A severe flaw in all non-slim models of the Playstation 3 presented itself for a few days this week, resetting dates, denying access to the Playstation Network, and making games on the platform such as Heavy Rain more unplayable than usual.
While this was obviously a tremendous blunder, it had the inadvertent benefit of pointing out that this whole “mandatory networked user experience with worthless trophies/gamerpoints” thing might not be such a good idea for end users that like to buy things and use them whenever they like, especially when combined with Ubisoft’s you-must-constantly-be-online-or-your-game-will-shut-down DRM for PC games and the news that the original Xbox will no longer work with Live.
If a global PS3 outage wasn’t the worst thing that Sony has done to the platform, what would qualify? I have a few nominees.
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Name Of The Game
Before the Playstation 3 was announced, an internal debate raged on for months at Sony regarding the console’s name. Several key figures were intent on abandoning the brand recognition that the company had accumulated over the course of the previous decade in favor of something fresh, with a cross-demographic appeal. (more…)
