Where did I solely state that the PS3 was the cause of my dislike?
The OP stated what is your dislike for SONY not SOE nor Sony Electronics.
I do not base my opinions of a company solely on a single dislike.
SOE does a good job of marketing and releasing games, SOE also does a great job of ****ing off their fan/playerbase by deciding to take a game and do a 180 with it (the Jedi, combat, skills, professions changes in SWG).
Sony Music releases a Rootkit and states that Everyone is stupid and would never notice or even know what a rootkit is.
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Sony has historically been notable for creating its own in-house standards for new recording and storage technologies instead of adopting those of other manufacturers and standards bodies. The most infamous of these was the videotape format war of the early 1980s, when Sony marketed its Betamax system for video cassette recorders against the VHS format developed by JVC. In the end, VHS gained critical mass in the marketplace and became the worldwide standard for consumer VCRs and Sony adopted the format.
Sony 1080i HD Camera
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Sony 1080i HD Camera
Since then, Sony has continued to introduce its own versions of storage technologies, with varying success. Examples include:
* Video8/Hi8/Digital8 — In 1985, Sony introduced the Handycam, one of the first Video8 cameras. Much smaller than the competition's VHS and Betamax video cameras, Video8 became very popular in the consumer camcorder market.
* MiniDisc was created by Sony for use in portable music players. They were designed to share the market of Walkman products. Low consumer adoption has seen the product fail outside of the Japanese market.
* Sony also makes heavy use of its Memory Stick flash memory cards for digital cameras and other Sony portable devices; however, few other manufacturers are also making use of this technology.
* One successful attempt was the introduction of the 90mm micro floppy diskettes (better known as 3.5-inch floppy disks), which Sony had developed at a time when there were 4" floppy disks and a lot of variations from different companies to replace the then on-going 5.25" floppy disks. Sony had great success and the format became dominant; 3.5" floppy disks gradually became obsolete as they were replaced by more current media formats.
* The DVD: In the early 1990s two high-density optical storage standards were being developed: one was the MultiMedia Compact Disc (MMCD), backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density disc (SD), supported by Toshiba and many others. Philips and Sony abandoned their MMCD format and agreed upon Toshiba's SD format with two modifications based on MMCD technology.
* Sony attempted, unsuccessfully, to compete with the Iomega Zip drive and Imation SuperDisk with their HiFD.
* In 1993, Sony challenged the industry standard Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound format with its newer and more advanced proprietary motion picture digital audio format called SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound). This format employed eight channels (7.1) of audio opposed to just six used in Dolby Digital 5.1 at the time. Unlike Dolby Digital, SDDS utilized a method of backup by having mirrored arrays of bits on both sides of the film which acted as a measure of reliability in case the film was partially damaged. Ultimately, SDDS has been vastly overshadowed by the preferred DTS (Digital Theatre System) and Dolby Digital standards in the motion picture industry. SDDS was solely developed for use in the theatre circuit; Sony never intended to develop a home theatre version of SDDS.
* Since the introduction of the MiniDisc format, Sony has attempted to promote its own audio compression technologies under the ATRAC brand, against more widely used formats like MP3. Until late 2004, Sony's Network Walkman line of digital portable music players did not support the MP3 de facto standard natively, although the software SonicStage provided with them would convert MP3 files into the ATRAC or ATRAC3 formats.
* Sony is currently touting its Blu-ray Disc optical disc format, which is likely to compete with Toshiba's HD DVD. As of quarter one of 2006, Blu-ray Disc has the backing of every major motion picture studio except Universal.
* Sony and Philips jointly developed the Sony-Philips digital interface format (S/PDIF).
* Sony and Philips introduced the high-fidelity audio system SACD in 1999, but it has since been entrenched in a format war with DVD-Audio. At present, neither has gained a major foothold with the general public. CDs are preferred by consumers because of their ubiquitous presence in consumer devices.
* OpenMG, a digital rights management system.
* ARccOS, a copy control system for DVDs.
* Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation Portable. It can hold 1.8 gigabytes of data, which can include games, movies, music, or a combination thereof. Though sales of UMD movies were mediocre, sales of UMD games sky rocketed.
* MpegMovieVX (Also known as MPEG-VX, EX and HQX) is the video format used in Sony Cyber-shot digital still cameras. It is a proprietary implementation of the MPEG1 standard, which Sony first used in their DSC-F55 model in 1999 and has been using ever since. The format is undocumented and has only recently been reverse engineered by the company Makayama, who use it in their consumer software Digital Camera Media Studio [22].
Fictitious movie reviewer
In July 2000, a marketing executive working for Sony Corporation created a fictitious film critic, David Manning, who gave consistently good reviews for releases from Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures, which generally received poor reviews amongst real critics. [23]
A parody in 2004 was made involving Garfield the movie (which ironically had mostly all negative reviews), which has David Manning giving it two thumbs up because he will like any movie. However, it was made by 20th Century Fox, not Columbia Pictures.
Digital rights management
Main article: 2005 Sony CD copy protection scandal
In October 2005, it was revealed by Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals that Sony BMG Music Entertainment's music CDs had installed a rootkit on the user's computer as a DRM measure (called Extended Copy Protection by its creator, British company First 4 Internet), which was extremely difficult to detect or to remove. This constitutes a crime in many countries, and poses a major security risk to affected users, as well as a small drain on computer system resources. The uninstaller Sony initially provided removed the rootkit, but in turn installed a dial-home program that posed an even greater security risk — a fact that drew further criticism of Sony's actions. Sony eventually provided an actual uninstaller that removed all of Sony's DRM program from the user's computer. Sony BMG is facing several class action lawsuits regarding this matter.[citation needed]
There is a few PRIME examples (taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony)
SOE took SWG which many people liked and turned the game completely around (the Jedi has to be earned, about a year later ok you can start as a Jedi NM).
My and MANY peoples dislike of Sony stems not from one single action but many. The quality of Sony as a company has been vastly overrated lately.
The quality of their electronics is quickly approaching the same level of quality that Ford, GM, Buick etc have (a few good models but generally a joke). Their TV's and monitors are not any better then the competition but yet they are priced a few hundred or more then then an exact model made by a different manufacturer. My father went through 2 models of the same reciever (1st was sent back to Sony under warranty and they exchanged it, the second they refused to fix stating the warranty was void after exchange), he bought a Pioneer reciever and hasnt had a single issue with it(it is on 24/7 excluding power outages).
The quality of SOE is a joke, and people actually dread games that they release (Vanguard looks like a great game but many people have actively stated doubt now that SOE is distributing the game).
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