[PS3] Plan on owning a PS3?

It feels a lot like I've been kicked in the teeth on the PS3 issue.

About 2 years ago I bought an HDTV (huge-ass CRT, can only do 1080i) because I was planning on playing HD games with it and, at the time, the PS3's ass-rapingly expensive price hadn't been announced.

Then Sony pulled their shenanigans with the XCP rootkit on their music CDs. Being a geek of principle, this made me seriously reconsider buying a PS3. People have waxed lyrical about different divisions of a company and such things, but as far as I was concerned, Sony was Sony and they had done wrong.

Around the same time were the rumours that PS3 games were non-transferable via some kind of serial-number-based DRM. That didn't pan out, but it was another damper on my willingness to pay money for Sony's new widget.

Finally, I find out the PS3 is going to run me $600. Well fuck that. I'll wait for a price drop. In the meantime, I'll just enjoy whatever HD offerings Nintendo has to provide.

"Revolution will not have HD output." God. Dammit.

Finally PS3 gets released and there are all these problems with it. PS2 pixel-flipping thing, HDCP handshake failing, HDCP even existing in the first place, lack of decent games (I know, I know, launch libraries are always slim pickings), no force feedback in the controller, shitty Wii ripoff tilt detection...the list goes on and on.

Initially I was going to buy a PS3 when the next main installment in the Shin Megami Tensei series came out for it (e.g. not a Persona/DDS/DemiKids/Devil Summoner/Soul Hackers/etc.).

After that, it was the combination of SMT and Silent Hill.

Now I've decided that IF I am to ever own a PS3, I shall not pay in excess of $300 for the high-end version, and it shall be purchased used so as not to fund a company that finds it okay to root people's computers. Sony can go to hell. Do not pass Go, do not collect $500 for base model, $600 for enhanced.

And I'm no MSFT/Ninty apologist either. My PS2 library is well over 50 games and I've logged thousands of hours on the little machine. Sony, however, has crossed too many lines and need to learn some humility.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

They paid out 1.5 mil or thereabouts in discount coupons and everyone pretty much forgot the whole thing ever happened. People don't get nearly pissed off enough these days. I think a few state governments are still pursuing lawsuits against them, but no Sony executives wound up in jail, and no corporate charters were revoked. It's a goddamn shame.

It would've been especially hilarious if major trade sanctions were placed on them just before the PS3 launch. Elliot Spitzer of New York would have pushed for that, methinks.

How ya doing, buddy?