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I’ve never even owned a PlayStation but I’ve owned enough absolute shit made by Sony that I started boycotting them like 15 years ago. They really are a truly shit company. It always amazes me they are considered a quality brand.

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Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Word! The nastiest vendor lock in bullshit you’ve ever seen. My bitchin’ yellow Walkman aside, bad products top to bottom.

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- dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You’re hyperbolizing. The Playstation 2 is the best selling video game hardware of all time. It was the opposite of a “bad product” objectively.
  
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  - Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sony spent 20 yrs completely committed to proprietary storage media. They sold memory sticks and the like at vastly inflated costs compared to the media built to standard specs. The PS 2 was smack in the mix with that shit. Remember memory cards? They used special Sony developed encryption, for no reason but to maximize vendor lock in.
    
    The PS4 and 5 being storage manufacturer agnostic is a really big deal and I will give them credit for it.
    
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dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What about the PS3 era of Sony made you go “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”

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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Like I said, I never owned a PlayStation. What made me boycott Sony is buying many products, things like headphones, and paying double or triple the price of comparable products which probably were better than the more expensive Sony version. I know I had some shitty koss headphones I bought for $30 that were better than $200 Sony ones.
  
  And I know someone is going to question this and ask me what model, etc. I don’t know or care. It wasn’t just the headphones it was just several times in a row of thinking I paid more and got something nice and later finding out it was shit.
  
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