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NO må vi huske på at det er ein persons uheldige ytring det er snakk om, men det er synd likevel at man ikkje tenker seg bedre om. Spesielt når Sony til no har fått bevist at internett kan gjøre ting litt større enn det virkeligheten tilsier.

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joda men rart at alle de andre store firmaene klarer og bruke hodet før de snakker, til en viss grad... litt rart at sony har flere A4 sider med temmelig bak mål utalelser.... så det er noe galt med sony...

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Jeg tror muligens Sony har litt problemer med japansk-engelsk oversettelsen. Det er eneste rasjonelle forklaringen hvorfor de kommer med uttalelser som jeg ikke engang ville funnet på i fylla. :!:

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kan jo hende han spøkte da ;)

 

1. We have been hearing report about ps3 demo kiosk's that is freezing up? Can you comment on that?

 

Sony rep. : Yes, we freeze the kiosk's so that customers don't play to long and get sick! hahaha

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Herregud da. Her er historien som er kilden til artikkelen. Som vanlig blåses ting opp for å få sony til å se mest mulig dårlig ut.

 

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by Nick Brutal on 12.26.2006

Have you ever spent any time in a Best Buy, EB Games, or GameStop playing their PlayStation 3 demo unit and have it freeze up on you? No, you haven't... or so I was told by a Sony rep a few days back. Read on to find out more.

 

Just before the launch of the PlayStation 3, I walked into a local EB Games and noticed that they had finally (three days prior to launch) received their demo kiosk. Problem was, it was turned off. Right next to the hulking beast of a setup, two teenagers were wailing on "You Really Got Me," the Guitar Hero II demo, and the PlayStation 2 was in full force.

 

Curious, I asked the annoyed, bored-looking clerk why anyone would dare do something like turn off a PlayStation 3 (The penalty for such an offense? Death, in some states).

 

"Well," he sighed, "it's locked up on us about five times. And we got it this morning."

 

He explained to me how when the machine would freeze, he would have to unlock the kiosk and hard reset the machine -- every time. It was easier, he said, to just leave it off and let people drool all over the protective plastic that housed what appeared to be an empty shell of a PlayStation 3 -- if you don't know, the actual unit is housed below the kiosk and is not visible. This, to me, was a fine explanation, and not surprising considering reports I've heard of units freezing at trade shows; and hey, the damned thing is cased in metal with little or no ventilation. I'll let it slide.

 

Cut to a busy Christmas Eve: The same EB Games is bustling with last minute shoppers; a child knocks over a World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade promotional display; frantic mothers blather on about games they can't remember the names of; and in the middle of it all I spotted a Sony PlayStation retail rep frantically cleaning off the very same kiosk I had mentioned earlier. I wasn't going to let him get away.

 

"Happy Holidays," I said.

 

"Oh, hi! I'll be done here in one second and then I'll turn on the unit so you can get a glimpse of the future."

 

"Oh, I know all about it," I said, trying not to laugh. "I have the future at home. In my closet. Still in the box. Trying to sell it. No takers."

 

After a short, awkward silence, I decided to go in for the kill.

 

"So dude over there," I said pointing to the busy clerk, "says he keeps the kiosk off because it keeps freezing up."

 

"Nope. No it doesn't."

 

"Well, actually, yeah. It does. I've seen it happen myself."

 

"No. It doesn't. We did that on purpose," he said.

 

"You make the entire console lock up on purpose because ... why?"

 

"We do that so that people won't play it all day long," he explained. "Specifically during Motorstorm, we made it freeze up a lot."

 

I'm totally confused at this point, completely stunned at what I'm being told because it's the stupidest thing I'd ever heard. I let him rattle on for a while, trying to convince me (and probably himself) that yes, Sony went out of their way to have their consoles lock up so that the masses will not spend hours upon hours basking in all its glory.

 

He went on about how a PlayStation 3 shouldn't be hard to get now, and how they're shipping them out of Japan daily. I waited for him to spill the beans on the Cell processor powered, mechanized laser-breathing dragon they use to import the consoles to the States, but he revealed nothing.

 

When the Sony rep was done and finally turned on the future, I decided to stick around and play some Motorstorm (which is pretty damned awesome). Didn't freeze up on me once.

 

Later, I was told by a Best Buy employee that they were told the same thing -- the locking up and freezing was intentional. So, if you're sitting at home and your console locks up on you or your Bluetooth controllers aren't performing the way they should be, don't worry about it. It might be on purpose.

 

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Sier det meste dette, er altså ikke en høytstående sony rep som har sagt dette.

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Er vel litt flaut for alle som går 5 på hver gang ett rykte som disse dukker opp på diverse spill sider. På tide å bruke litt sunn fornuft? Skjønner at det er inn å hate/disse sony, men det finnes da grenser.

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Nåja.. gikk vel ikke 5 på, var meget skeptisk, men tenkte at det enten var en dårlig oversettelse eller ett spøk fra denne karen. Så kanskje 2 på eller noe sånt ;) Men alle som kom med diverse Sony klarte det igjen, hvordan klarer de å si noe så dumt kommentarene sine, de gikk 5 på!!

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Det der minnet meg om en av uttalelsene til han irakiske informasjonsministeren som gikk under navnet komiske Ali.

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"PS3 fryser fordi vi programmerte den til det, vi har FULL kontroll på produksjonen av blueray lesere også."

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@ ResidentDante: kan du lese? Har du lest hva historien faktisk handler om? Er ikke akkurat topp sjefen i sony som har sagt dette. Mest sannsynlig så jobber denne personen ikke for Sony. Tipper de kjøper slike tjenester fra lokale tilbydere.

 

@Gorthaur: HAHAHA ;)

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@ ResidentDante: kan du lese? Har du lest hva historien faktisk handler om? Er ikke akkurat topp sjefen i sony som har sagt dette. Mest sannsynlig så jobber denne personen ikke for Sony. Tipper de kjøper slike tjenester fra lokale tilbydere.

 

Komiske Ali var ikke toppsjefen heller, det var Saddam :!:

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Har noen laget en samleside med alle PS3-uttalelsene dems ennå?

 

Hvis ikke burde noen gjøre det!

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http://www.thisiswaiting.com/ :D

 

Denne er genial :thumbup:

 

Edit. Hva synes dere?

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hehe, det var noen gullkorn der ja

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Dette er min favoritt!

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Sier det meste dette, er altså ikke en høytstående sony rep som har sagt dette.

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Nåja, husk på at når du uttaler deg i lys av en stilling i et firma, representerer du hele firmaet. :tease:

 

Tar du ikke hele denne affæren litt for personlig? :p

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Eg må le litt eg og.

Når 360fansen/PS3hatarane har ledd av noko fullstendig grunnlaust og bevist feil vert desperasjonen for stor, og dei tyr til gamle vitsar og bilete som har vore her før. Dårlig redningsaksjon i mine auge.

(Men ja, nokre av bileta er morosame :p ).

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