Sony hate thread

[Marissa Moira]

It must be some kind of zoomer revisionism. Europe, SEA and latin America are way ahead of the US and canada in terms of japanese manga and tv.

Within the past few years, US based companies have gotten the distribution rights to the vast majority of anime. Compared to the 2000's where you had Broadcast Companies like Turner funding stuff like Big O Season 2, there's more series in production now specifically by American companies than there was 20 years ago. Even the merch rights are tied to US corporations or their parent companies. And even the smaller companies have been bought up because there's very little left.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/amc-networks-acquires-sentai-anime-streamer-1235070068/

https://www.wired.com/story/funimation-crunchyroll-big-anime-era-is-here/

Both netflix and Disney are also targeting to fund exclusive programming. Disney this will be their third attempt at having a stake in anime. This is even before you figure in crunchy roll which may be considered a monopoly because of all the international distribution rights it holds after it was acquired from Warner Brothers.

There's a very long history due to the relative close proximity between US and Japan that anime was deemed far cheaper to air and localize than creating a series from the ground up in the west. It's been a very aggressive expansion of this because it's streaming services that are fueling this.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Man, I sure remember the times when the Sony hate thread was actually about hating on Sony

FUCK SONY for making expensive proprietary memory cards for the VITA
FUCK SONY for only allowing the PS2 memory card to hold MEGABYTES of data when its competition allowed for GIGABYTES of storage
FUCK SONY for killing Michael Jackson and picking his corpse afterwards.
FUCK SONY for making 15 bajillon version of the PS3 and either nuking or swapping backwards compatibility with each new model (hardware/software, PS2/PS1)
FUCK SONY for having shitty security considering their online servers get hacked on a daily basis.
FUCK SONY for censoring EVERYTHING.

There, it's a hate thread again.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

FUCK SONY for making expensive proprietary memory cards for the VITA
FUCK SONY for only allowing the PS2 memory card to hold MEGABYTES of data when its competition allowed for GIGABYTES of storage
FUCK SONY for killing Michael Jackson and picking his corpse afterwards.
FUCK SONY for making 15 bajillon version of the PS3 and either nuking or swapping backwards compatibility with each new model (hardware/software, PS2/PS1)
FUCK SONY for having shitty security considering their online servers get hacked on a daily basis.
FUCK SONY for censoring EVERYTHING.

There, it's a hate thread again.

Can you eleaborate on michael jackson

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

I'm just gonna air this one here:

Please don't buy your relatives consumer-grade Sony headphones if they're into music, sound design, cleaning or anything along those lines, they are expensive as hell and the child labour that goes into them is immediately noticeable because of how bad their sound and construction quality is.

Buy them some open Audio Technica headphones instead, they look ugly as sin, feel cheap as hell, ARE cheap as hell but sound great.

 

[Pissmaster]

FUCK SONY for making expensive proprietary memory cards for the VITA
FUCK SONY for only allowing the PS2 memory card to hold MEGABYTES of data when its competition allowed for GIGABYTES of storage
FUCK SONY for killing Michael Jackson and picking his corpse afterwards.
FUCK SONY for making 15 bajillon version of the PS3 and either nuking or swapping backwards compatibility with each new model (hardware/software, PS2/PS1)
FUCK SONY for having shitty security considering their online servers get hacked on a daily basis.
FUCK SONY for censoring EVERYTHING.

There, it's a hate thread again.

They’ve always been kinda shit, but only really shined when their competitors were going full retard, like N64 using carts and Xbox mandating the Kinect

 

[augment]

It boggles my mind that people have enshrined the PS3 as this classic must-have item, instead of the damn disaster it was all throughout its cycle. I'm no game collector, but really between the vita, PS4 releases or rare pc ports there's the digital download stuff that never got rereleased. Also fuck sony for charging a fortune for their controllers though they're not the only ones doing it.

 

[Pissmaster]

The band that did Teenage Dirtbag like 20 years ago put out this album:

they are probably not fans of PlayStation

 

[Marissa Moira]

It boggles my mind that people have enshrined the PS3 as this classic must-have item, instead of the damn disaster it was all throughout its cycle. I'm no game collector, but really between the vita, PS4 releases or rare pc ports there's the digital download stuff that never got rereleased. Also fuck sony for charging a fortune for their controllers though they're not the only ones doing it.

Yeah PS3 shit is insane it was not that good of a console for the vast majority of it's life. That issue with the store was what really made it's popularity skyrocket.

You have people now desiring it so hard that a display error on the PS5 which displayed PS3 games went viral and people thinking new support is imminent.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/01/ps3-games-spotted-on-ps5-store-fuelling-ps-plus-rumours-but-its-nothing-new

 

[thegooddoctor]

Typical Sony elitist behaviour, ‘but it’s not cinematic!! Say what you like about Nintendo, at least they priotise making games well fun itself of every game having to be some Robert Zemeckis level epic.

 

[ChefKiss]

It boggles my mind that people have enshrined the PS3 as this classic must-have item, instead of the damn disaster it was all throughout its cycle. I'm no game collector, but really between the vita, PS4 releases or rare pc ports there's the digital download stuff that never got rereleased. Also fuck sony for charging a fortune for their controllers though they're not the only ones doing it.

PS3 was shit at launch but they actually did a lot to pull it back eventually. At launch they were arrogant fuckheads who didnt give a shit what people wanted, after getting their asses kicked they started a bunch of new first party development and campaigns like #BuildingTheList acting very pro-consumer and establishing ties to third party developers, PS4 also had a great launch off its pro-consumer message with that "How to loan games to your friends on PS4" video going massively viral. It has been insane to see them undo all of that again, losing all their third party exclusives, shutting down great first party studios and acting anti-consumer in every way. They didn't learn a damn thing

 

[Hammr]

Typical Sony elitist behaviour, ‘but it’s not cinematic!! Say what you like about Nintendo, at least they priotise making games well fun itself of every game having to be some Robert Zemeckis level epic.

Just adding one more Sony game to that pic list. Video with timestamp.

 

[Marissa Moira]

PS3 was shit at launch but they actually did a lot to pull it back eventually. At launch they were arrogant fuckheads who didnt give a shit what people wanted, after getting their asses kicked they started a bunch of new first party development and campaigns like #BuildingTheList acting very pro-consumer and establishing ties to third party developers, PS4 also had a great launch off its pro-consumer message with that "How to loan games to your friends on PS4" video going massively viral. It has been insane to see them undo all of that again, losing all their third party exclusives, shutting down great first party studios and acting anti-consumer in every way. They didn't learn a damn thing

Japan Studio had not had a hit in a longer time than companies like Blizzard did and Blizzard's last good game was in 2008. They did the same with their European studios years ago and culled them too and now they're back under Sony's corporate umbrella with all the studios founded by people who used to be at Psygnosis. Not only that their european branches titles are doing better than previous stuff like Killzone. You can see that they're still giving sizable promotion to games like Slitterhead which was made by people who used to be at japan Studio.

They actually do have a bunch of third party initiatives all throughout asia and have drastically increased outreach to smaller teams since last quarter, it's just most western outlets don't report on that shit at all.

There's also been games like Xuan Yuan for years now but these have not caught on in the west yet.

 

[augment]

Typical Sony elitist behaviour, ‘but it’s not cinematic!! Say what you like about Nintendo, at least they priotise making games well fun itself of every game having to be some Robert Zemeckis level epic.

Thank you for reminding me of this gem from the big N

Region. Locked. Gamepad.
With sony you're dealing with retarded morons running a former empire into the ground. Nintendo OTOH is a cultist leader, very much happy to have its fans drink poison to get on that asteroid UFO to the mushroom kingdom.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Thank you for reminding me of this gem from the big N

https://youtube.com/watch?v=90Bs-nHu6qg:353
Region. Locked. Gamepad.
With sony you're dealing with retarded morons running a former empire into the ground. Nintendo OTOH is a cultist leader, very much happy to have its fans drink poison to get on that asteroid UFO to the mushroom kingdom.

I am honestly surprised there isnt a sony retards thread

 

[The Last Stand]

FUCK SONY for only allowing the PS2 memory card to hold MEGABYTES of data when its competition allowed for GIGABYTES of storag

Fuck Sony for making faulty PS2 disc drives.

FUCK SONY for making expensive proprietary memory cards for the VITA

Fuck Sony for considering removing the store from the PS3/PSP/Vita, thereby erasing literal preservation.

 

[Titos]

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORR

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORR
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Fucking hell, I knew they'd take a hit from the ActiBlizz merger but...Jesus.
In the grand scheme of things they seem like they still seem like they're on an upward trajectory but with Activision gone, I'm so curious to see if this keeps going.

 

[Ruin]

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORR
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I'm not really a doomer but Sony might, actually be in trouble. They've stopped producing quality first party titles, alienated Japanese devs, and put 100% of their eggs in the third person Naughty Dog style "cinematic" experience basket which post TLOU2 is becoming more of a meme that people laugh at than an asset.

What do they have that's actually a draw at this point?

 

[Marissa Moira]

I'm not really a doomer but Sony might, actually be in trouble. They've stopped producing quality first party titles, alienated Japanese devs, and put 100% of their eggs in the third person Naughty Dog style "cinematic" experience basket which post TLOU2 is becoming more of a meme that people laugh at than an asset.

What do they have that's actually a draw at this point?

Except that's not really true, they didn't alienate Japanese developers and they're not just putting out third person games either.
They've gone back into FPS games and 3d platformers as well as VR titles.

Most of asia is looking to export their titles to western markets primarily outside of mobile. Even in Japan the Switch is not being lead by third parties, everything in the top ten has been Nintendo's own games with very little actual variety in titles from other studios.

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[BananaSplit]

Even in Japan the Switch is not being lead by third parties, everything in the top ten has been Nintendo's own games with very little actual variety in titles from other studios.

Still mindbroken to the point of denying reality ?

Third-parties on Switch also made up an estimated amount of +8.7 million physical copies sold last year in Japan.
By comparison, the total amount of PS4 game softwares was roughly around 1.8 million copies (and 470k for PS5)