I bought my PS3 to play games on. SONY make magic kit so if it helps them contunue making fantastic kit and prevent hackers from mucking up my system or disabling the network for some reason then good for them. The PS3 is a games machine... And is sold as a games machine and DVD player. Of late the machine has more browser features and I guess these facilities are ever going to be expanded. If folk want a third party use for any machine then they probably need to use a home grown system unbadged without its own operating system.
So no they are not what you called them. They in fact sell a machine that gives me hours of pleasure... Currently Final Fantasy XIII, before that Bayonetta... next up God of War and on and on.
What I do object to and would use the B word is the BBC iPlayer on the PS3. The BBC should be disbanded or run as a commercial operation and stop taking money from me to support their outdated, bloated, unproductive, self indulgent load of crap. I haven`t watched BBC since 1995 so why should I pay for it. Now that is something worth moaning about.
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