Games: Sony looks buggered

[Cataferal]

http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q1-2005/032705a.html

This is going to take a lot of money for the company to sort out. In the meantime, a lot of games will cease production. This may lead to a change in price for Sony games, although which way it'll go remains to be seen.

[Xellos]

Wow.

Oh, as long as we're talking about Sony and it's problems... the US PSPs hav fixed the square problem, and the disc problem. Not confirmed on the problem wiht turning on, however, a HGUE amount of PSPs have dead pixels. Go look at the PSPHardware board on GFAQs, there's topics all over the place. The amount of PSPs that have dead pixels is really unacceptable.

[Xhell]

gaah. It seems that loads of problems has occurred recently, associated with games and these upcoming PSPs (for us in the UK anyways).
I'm glad to hear that they seem to have rectified the "square button" issue from which they were suffering (and were stating that they didnt really care at the time), but now we have this issue with dead pixels? gaaah, this just isn't acceptable. Those who purchase the PSP should not need to endure such frustrations.

[mrwiseman]

Fucking US patents, I'm so tired of all this patent shit. This only damages the videogames market. It's so unfair. Like Sony copied vibes and designed their gamepads so you can stick them up your ass. (Besides, I fail to see why only Sony, and why not hundreds of PC gamepad manufacturers, for example.)

I don't know to what grade will this affect everything, but we might see shortages and higher prices because of this lawyer patent shit. Patents are for losers and motherfuckers who are so useless they have an half an idea in their lives and they have to patent it because they can't compete in the market with people pwning them in their own fields with better quality stuff. Patents are a huge market of lawyers. Instead of products, it commerces with law. L-commerce. Nobody makes any real work there, and nobody gets any real service; they just charge for their lawyer shit. See examples at patent-holding companies like SCO, whose only purpose, instead of producing, is to sue and charge for patents. See what Amazon did by patenting "one click check out". Next day some fucker will patent "jerking off" and I'll have to pay an American a few bucks every time I want to spank the monkey.

[One Classy Bloke]

Patent for profit sucks. Patent in general is cool.

[mrwiseman]

Patent's only purpose is profits. No use in patenting something not to make money (or lose less) with it.

[Cataferal]

Yeah, i think the key term there is "lose less". After all, if your competitors use the same technology or ideas that you invent, your not going to be differentiated, and the public will take no preference in either company.

[Nevan]

Wow, that's crazy. And a bunch of shit.

[mrwiseman]

if your competitors use the same technology or ideas that you invent, your not going to be differentiated

Differentiation comes from innovation, quality, and the impossibility of your competition to be as good. It must not come from laws. See how anime is not patented, and a lot of animes have copied a lot of Love Hina, and still, Love Hina was probably the one which sold best. See how RPGs keep using the same concepts (thank heavens they aren't patented by some retarded Americans), and yet every game tries to be different in a way. See how even though nobody patented "5-point plot twist long 2 CD RPG plot", no game came close to Xenogears' story in so many years.

We don't need L-commerce. We need new products, or products that are so good they are hard to match even if you can. Patents are bumps and obstacles in the path to development, improvement, and competition, and contradict the nature of true capitalism.

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[Templar Zeratul]

I'm 100% with you on this one Wiseman.

It seems at the moment that Sony is getting it up the butt every which way.