Rumour: GTA IV downloadable content to be MASSIVE!!

Another whole what in your wallet?

When you have what is termed as MASSIVE downloadable content, such as an entire new city for a game, in most games, that is called EXPANSION PACKS. For which you have always been charged for, no matter the console or platform. Now to say that Microsoft is charging us for it is quite an error that somebody supposedly as smart as you are supposed to be should not be making. This extra content is produced by the game maker, and is sold by the game maker. Albeit Microsoft is taking a cut, as this is being sold on their service, and there is royalties to be made. Do you honestly believe that Sony is not taking royalties for every bit of content that is sold for the PS3? They are selling these console at a loss as well, making their money back on content!

What I don't understand, is this supposed fascination with Sony, that they are this little guy who are being oppresses by the big bad Microsoft, when they are as guilty if not more so that Microsoft at being a company that screws their customers. Anybody remembers PROPRIETARY batteries that they charge $120 for for digital cameras? What about them nice memory sticks? Sony has always been about locking their customers into their products and grabbing as much money from them as possible,

And lets not even go into Blue Ray. A substandard standard (did I just use a double standard?) Which was put into the field when nowhere near ready, with missing features and buggy code, and not to mention that anybody that bought a device which had version 1.0 would be SOL when the newer version would be made available as those devices will not be able to receive the update from the mother ship. And what was Sony's response to the plight of the early adopters? Too bad! Go buy a PS3!

Yes, the Sony may have slightly prittier graphics than the 360, but for all intents and purposes, THEY ARE THE SAME THING!!! The games are played the same way, and it is basically the same controller. When you have to button mash on the 360, you have to button mash on the PS3. They did not do anything new on their console either. The only one that is worthy of that title is the Wii.

But to dare say that Sony is the little engine that could, and that the big-bad Microsoft is bashing the poor little Sony entrepreneurs? HA!! A pox on you! May a thousand camels spit at your daughters wedding! May a million flees infest your beard!

The only reason why Sony is not charging you for their live service is because theirs is CRAP compared to Microsoft. "Come play with our machine, our live service is free!". You see I am using the "Live" term as if it were a definition of a broader term, sort of like saying "I am going to xerox these papers" instead of saying "I am going to copy these papers". Even if I say Xerox, you know exactly that I am going to a photocopier and make photocopies. Which is what Microsoft has achieved with "Live". I can say "I am playing Live with my friends", and only the older generation who do not know that a microprocessor is the basis of all computers, would not know that I was going to play online with my friends. Whereas with Sony, I would actually have to use a much longer description to indicate the same thing. "I am going back to my home where I shall go into my dungeon where it is really the only place where I can put my PS3 without feeling embarrassment, and connect it to my Internet so that I can play online with the 3 other people that have bought a PS3 for the purpose of using it as a gaming console, and not a DVD player."

See, much more abbridged when talking about the 360.

All this to say that Sony is just as evil as Microsoft is, and that the only one that could be considered as worthy of the "Little Guy fighting the good fight" title is the Wii.

And that concludes the Revek Rant for the day. Now to run this through the splle sheque.

P.S. Yes, I know.... more than 10 lines.

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