You can't tell the difference between phones?

Really? If someone illegally obtains information, they should be allowed to ask for money to keep quiet?

Nice.

I agree with this. Also, my girlfriend works there and I would much rather them evacuate than my girlfriend get blown up because they ignored a threat by "a 12 year old kid" that turns out to be real.

Really? I had a Galaxy S and it looked and felt nothing like an iPhone. Car analogy for /.? Sure, I feel that it's basically like mistaking a Camaro for a Charger. Really, they're that different. They're both muscle cars, they're both nice, they both have the same basic functions, but they're entirely different and anyone that knows anything about cars would never confuse them.

or.. is it wrongful death? Ugh.. Sorry, too much overtime.

But then you ignore a credible threat, people die, and there is a major lawsuit for unlawful death.

(re-posted because I accidentally posted AC because I wasn't logged in anymore *facepalm*)

That's the kind of attitude that I'm talking about. All corporations are corrupt. Sony got caught with one thing and no one lets it go. What about oil companies? They're pretty corrupt, do you still use a car that requires gas? You're supporting them. I support Sony because I like their product. The PSN hack? They made up for it. EVERYONE can be hacked, no exceptions, get over it.

If any of them read /.

Even if they did at one point, then they have probably stopped by now. All posts about Sony are just filled with haters talking about how they will never buy Sony because of the same three arguments. If I worked for Sony, then I would have stopped worrying about the opinion of slashdotters a long time ago.

My guess with the lack of backward compatibility (if it's true) is to save cost so they can sell it for cheaper than $600. With the PS3 they ended up just taking it out and pissing people off because they needed to do something to lower the price since people were complaining about the price.

Agreed. EVERYTHING in this article is very subject to change. No point in getting upset this early.

All of this is rumored. People shouldn't get upset about it before knowing what the final product will be. Besides.. Let's face it, the majority of the people on /. getting upset about this are the Sony haters that wouldn't have bought the PS4 even if was priced at $50 with $5 games.

I personally am a fan of Sony, and if this is true then I will be quite upset about it. However, I am reasonable enough to realize that rumors don't count for anything. Sony has been very secretive about the "PS4" so it's hard for me to believe that anyone can say with an level of certainty that any of this is true.

You do have good points there, sir. I suppose that they would be comparable for the average consumer. Though I've had different experience as far as how often I've seen the issues. I actually didn't see a lot of PS2s with problems for years after their launch, but have yet to meet anyone with a 360 that hasn't had a RROD within a year of purchase. Also, your point about the controllers being connected with short cables is interesting. It could probably be argued that a decent amount of PS2 failures was a result of some sort of impact. Which was part of my original point that they generally did not fail on their own through normal use, but because of abuse or accidental abuse.

So to sum it up. Yes, they are probably comparable from an end user perspective, but PS2s didn't generally fail on their own (Which in my opinion, makes them more reliable. Note that is just my opinion). I got my disc read error only after knocking mine off of my stand.

Disclamer: These are my opinions based on my experience. I am not saying that either of us are right or wrong. I just like to have reasonable debates.

The PS2 disc read errors were an easy self fix. The RROD is much more complicated.

Also, as long as you never moved or bumped your PS2, I'm pretty sure you would never get the disc read error since it was caused because the laser would get bumped out of alignment. To my knowledge, there is no real way to prevent RROD. I had my PS2 for at least three years before I got the error, and I haven't had any issues since I fixed it myself. It still runs perfect to this day.

Agreed. I'm tired of this "Sony is evil, I won't buy from them." on every article related to Sony. Even though I'm sure that the same people support other large corporations that are just as bad or maybe even worse.