This is the same company that's been promising cross game party chat for years to no avail
I've never once seen Sony promise that. I've seen countless rumours from it's EA's fault because their games wouldn't run well if sony added it to Microsoft holding patents. Never seen Sony promise it's coming other than maybe saying 'when we hear something, we will tell you'.
and had their network go down for almost 2 months.
They took it offline themselves because they were hacked into. They were hardly going to leave it online to be further hacked. Offline gameplay still worked perfectly though (unlike the Xbox one) and when it came back online we all got free games out of it! Infamous, Little Big Planet and Wipeout to name a few. 3 great games!
They promised the PS3 would run Linux (until they killed it),
It did run it though. They just patched it out because people could hack in through it. Surely the best option to take.
would be backwards compatible (until they killed it)
Again, it was and still is in the fat models. They had it as a feature for like 2 years? During that time sales were crap, the price had to remain high due to it containing PS2 and PS3 components. They didn't kill it in the same way to disabled Linux. If your PS3 ever had backwards compatibility... it still does. They just released a new slim model without BC for much less and it sales increased immediately.
and many other promises (
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/02/sony-ps3-promises/all/) including claiming CG video
WAS gameplay (Go to the 3:40 mark of this video -
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/9149/e3-05-live-day-3-jack-tretton-sony-exec-vp/ from the mouth of Jack Tretton,
I remember that 8days I think? Some guy running and shooting in what looked like a Las Vegas petrol station. Stupid thing to do. They did the same with Killzone claiming the trailer was in game... although the actual game ended up looking much better somehow.
That was a looong time ago though. I remember Microsoft promising to support the original xbox and yet when the 360 came they just stopped all game releases. They also claimed 360 would be backwards compatibly so that's why... yet it was only for certain games. Should we still hold that over them too?
they guy who just led everyone to believe the PS4 would be DRM free)... so I have some doubts that Sony is going to live up to their promises with the PS4.
You could say the same about the 'xbox one cloud'. Or all the promises that came with Kinect. Project Milo? They've been masters of smoke and mirrors for years at E3. They even did an event with Cirque du Soleil and Kinect to show it off... and it was just people pretending to play the game in front of a video.
I doubt either will live up to what we interpret their promises to mean. So far the only mysterious 'promises' of like 'imagine what you can do in the future' are coming from Microsoft (unless I've forgot something Sony said). They're talking up the cloud, yet Forza is just a sharred save file.
Sony have shown they've learnt a lot from the PS3 mistakes. A console designed for developers with their feedback and ideas incorporated. So no more shoddy ports because its hard to develop for. A cheap price, redesigned joypad, subscription online service which should allow them to use that money to improve the service and also because its paid for, they have a responsibility to keep it working and improve on it. Supporting the indies and allowing them to self publish, pricing changed so games can cost whatever the devs want, from free to 69p to a few quid to full retail. Free to use your own peripherals and HDD.
It's not like they did the old sony thing of calling the console an emotion engine etc... They seemed much more grounded and humbled.
Microsoft even seemed to have learnt from their mistakes choosing not to drag out idiot celebrities to read scripts this year. They just did what we all want and show great looking games.
Although their attitude elsewhere is just disgraceful. #dealwithit, "why would I want to live there" when asked about parts of the world that don't have great internet or the required 1.5mb speed. Telling them to buy a 360 if you don't like the xbox online requirement and then the Killer Instinct demo where that guy told the woman "Just let it happen. It'll be over soon". That's really disturbing in a sort of rape joke way. Hey let's bring a woman on stage and joke about how she's bad at games, and say stuff like 'relax, just let it happen, it'll be over soon'.
Insane.
I'm curious what Sony are actually promising though with the DRM. Claiming it's not going to impose any 'NEW' restrictions is what he said. So does that mean online passes will still be on PS3?
Could someone like EA add activation codes to their games and block you from sharing etc - then sony would just say "hey that wasn't us"?
