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Is this from the hack two weeks ago? Or have they been hacked AGAIN?
Does Xbox ever deal with hacks like these?

I feel like I hear about Playstation hacks at least once every couple or 5 years. I don't recall ever having to worry about it when I owned a 360 and the short time I owned a One.
 
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To be fair, between 2000 and 2004 processors were still getting better at a neck breaking pace, so packing a PS2 worth of power in an enclosure of that size was still fairly easy.
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Eh sorta, except for the first few months of Japan only models most of the inside of PS2 SCPH-30000 through SCPH-55000 is wasted. 1/4 the space is reserved for a hard drive, 1/4 is the power supply; they were already most of the way there. They did take advantage of die shrinks but all of my PS2s (I have like 9 or 10) run really cool except for the power supplies in 30k and 31k units. Reality is that processors didn't get all that hot back then, it wasn't until like late Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 days where it started to get ridiculous.

The hard drive functionality was really great in Japan at least, even though it was pretty well unused elsewhere except for FF11 and piracy. I was fortunate enough to use PlayStation BB before they shut down the online service, it was very ahead of its time. Plus you could rip CDs to the hard drive and transfer to NetMD MiniDisc units. Old school Sony cool.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Is this from the hack two weeks ago? Or have they been hacked AGAIN?
Does Xbox ever deal with hacks like these?

I feel like I hear about Playstation hacks at least once every couple or 5 years. I don't recall ever having to worry about it when I owned a 360 and the short time I owned a One.
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I think it may be the hack from two weeks ago, but now they're selling off the credit card information
 
Wow, they didn't even try to make it slim, it's just slightly smaller than the old one.
It's crazy to see Sony do the less amount of work this gen whilst raising the prices. From the countless remasters and remakes of TLoU to this slightly smaller PS5.

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Miller said:
Wow, they didn't even try to make it slim, it's just slightly smaller than the old one.
It's crazy to see Sony do the less amount of work this gen whilst raising the prices. From the countless remasters and remakes of TLoU to this slightly smaller PS5.

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This is the classic 'arrogant Sony' that the xbox fags screech about all day, except this time, they're right.

PS2 era Sony saw little innovation. I know there are a lot of fans of the library here but where was that variety on PS3? Nowhere to be found because the devs scattered to the winds.

The PS2-era Sony had to chase trends made popular by DC, gamecube and Xbox. Sony had to introduce a 4-player adapter, a HDD and an ethernet adapter. The only part they were ahead with was the DVD functionality.

Sony had no competition last gen, or this gen. Xbox has been shite for two generations and the Xbox Series consoles are weak and broken, with no exclusives to make the insanely high price for a console even worth considering.

Sony best pray that Microsoft fuck up again because if they get their shit together xbox360 style, another player steps into the ring or the Switch 2 is a competent home console, Sony will get their shit pushed in hard.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Is this from the hack two weeks ago? Or have they been hacked AGAIN?
Does Xbox ever deal with hacks like these?

I feel like I hear about Playstation hacks at least once every couple or 5 years. I don't recall ever having to worry about it when I owned a 360 and the short time I owned a One.
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There were two - one two weeks ago and one that happened in May we just found out about. The one in May was apparently internal info about employees. I don't think it's been determined yet if the most recent hack had any credit card information exposed.

I do know that selling Playstation accounts themselves is apparently lucrative in the third-world. This actually happened to me - someone randomly logged in and changed my password and started following all these random Spanish-language accounts. After resetting my password via email and forcibly logging out all pre-existing sessions, I got an angry voice message on PSN from an Argentinian raging at me in Spanish which was quite amusing. I had to ask a buddy of mine to translate and apparently the guy thought I was the person who sold him the account and accused me of scamming him. Good times.

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This is the classic 'arrogant Sony' that the xbox fags screech about all day, except this time, they're right.

PS2 era Sony saw little innovation. I know there are a lot of fans of the library here but where was that variety on PS3? Nowhere to be found because the devs scattered to the winds.

The PS2-era Sony had to chase trends made popular by DC, gamecube and Xbox. Sony had to introduce a 4-player adapter, a HDD and an ethernet adapter. The only part they were ahead with was the DVD functionality.

Sony had no competition last gen, or this gen. Xbox has been shite for two generations and the Xbox Series consoles are weak and broken, with no exclusives to make the insanely high price for a console even worth considering.

Sony best pray that Microsoft fuck up again because if they get their shit together xbox360 style, another player steps into the ring or the Switch 2 is a competent home console, Sony will get their shit pushed in hard.
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HDD and online play were always on the table for the PS2. The network adapter and HDD kit were available starting from July 2001 in Japan, months before the launch of the Xbox or Gamecube. The multitap was a launch accessory for the PS2.

I would actually argue that the PS3 era was Sony at its most innovative in terms of hardware design - the Cell was an ambitious piece of heterogeneous compute capacity and... it was a massive failure. Sony learned their lesson on that one and just made normal-ass hardware from then on.
 
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Miller said:
Wow, they didn't even try to make it slim, it's just slightly smaller than the old one.
It's crazy to see Sony do the less amount of work this gen whilst raising the prices. From the countless remasters and remakes of TLoU to this slightly smaller PS5.

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All they did was go from "world's biggest console" to "somewhat average for version one of the pro console for that generation"
 
Fcret said:
I would actually argue that the PS3 era was Sony at its most innovative in terms of hardware design - the Cell was an ambitious piece of heterogeneous compute capacity and... it was a massive failure. Sony learned their lesson on that one and just made normal-ass hardware from then on.
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I'll slag Sony off all day long, but I won't fault their technical innovation or ability. The Cell was years ahead of its' time and according to some, is still the best processor in the world.

The frustrating part about their modern strategy is that the PS5 is a ridiculously capable piece of hardware. They just, for some reason, refuse to make a fucking exclusive game for it.

Likewise the PSVr2. Absolutely stonkingly good piece of kit, abandoned and left to die because Sony now hate single player games.
 
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Fcret said:
There were two - one two weeks ago and one that happened in May we just found out about. The one in May was apparently internal info about employees. I don't think it's been determined yet if the most recent hack had any credit card information exposed.
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wasn't the one two weeks ago some other sony property, not psn?

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Likewise the PSVr2. Absolutely stonkingly good piece of kit, abandoned and left to die because Sony now hate single player games.
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same for the PSVR1. had they made it pc compatible they could've made bank, but that's sony for you...
 
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ZMOT said:
same for the PSVR1. had they made it pc compatible they could've made bank, but that's sony for you...
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I agree with not going PC compatible with the headset IF they're going to 'closed-architecture' the shit out of games and make them run better than anything else.

That the psvr2 launched as advanced as it is, then was left to die, is a massive, massive failure by Sony
 
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I agree with not going PC compatible with the headset IF they're going to 'closed-architecture' the shit out of games and make them run better than anything else.

That the psvr2 launched as advanced as it is, then was left to die, is a massive, massive failure by Sony
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Sony seems to vastly underestimate the financial investment needed for game changing innovations.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
I never liked her design much.


So it flopped? Poor hardware sales and no 1st party games I assume, like Vita?
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It's a soft flop. Sold decently well, but not as much as they expected. There's the usual corpo speak about how they're trying to figure out how to move the thing after releasing it which never bodes well.
 
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