EU Customs Ordered To Seize PS3 Consoles

[Sterling]

This is possibly the most catastrophic development in gaming history.

If this happened to any other company you would never hear the end of it. Seriously, this is really the end.

They failed to capture the portable market. (Sony is still caught in the "gaming ghetto.")

They fail with the PS3 losing 4.7 billion. (Actually its closer to six billion now.)

They pay an obnoxious kid to go on the internet and mock the Wii by saying "Shove it up your ass, dildo, etc." And when that failed they ripped off the Wii mote directly.

They create animosity with almost every gamer on the planet by attacking Google, YouTube, and PS3 hackers.

They run offensive ads that mock religion, Jesus, Jews, Blacks, Women, Hispanics, Violence against Women, etc

And now this....

This is all the perfect shit storm of karma.

Now I'm sure that I'll lose nothing blocking your comments.

Well, a few of those thing are actually true, and the rest are exaggerations. He's shown a bit more intelligence than just anti Sony this and that. You'll lose every chance at rebuking his arguments with your own.

 

[Qtis]

Off topic: Not all games would be released for all other console if Sony went out of the market. For example Alan Wake was Xbox 360 exclusive because Microsoft payed Remedy Entertainment quite a bit of cash to get an exclusive release. This happens with a lot of games (Halo, God of War, Zelda, etc) if the game isn't owned by the company releasing the games (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft).

On topic: This is just sad. very sad. This is just identical to the way that Apple has used a lot of Nokia's patents while Nokia has used quite a few Apple patents (although the situation is quite different since Nokia actually owns a major part of mobile phone patents because they actually did quite a lot of R&D in the 90's and 2000's). Hopefully they get the restriction lifted. If Sony gets screwed and the PS3 becomes a banned import in the EU (or anywhere else for that matter), it's all of you people who want to get a new release on the release date that gets screwed (including me).


-Qtis

 

[bigpaws]

reminds me of WWII
sony is hitler
sony turns their back to fight piracy(russia)
sony gets pwnd by LG (brittain)
sony commits suiside

 

[TheDarkSeed]

If they're at a stalemate for too long, they'll just be dumping money on these cases. and sony will lose a lot of potential revenue. from these ps3s being halted.

You know what would be a crazy twist? If Germany also put a halt on shipments.

 

[EJames2100]

Just a question, why now ?
Why not 5 years ago when it was released ?

 

[BlueStar]

Just a question, why now ?
Why not 5 years ago when it was released ?

Sony filed patent infringement complaints against LG last year, LG hit back with these claims.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

If they're at a stalemate for too long, they'll just be dumping money on these cases. and sony will lose a lot of potential revenue. from these ps3s being halted.

You know what would be a crazy twist? If Germany also put a halt on shipments.

QUOTEEuropean customs

um...what?

 

[boktor666]

Will it never stop........

 

[Law]

If they're at a stalemate for too long, they'll just be dumping money on these cases. and sony will lose a lot of potential revenue. from these ps3s being halted.

You know what would be a crazy twist? If Germany also put a halt on shipments.

QUOTEEuropean customs

um...what?

Well I'm pretty sure Germany is somewhere in Africa and nowhere near Europe, right?

 

[MelodieOctavia]

If they're at a stalemate for too long, they'll just be dumping money on these cases. and sony will lose a lot of potential revenue. from these ps3s being halted.

You know what would be a crazy twist? If Germany also put a halt on shipments.

QUOTEEuropean customs

um...what?

Well I'm pretty sure Germany is somewhere in Africa and nowhere near Europe, right?

Somewhere between Egypt and South Africa, right?

 

[Joe88]

This is possibly the most catastrophic development in gaming history.

If this happened to any other company you would never hear the end of it. Seriously, this is really the end.

They failed to capture the portable market. (Sony is still caught in the "gaming ghetto.")

They fail with the PS3 losing 4.7 billion. (Actually its closer to six billion now.)

They pay an obnoxious kid to go on the internet and mock the Wii by saying "Shove it up your ass, dildo, etc." And when that failed they ripped off the Wii mote directly.

They create animosity with almost every gamer on the planet by attacking Google, YouTube, and PS3 hackers.

They run offensive ads that mock religion, Jesus, Jews, Blacks, Women, Hispanics, Violence against Women, etc

And now this....

This is all the perfect shit storm of karma.

Now I'm sure that I'll lose nothing blocking your comments.

Well, a few of those thing are actually true, and the rest are exaggerations. He's shown a bit more intelligence than just anti Sony this and that. You'll lose every chance at rebuking his arguments with your own.

he plays the part of the broken record perfectly though

 

[Maedhros]

This is possibly the most catastrophic development in gaming history.

If this happened to any other company you would never hear the end of it. Seriously, this is really the end.

They failed to capture the portable market. (Sony is still caught in the "gaming ghetto.")

They fail with the PS3 losing 4.7 billion. (Actually its closer to six billion now.)

They pay an obnoxious kid to go on the internet and mock the Wii by saying "Shove it up your ass, dildo, etc." And when that failed they ripped off the Wii mote directly.

They create animosity with almost every gamer on the planet by attacking Google, YouTube, and PS3 hackers.

They run offensive ads that mock religion, Jesus, Jews, Blacks, Women, Hispanics, Violence against Women, etc

And now this....

This is all the perfect shit storm of karma.

Now I'm sure that I'll lose nothing blocking your comments.

Well, a few of those thing are actually true, and the rest are exaggerations. He's shown a bit more intelligence than just anti Sony this and that. You'll lose every chance at rebuking his arguments with your own.

He does not want to argue, he's just trolling. His personal statement:
"If you take anything I say seriously you deserve to be trolled."
Why do anyone have to take what he says seriously?
I'm not trying to win nothing here.

There are two extreme type of oppinions: The fanboys and the haters. Why can't people just argue on the gray area?

 

[narutofan777]

i cant believe lg actually was able to do this, sony must be like wtf

 

[twiztidsinz]

There are two extreme type of oppinions: The fanboys and the haters. Why can't people just argue on the gray area?

People do argue in the 'gray area'... It's just the people on the extremes like to label anyone that isn't in 100% agreement with them as fanboy/hater.

 

[machomuu]

There are two extreme type of oppinions: The fanboys and the haters. Why can't people just argue on the gray area?

People do argue in the 'gray area'... It's just the people on the extremes like to label anyone that isn't in 100% agreement with them as fanboy/hater.

Ah...so the killer is the one whom you least expect.

 

[Rydian]

Just a question, why now ?
Why not 5 years ago when it was released ?

Because 5 years ago they wouldn't be able to claim that Sony's made (X amount of money) off of the systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_ambush

EDIT: If they had done it right at the beginning they could have claimed something like "Sony's sold 5,000 systems with our technology, they owe us $5 per system!". However if they waited until Sony sold millions...

 

[KingVamp]

That a mess up way to get money. Knowing someone stole you tech and wait X years to say anything.
You think the person/people who waited X years to say something be at fault. :/

 

[Rydian]

The US patent system allows for lots of shit like this.

Hell, "Patent Troll" is an actual term.