'm honored. I feel like I just won an oscar or something. Thank you :D

But Gundam even though this is the Internet it's some imaginary place with robots pretending to be people.

I have multiple friends that I met on Joystiq that I converse with on a daily, weekly and monthly basis about all kinds of stuff.

The problem with the Internet is people like you - There is no accountability for you. You can't act in a mature way because there is no consequence for you.

I thought the point of this site was to communicate with other like minded people and exchange online tags to play games. Were it not for Joystiq i wouldn't have a good portion of my top PSN friends to play games with.

And one more thing Gundam ...

You must be pretty fascinated with me, chin-poh, t-mac, jebus, fatass & serp to continually mention us in every post you make.

I've said it before that hearing you call others names is ridiculous. I wont waste my time digging through post's but I can guarantee that you have insulted more people than those 4-5.

If you could grow up a bit we might be able to have an actual conversation.

I know it's hard for you being a homosexual minority in the South but we weren't the ones who made you feel inferior. Just accept yourself and everyone else for who they are and stop trying to paint everyone with the same broad brush you were painted with.

There are more to people than saying "asshole, racist, bigger asshole, holier than thou etc .."

no u

Like I said you obviously have issues with being a disinfranchised minority. ITS OBVIOUS.

Keep convincing yourself that your fighting the benevolant cause of the crusaders against you. Your the one on a which hunt here for anyone who disagrees with you. Acting as if your God and you know better than everyone here.

All your doing is projecting your insecurities on everyone else.

Your gay = we get it.
Your black = we get it.

Your gay & black = WE EFFING GET IT.

None of us care about the color of your skin, if you have a chemical imbalance or if you want to have a sex xhange operation.

Stop trying to make everyone else feel like shit because you grew up as an outcast. You START the battles with everyone else. You would be surprised how far you can get in life if your not always grouping everyone together with some stupid ass broad brush of idiocy.

Do you think there is one person here that would mistake you for liking the Playstation? We get it dood you hate your life, yourself and the entire world and us who prefer the PS3 is whom you percieve as your hunter. Were not hunting you. All we do is fucking respond to your comments mate.

For someone who says they don't care about the voting system or what people think about him YOU sure are awful sensitive about it. All you ever do is talk about what people said that HURT YOUR FEELINGS.

Man up.

Gundam there is nothing retalitory about this, you had the FIRST! post on this article.

It was a great year for gamers, just not for the company. Lots of great games and all that, but the PS3 is still priced like a luxury product, and the economy is eating those alive right now.

yea I'm hoping MOST of that loss is because it went into development/production for Games....i.e. GoW3, Uncharted 2, and whatever that Title was that Jaffe & that reporter was talking about last year when they said it blew them out of the water and they COULDNT talk about, but was NOT God of War 3.....

Here is a solution go out there and BUY STUFF

I am. I bought pretty much every major game to come out last winter, and I even bought my friend a PS3 for Christmas.

Not enough, I guess. That settles it - 360s and PS3s all around!

and I love your avatar

together, we are in a totally neutral mood.

-_-

well thats what happens when you put millions into games that wont be coming out for a few years......dont ya think??

Just like when Sirius gave Howard Stern 500 Million to sign on with them and then posted a $500 million dollar loss that year.......they are slowly but surely making that back...

Personally, I think the only reason one should care if it's in one or two posts is because they can't stand for Sony to get yet more bad press.

that has nothing to do with it.....as we are in a GLOBAL economy......ENTIRE STATES are having to close various branches of Government early or take entire DAYS off because they have BILLION Dollar Deficits....

my point is that it can all be put into ONE post....think as you like....other sites under the same branch of Weblog posted the 2 articles as ONE....yet here they made it 2 to generate hits.....and trust if this was about anything else that causes so much back and forth, that could have been put together, I would have said the same thing...

Really? Well Kotaku has a wrap up article of Sony's financial woes and links all of their 5 separately published articles on the issue within in a new Sony financial crisis post. Perhaps Joystiq should make a new article and wrap it all up for you in a whole new post.

These sites publish articles as fast as they can to beat the competition, that's why they are separated. Yes, I still believe the reason why anyone would complain is what I posted above.

Well it's the same reason why they don't do it for news on the same games or whatever.

Cause it's stupid to just simply update the same thread over and over again.

Vegeta that is True but this stuff was all released at the same time......and on PS3Fanboy AND Engadget(if I'm not mistaken) are all in ONE article....thats all I was saying....

"Kotaku has a wrap up article of Sony's financial woes and links all of their 5 separately published articles on the issue within in a new Sony financial crisis post."

And then the "wrap-up" makes *six* articles on the subject. :P

Kotaku excels at producing multiple articles from a single story. There was an interview conducted with Peter Molyneux at TGS '08 turned into at least four or five articles, each amounting to no more than a short quote or two from Molyneux, and 1-2 sentences of editorial. It was ridiculous. But, hey, quantity over quality is what Kotkau's about now.

Don't like Joystiq? Please take your business elsewhere...

did I say that???

hell yesterday I said something about them doing this to gain hits and my comment was deleted.......TWICE!!!

*to

JOYSTIQS IS RUN BY SONY FANBOTZ!

lol.....now we all know that there are no sony fanbots that run this site.....

all the Gamers/Writers here are non-biased.....they have to remain objective its part of there job.....

@samfish


That's not what I'm getting at. I think Sony has made a pretty damn popular console, selling like hotcakes or not. Every site I go to, hell even non-gaming sites, a top story is about Sony and/or it's PS3...weird.


@GundamWingEW


NO.

@Gundam:I have yet to see this ad...and I turned off the Ad blocker....and why would you think its FREE publicity??? you dont think that they are Paying to have the ads up here??? lol.....I mean hell I would think so....look at all the needless articles that could have been combined into ONE article like they are on Endgadet or PS3Fanboy....its like they are TRYING to get as MANY separate flame articles up to generate revenue.....

Hmm, i thought Joystiq was run by educated gamers that dedicate much time to bring us the latest news from the gaming industry?

WTF why is my nose so brown!!!??
*rub rubs!*

HALP!