I am guessing that I am not the only male in the world currently having major rows with his wife because of Sony’s latest firmware update.
I bought a 250GB PS3 slim and took it back to the shop because it does not have the OtherOS functionality, then paid the same amount for a PS3 60GB that did have the functionality.
This morning my wife came to play Final Fantasy XIII and was told she needed to do a firmware update to enable the Playstation Network. I just happened to glance up and see that the firmware update would remove the OtherOS functionality and told her to stop immediately. Argument 1 – never tell a woman to stop.
I sent Sony a complaint:
Your latest firmware update 3.21 has crippled the usage of my PS3. I use the otheros functionality on a daily basis and my wife uses the playstation network.
Your update means that one or the other of us cannot use the PS3 for the use it was purchased for.
I will be fully investigating my rights as a consumer because your company has purposefully removed a feature that was a major part of the reason I purchased the console in the first place.
I fully intend to do as I told them – I will be researching the sale of goods act carefully and consulting my local Trading Standards and Citizen’s Advice Bureau.
I know this is a knee-jerk reaction to the hypervisor exploit that has been released, but I don’t see why I as a legitimate consumer should lose functionality because someone finally cracked the gaming system.
This to me feels like Sony throwing their dummy out of their pram because things are not going their way.
When it comes down to it if we consider the age of the OtherOS capable PS3s we are a minority – not an insignificant number but there must be more of the new slimline users out there than the old machines simply considering the likelihood of failures over time.
I am not a Sony fanboy nor a Microsoft one. I have a Wii, PS3, xbox 360 and don’t play any of them – I much prefer my PC which runs Linux. I have set up the PS3 for my child to learn to use a computer before I actually buy him his own PC.
