Not really. Taking away OtherOS was the whole reason the PS3 got hacked at all. The community got pissed, put its power behind finally figuring out how to exploit it, and now it's like the iPhone - every firmware update just takes a little time to patch, and the hacking continues. Not only are PS3 games easy to hack, the community has also figured out how to run PS2 (and PS1, and PSP) games on the system, confirming that Sony not supporting backwards compatibility was complete BS.
I don't know why that would be the case. From what we're hearing now, the "family sharing plan" was just a glorified demo whose primary goal was to sell more games. I doubt they'd cut something like that for revenge. More likely, they realized that it would cause even more backlash when people found out it wasn't anything like what they were leading us to believe (I'm guessing this was part of the "the DRM is worse than you've heard" rumor) and tried to bury it in their reversal press release. I wouldn't be surprised for it to return in another fashion.
Not even that, there articles on a bunch of major gaming/electronic sites lamenting the loss of the family "share" plan after MS backtracked on their DRM.
Confirmation other than gaf:http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mis...ystem-reserves
66 pre-orders to 12 in one store, 138 allocation slots to 18.
Fucking hilarious. So glad to hear that nothing of value was lost. In essence, this dipshit is saying "forget the one benefit of what we told you before, there REALLY was NO WAY to share your games".
Yeah that doesn't make any sense. I don't get how once a day DRM/trade bans and Family "Demoing" programs are mutually exclusive. Can someone elaborate on this for me, because I can't quite see where this guy is coming from. From the tone of the pastebin, this guy must have been drinking the MS koolaid hardcore.
It is a hell of a lot, assuming that isn't one of the busiest stores in the company. I worked at Gamestop through the PS1, N64, Dreamcast, Ps2, Xbox, Gamecube launches back in the day. I had a dozen or so stores in my district(in a metropolitan area) and even my #1 volume store had maybe 30 PS2s at launch, the slower ones more like 10. Xbox was about the same, maybe slightly more. I think out of all of those, we had a bigger allocation of Dreamcasts than anything. I definitely remember having 50-60 Dreamcasts at launch per store on average(Segas problem was peripherals. The VMUs and extra controllers were in super short supply). Gamestop has grown a lot since I left the company in 2004, they probably have over twice as many store locations now. So we can probably assume that with twice the # of stores, and that much allocation(assuming that is an "average" store) that there are probably 4-8x as many systems available for launch for the PS4 as there ever was for the launch of any system in the PS1 - PS2 era.
