Bastards!!!

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I've always loved my PS3, but Sony have decided to shaft their customers thusly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8594720.stm

What a load of scumbags.

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Yea i'm not gonna upgrade mine, but there will come a time when I want to play a new game and I will be forced to upgrade to the new firmware from the BD first.

Absolutely Gobsmacked!

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Use your machine for what it was intended and dry your eyes.

It was intended to run Linux fool.

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Well, I heard of Linux Mint, but not Linux Fool
 
Seriously though, you're gobsmacked? Over a games machine OS?
 
Is that the biggest thing you have to be worried or upset about in your life?
 
I'd trade your woes for mine anyday..

Are you trying to flame me?
 
Frak off and die.

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Sony modified the hardware and bios of the psx ps2 and ps3 numerous times. I think they should realize by now that nothing they do will stop the hackers. pissing off (on) your loyal customers is not the way to go especially since it won't have the effect you want anyway.
Nintendo has done the same thing with the wii updates. They release an update, the hackers find a way around. I don't really mind since I only install the upgrades I have to, but it still doesn't make any sense.
How many of us have had software for our amiga that is on a dying disk and the only way to copy the disk is a hack, since the publisher didn't provide a way and copy protection prevents the os.
This crap has been going on for a long time.

True, but I think this is the first time they've actually removed a feature that they were previously using as a selling point.

Plus the fact that we wont be allowed to play online without "updating" really is a pisser.

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apart from hardware ps2 compatibility and then software ps2 compatibility

That's not the same.

When I bought my PS3 I knew those features had already been removed due to cost cutting.

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I'm calling this an April Fools joke too.

Come on.

You don't really think Sony would give itself and its shareholders some bad press just for shits and giggles?

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Stop complaining you at least you do not have the former CEO of COMMODORE FRANCE (George Fornay - 1994) current Vice-President of SONY COMPUTERS EUROPE. He was not appreciated in COMMODORE FRANCE & in France ... shame on us the French, shame on Sony.
If this decision comes from him, then double shame on him and SONY.

That doesn't surprise me at all.  CBM certainly had the knack of pissing off their customers pretty well.  Well done George you ****.