Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.

From 23 to 30 of August.

  • Krudler@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I’m still pissed at Sony for the rootkit fiasco. I have not willingly spent one penny on their products since then.

      • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Proprietary in design? Cause ps1, 2 and 3 had the memory cards and those were sold by MadCatz, Neon and there was another really good third party seller that sold those. The PSP original ran off of of regular memory sticks that you could use literally any brand but the speeds and quality of the Sony ones were set to specs for the PSP, like the Nintendo cards are set to specs for the system but in reality you can use nearly any SD card.

        So whatchu talking about?

        • boaratio@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          This: Memory stick pro

          A bunch of their laptops and the PSP/etc would only support these instead of a normal a USB flash drive. And Sony’s stupid proprietary memory stick cost like 2x what other storage mediums cost.

        • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          I was under the assumption they were talking about the PS Vita memory sticks which were already expensive at release and haven’t really followed the trend in prices that other SD cards have since then.

          That problem is mostly solved these days by the modding scene making the SD2VITA so you can use regular MicroSD cards in the game cartridge slot, but Sony would still have you pay $65 for a 32GB stick of their official storage.

          Meanwhile I found an SD2VITA available for $7 and a 128GB MicroSDXC card for $35.

      • Krudler@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        I notice their speaker and AV proprietary connection shit is everywhere … I do audio and HT gear as a side hobby