I'm having something of a return love affair with Sony but is more a mixed love-hate relationship.
This had kinda been going on for a couple years now.
I have purchased a few Sony products in that time ..
- Sony A99II DSLT Camera
- Sony G Series 70-200mm f2.8
- Sony Zeiss 24-70mm f2.8
- All the above agreed with Job Centre, DWP and NEA
- Except they then stabbed me in the back after I bought it all
- Sony HX300 Bridge Camera (Help build up blogs and YouTue channel)
- Sony Dictaphone, the slim one
- Sony MP3 Player .. again slim one and one that Daniel Craig used in the American version of my favourite film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo .. eagerly waiting for The Girl In The Spider's Web, fingers crossed!
Prior to this I used to earn people not to buy Sony products. For many years. Because despite all companies wishing they could do this Sony were the worst for not allowing their products to work with third party gear. Both hardware and software.
Yes, I would say, they make some nice stuff but .. buy A DVD or Blu-ray player, as one friend wanted to do, and those discs you get off friends? Yeah you player won't be compatible with them.
Then there was the whole Sony Memory stick thing in the beginning. UMD discs. Beta Max. Flac files which my player would not .. play.
In fact in the hd disc wars I thought Toshiba and their HD-DVD, or whatever it was called, would win. One of the rare things I got wrong.
Though I preferred the look and name of Blu-Ray Sony has tried to get a monopoly on formats for years and this could never be for good reasons. I thought people were wise to this and Sony would not succeed?
Over the years I've had several discussions about this sort of thing with gamers, even within my own family of which they are four of us just in my family and four in the other branch.
I ask about multi platform gaming and they give me excuses why it's not possible. I said with the last generation and Sony's Cell processor I could understand that to a degree but there simply is no reason anymore. I said and I've posted about the fact that you all get suckered into platforms and hence you also get fanboys because of this. But really what they are trying to do is to get you to buy into their platform and then but more of their stuff so they get even more money.
Funny how you never quite get everything you need when you buy a console package?
My long time argument was very recently proved by a company I love but have had decision issues with of late. Bethesda.
At their E3 conference they announced a version of a game called Elder Scrolls which is called Blades and in this you can play against someone whose using a PC and virtual reality while using just your .. MOBILE PHONE?!
Case well and truly closed.
Then I get a news report notification today regarding some gamer backlash concerning a game and cross platforming. Well of sorts and not read all the details. Who is this against?
Well .. Sony! Lol.
They have released a popular game called Fortnite on Nintendo's Switch. On this you can do this across platforms with an XBox. Only if you try to do the same things with your PS4 or PS4 Pro you get .. blocked.
After several days of backlash Sony speaks only to say ..
"We listen carefully to fans"
Which roughly translated means ..
'We will continue to take the piss and money grab to see how far we get. We will continue to control and manipulate you and for the most part we get away with it because your gamers, fanboys, addicted and out to with it. Until the point where we push it to far and we will release a statement to say we heard you and we care while we figure out of there's a possibility we might lose money from this. We might give in this time but we'll go straight back to bring c .. greedy selfish people the very next time!'
Oh. Some refer to this as a 'cash grab' while others prefer the term 'cash cow'.
The latter term is normally applied when something is built up with a big fan base and addicts and then they try and apply this to other things. Did not work so well with Disney and Star Wars of late, but get someone hooked on one format and then change that format entirely where we get even more money, now running three offices while only producing one game in seven years, for doing far less work.
Everyone wants to be a monarchy .. or Donald Trump?!
Yeah .. only so much money in any given country and it is inevitable that while a few have a lot .. a lot have only a few. Despite your leftist and socialist claims.
You cannot print whatever money you want and it is completely impossible for everyone to be wealthy .. or even just bloody solvent!
Just look at your app store .. I just do not even bother looking on their any more because it is so effing obvious what they are all trying to do. Money for doing feck all, is what.
The latter term is normally applied when something is built up with a big fan base and addicts and then they try and apply this to other things. Did not work so well with Disney and Star Wars of late, but get someone hooked on one format and then change that format entirely where we get even more money, now running three offices while only producing one game in seven years, for doing far less work.
Everyone wants to be a monarchy .. or Donald Trump?!
Yeah .. only so much money in any given country and it is inevitable that while a few have a lot .. a lot have only a few. Despite your leftist and socialist claims.
You cannot print whatever money you want and it is completely impossible for everyone to be wealthy .. or even just bloody solvent!
Just look at your app store .. I just do not even bother looking on their any more because it is so effing obvious what they are all trying to do. Money for doing feck all, is what.
But true is the same everywhere and is very skin to governments. Well my government at least and it looked to me like it affected the Americans too? Well at least prior to Donald Trump because he is very different to the norm and I'm still trying to work him out. Not doing whether he is good or bad. But I will say a bit better and different. So far.
No doubt Trump haters, especially those full of crap, will go nuts but sorry and I've covered this previously ..
Barack Obama had to terms which is all your allowed to have .. only brought in one of the four or five things he promised and even that's been oh shaky ground.
A Smoky Robinson rendition is not what qualifies you to be President. As good as it was.
Failing in all your promises makes you a failure in my book so this idol worship of him I find bizarre and concerning.
But then maybe that's why politicians just go ahead and do whatever they want?
Maybe their attitude is that the majority are just not intelligent enough to say what's good for the country because when it comes to voting project get starry eyed?
Well in America maybe. Can't imagine Theresa May bursting into a rendition of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven or Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall or Money?! Lol. Good God I think I would die!
People like me wonder when the sandheads and naive people are going to wake up?
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