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That's good for you, and I fully support your decision, but I wish to posit an argument about Sony and their numerous "debacles" over the past decade starting f
by uxp 11y ago
That's good for you, and I fully support your decision, but I wish to posit an argument about Sony and their numerous "debacles" over the past decade starting from the CD Rootkit.
Do you remember when Sony went after GeoHot, George Hotz, and fail0verflow for his and their reverse engineering of the PS3 and the outrage and virtual pitchforks that were raised with others touting that they too would never purchase a SCEA/SCEI product again?
Remember even more outrage that was raised after PSN went down and it was revealed just how incompetent their internal network security was and how they allegedly stored unencrypted user information and used significantly insecure and broken cryptographic hashing algorithms?
In both instances, people said that they were done with Sony. Yet, the Xbox One has had significantly less adoption than the Sony PS4. Please note, I'm not going to argue that the people that said that they were no longer purchasing Sony products are the very same people that bought a PS4 over an Xbox One, but I am arguing that these people had a minuscule to nonexistent effect on the overall repercussions against Sony as to not matter.
Searching for "Xbox One PS4 Sales" brings up hundreds of articles ranging from just after launch up to this very day with month-by-month numbers landing from a 1.4 million unit difference in January of 2014, to a 1.7 million difference between the PS4 and Xbox One in the second quarter of 2014, and estimates at that time of 9 million PS4s sold globally versus 5 million for the Xbox One. An article from October of 2014 pegs the PS4 at a 40% lead over the Xbox One. This is a significant difference. Apparently, no one else cares how draconian or insecure a company treats their data, because only a few people remember the short term disasters over the long term entertainment value they receive from the products produced by these companies.
- MaulingMonkey 11y ago> Please note, I'm not going to argue that the people that said that they were no longer purchasing Sony products are the very same people that bought a PS4 over an Xbox One Given the "currently playing" lists on e.g. Steam after a boycotted game releases? I'm going to make that argument. It seems most simply don't have the willpower to maintain a boycott until even, say, the first sale for a single game - nevermind a whole company long term. It's easily 90% noise. Talk is cheap. > but I am arguing that these people had a minuscule to nonexistent effect on the overall repercussions against Sony as to not matter. [citation needed] While I'd be inclined to believe you're right based on the mentioned ancedata, that doesn't necessarily mean they'll have a minuscule effect on other companies, if consumers are ever sufficiently incensed enough to follow through on their word. Or avoid purchasing from them without making big fuss about it, as I'm currently doing with Lenovo for at least my next purchase. I'd also note that laptops are a bit more "fungible" than consoles and gaming networks, in the sense that you can easily find similar laptops with similar specs for anything you might want from Lenovo's lineup. You'll hear gamers talk about how they "need" the latest COD, or a PS4, but they're more likely to pun about "Hell" (if only out of amusement) than talk about how they "need" another Dell. Or Lenovo. Better chance of making a difference? ...that said, I'm not seeing any kind of significant dip in Lenovo's stock price around the Superfish debacle. Superfish doesn't appear to be publicly traded, although their placeholdered homepage is a good sign for bad things having happened to them.