AbleJames

Best Sega property? Initial D: Arcade Stage. And I just happen to have a nice MEGA SUPER POST about it Stage 4 on MUH BLOG. I'm waiting for the day they announce this for any system. Heck, I bought Street Stage and I don't even own a PSP.

Sonic's last decent game was Adventure (1) on DC. Since then there's no point in even hoping.

In case you're still looking for a reply here, RAMX:

You're making the pragmatic argument, but did you not see that I already addressed that? It doesn't work. Sony just ends up punishing users without really preventing anything. Take a look at the title to this story, and notice that the community is easily keeping up with Sony.

But instead of using physical theft analogies (c'mon, that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish right there, but do you really think that argument carries weight anymore when applied to clearly different digital content?) and whimpering that Sony and the developers theoretically will produce less (the same argument people use for the very unconstitutional idea of limitless copyright), consider this: Sony's UMD format.

The UMD films play at full resolution. Files on a memory stick do not. Why? Because Sony decided to 'add value' in the same doublespeak you talk about crippling hardware as 'adding value.'

They decided to artifically and arbitrarily limit the uses of their technology thinking that people, when presented with the pragmatic decision, will reason with utterly myopic logic that A is more valuable than B, and therefore we should mindlessly buy A. They fail to consider that we might actually understand that A is more valuable than B because Company C thinks you're an idiot who doesn't realize that you're paying for powerful hardware that you can't use except when expressly granted permission in every instance. Again, it's like buying a souped up roadster and then being told that, well, you've paid for it completely, it's all yours, but if you want to go above 30 MPH you'll have to lease a limit-releaser into the infinite future, and only drive on specially approved tracks.

Maybe some people are ok with being spat in the face, and some people will gladly ask to be spat in the face rather than have their kneecaps broken, but what surprises me about you Sony apologists is how many of you will gladly ask to be spat on in the face, and then attempt to justify the actions of the spitter as doing it for your own good so Sony won't have to break your kneecaps.

Well, I don't think any real opinions are split. Even those that pragmatically dislike devhookers (heh) for causing Sony to release new security updates can't really make an argument that's any different from members of a grade-school class getting mad at the one trouble maker for causing the teacher to punish them all. I.e., it's really not anger at the cause, which is users modifying the technology how they want, but the arbitrary effects of an inviolate authority, or Sony.

I mean, really, is anyone who is not completely deluded going to make an argument that Sony should by rights be able to maintain after-sale control on hard, real, physical devices they've SOLD to consumers?

Again, how is this different from a theoretical car manufacturer attempting to force you to come in for 'repairs' every few months, so that it can install speed-limiters to help the police catch you, mileage-decreasers to help friends in the oil industry, or any other consumer-injurous technology that serves only in theory to increase the business of the producer at the expense of the consumer? In the end, since those who dislike the regulations always seem to find a way to remove the speed limiter, or increase their mileage regardless of artificial limits, it simply serves to punish citizens who are already doing what is desired of them, and serves no point to the citizens who desire otherwise.

So let's hear it, once and for all, all of you Sony-apologists. Let's hear why you readily agree to let them distrust you, and take it as their right while you, who bought their product, subsidizing their existence, have no rights to use that shiny black dust-collector to display "hello world" in ASCII text.

"If the PS3 turns out to be like the PSP (a machine some use mainly for homebrew programs), Sony is going to have a hard time making the PS3 a profitable venture; they aren't going to make a penny if someone is playing a pirated copy of an NES game."

Thanks for the editorial, but I don't think your premise necessarily leads to that conclusion.

10 fps? I think poster is a little optimistic. Judging by the testing done so far they're getting about .1 - 3 fps.

Is it Joystiq's policy now to call out readers who disagree with them in full-on front page news stories?

In any case, the funny thing is, no actual new organization would ever do something like this story. Joystiq, no matter what they've done in the past, has proven "GSI" correct by this petty and timewasting accusation.

I couldn't care less what this guy thinks, am perfectly capable of deciding how much value to give Joystiq reporting (normally quite a bit), and am insulted that you waste my time to tell me I can't make up my own mind.

Like Engadget, I can't wait for the new Zelta game!

I second the voices. Sam is pretty close to spot-on, but Max just isn't it. Really, the voice actor is close, but he's seems to go from manic to script-read-through and doesn't seem to know what the balance or timing should be.

I just want the original Max! The one from the first game!!

"Sir, the DS is outselling the PSP in every territory. We have to do something quick!"

"Well, what do you recommend, peon?"

"Sir! I think we should court 3rd party publishers to make better games, and then drop the price and bundle a great UMD movie and game with a system, sir!"

"...very well. From henceforth, I decree the PSP price be changed from $199 to $250. Further, let us bundle ATV Offroad Fury and Lords of Dogtown with the system. Make it so."

"... Sir... I...I quit. I'm going to work for Nintendo."

"VERY WELL. But I hope you know that, even though they will pay you more and you will be happier and people will actually buy your games and you won't be beholden to idiotic hubris-overflowing executives, you will be FORBIDDEN from playing the new PS3 Offroad Fu-"

[door slams]

GOTTA HAVE THOSE DEETS. DEETS MAN, NOTHING COULD BE BETTER THAN DEETS.

Seriously, writers--stop trolling. It isn't a word.