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Post by GamerL on Sept 6, 2018 20:20:46 GMT -5
There were other PR disasters like when they sued an importer company for selling Japanese PSPs in the US before the official US release date, which made them look like a big ole bully. Was the Lik-Sang? (though I think that company might've been sued for importing PS3s to Europe after the delayed EU launch date) I'm guessing Sony probably wanted them out for selling mod-chips and used console importation as an excuse.
It was indeed Lik-Sang, I never heard about mod-chips though, just selling imported PSPs. It was bad PR because here was this huge corporation, Sony, bullying a little company that didn't seem to be doing something that was a problem, you'd think someone at Sony would have let it slide just to avoid bad PR, mod chips do seem like a bigger deal. Where did the trouble really begin for the PS3? I'd say it was that Killzone 2 trailer, which was so obviously pre-rendered CGI but Sony swore it was real, people don't like being lied to in such an obvious way. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 20:37:06 GMT -5
The trouble began when they announced the PS3 cost $600 and multiplatform games ran worse than on 360.
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Post by GamerL on Sept 6, 2018 20:39:26 GMT -5
The trouble began when they announced the PS3 cost $600 and multiplatform games ran worse than on 360. You are correct that it REALLY began with "the Playstation 3 will retail for.... five hundred and ninety nine US dollars!" But they were already on thin ice with gamers over the Killzone 2 trailer. |
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Post by retr0gamer on Sept 7, 2018 3:02:29 GMT -5
Lik-Sang was sued by Sony for selling PSPs to Europe. By that time they had long since stopped selling mod chips.
The reason they wanted to close lik-sang was that they could charge more for the PSP in Europe and it would have eaten into their profits. It was really annoying as a lot of Hong Kong importers stopped selling Sony products and games to Europe for a few months afterwards.
Also Sony closed Lik-Sang in the shittiest way possible. The actual law case contradicted free trade laws and would have been thrown out in any court it was brought up in. So Sony filed for the law suit in every country they could in Europe. Lik-Sang didn't have the man power or money to defend itself in all these territories so had to close.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Sept 7, 2018 23:46:58 GMT -5
Yea I'm really glad I waited until way late to get a PS3. I got one of the old fully backwards compatible ones as a replacement for my dead PS2 so I could play the exclusives like LBP and Last of Us.
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Post by kaoru on Sept 8, 2018 3:35:42 GMT -5
Confession time: I never owned a PS3. I borrowed my nephew's one for a week every time I got a game I really wanted to play. That's also one of the reasons I skipped digital only stuff like Tokyo Jungle, Wizardry, Yakuza 5 and Drakengard 3.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 11:39:01 GMT -5
Drakengard 3 had a physical release. It's sitting upstairs in a box somewhere.
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Post by kaoru on Sept 8, 2018 11:48:22 GMT -5
Not in ze Good Ol' Europes, which is where I am from.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 11:52:04 GMT -5
Well shit, man. You need to get a PS3! Tokyo Jungle alone is worth the price of admission.
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Post by kaoru on Sept 8, 2018 11:59:57 GMT -5
That'd be the logical thing to do, of course. But I'm honestly a bit affraid I'd wake up a month later with 200 new games in my backlog to never get to.
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Post by kingmike on Sept 8, 2018 12:05:01 GMT -5
Drakengard 3 had a physical release. It's sitting upstairs in a box somewhere. Indeed. I see mine sitting on my shelf. |
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Post by GamerL on Sept 8, 2018 18:38:28 GMT -5
Not in ze Good Ol' Europes, which is where I am from. Ho ho ho ho ho! Right, guv'nah? |
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Post by paperchema on Sept 9, 2018 17:39:17 GMT -5
PS3 was quite a mess. I basically passed on it since I didn't have an HDTV and reports were that some games were illegible in standard definition. That was the point that I went Nintendo only although I did pick up quite a few used PS2 games over the years. Plenty of video store closing also meant a huge supply of former rentals that were available for dirt cheap. I picked up something like 15 from a single closing for around $60! I do regret not grabbing a PS3 with hardware backwards compatibility when I had the chance though. I had an opportunity for a cheap one that was barely used, but the lack of an HDTV and what was then a still fully functional PS2 ended up dissuading me. You did the right thing. The PS3 models with BC have a hardware defect that breaks them over time. |
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Post by GamerL on Sept 9, 2018 18:52:37 GMT -5
PS3 was quite a mess. I basically passed on it since I didn't have an HDTV and reports were that some games were illegible in standard definition. That was the point that I went Nintendo only although I did pick up quite a few used PS2 games over the years. Plenty of video store closing also meant a huge supply of former rentals that were available for dirt cheap. I picked up something like 15 from a single closing for around $60! I do regret not grabbing a PS3 with hardware backwards compatibility when I had the chance though. I had an opportunity for a cheap one that was barely used, but the lack of an HDTV and what was then a still fully functional PS2 ended up dissuading me. You did the right thing. The PS3 models with BC have a hardware defect that breaks them over time. Mine broke in 2009. I wish I could somehow have saved my Persona 3 save. |
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Post by dsparil on Sept 10, 2018 9:07:51 GMT -5
PS3 was quite a mess. I basically passed on it since I didn't have an HDTV and reports were that some games were illegible in standard definition. That was the point that I went Nintendo only although I did pick up quite a few used PS2 games over the years. Plenty of video store closing also meant a huge supply of former rentals that were available for dirt cheap. I picked up something like 15 from a single closing for around $60! I do regret not grabbing a PS3 with hardware backwards compatibility when I had the chance though. I had an opportunity for a cheap one that was barely used, but the lack of an HDTV and what was then a still fully functional PS2 ended up dissuading me. You did the right thing. The PS3 models with BC have a hardware defect that breaks them over time. Wonder what all the people that paid a premium for used ones think about that decision now? Do you know what that problem was exactly? |
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