Video Gamers: Please boycott Sony.

[Louis Mielke]

Hey some people are probably going to flame me for this but I would like to throw out a little boycott I'm trying to participate/start a boycott of Sony video game products.

Sony has been at the top of the video game industry for quite some time now but sadly it has gone on too long. Now big headed, Sony has begun strong arming consumers, the industry and retailers a like and it’s got to stop. Sony needs to know that they need the consumers, not the consumers needing them.

I bring this up because of some bad luck a small online video games retailer was recently crushed by Sony because Sony doesn't like their business. Lik-Sang, has for a long time been a video game importer, allowing people to buy video games from different parts of the world. Their business has been legitimate and they have grown in popularity over the years. Officials in the game industry have even utilized this company.

Recently Sony decided to be a bully because they thought they might be losing a few dollars over the import companies business. Read about it here. http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3901. I think its kind of sad, no matter who, whatever retailer is selling their products to, Sony is still receiving money from these sales and I don't feel its right for them to snuff out this company just cause they don't like how they do business.


I'm sure someone will argue with me and all kindsa stuff and bring up counter points against Lik-Sang. I don't really care, I just want to get my opinion out and shed some light on the bad taste policies that Sony stands for.

SONY DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS. They should, they're nothing without us and I would like to do my best to show them.

Something’s you can do.

Don't buy brand new video games. Go for used!

Don't pay ridiculous high prices for a new Sony system.
*cough* Playstation 3 *cough*

Forget their crappy proprietary UMD video format and the new BLUE RAY technology that’s Sony's toting. Hi-Def DVD video is almost the same quality and costs less. The average consumer won't notice the difference of Blue Ray discs anyway.



I know this is dumb, but Sony has mistreated their customers for too long now and we've let them. I personally am not going to be purchasing a Playstation 3.

[SYKO]

oh man this sucks, I currently have about 600+ playstation titles mostly ps2, And I have already preordered my ps3. I agree it isnt right for big business to do what they do at times, but, BUT do yo honstly beleive that the consumer can do anythign about it? unless EVery one got involved, and I mean EVERYONE! This thing tends to happen more and more.

But I do mostly buy my games from second hand stores and in fact orders many games from overseas. The ONLY time that I buy new is when its a title that I cannot wake up in the morning without, or a new system.

ANd when you think the price of a new playstation 3 is ridiculous, a "NEW" blue ray player from samsung is over 1000 dollars for Just a player, at lease you get a game system with the ps3 with online capabilities for 400 dollars less than jsut a blue ray player.

I am not going to flame you for posting anythign like this, I personaly dotn buy anything from microsoft becouse if theirs a company that takes advantage of the little guys its them, plus there games suck.

[Dammit!]

Go dvdtalk.com and read the HD-DVD and Blu-ray reviews. In almost every case the video quality is actually better with HD-DVD anyway.

[Eric250R]

I personally have never been that big of a sony fan anyway. Xbox all the way baby!!! And I know....someone is going to want to tell me the PS3 will be better than the 360 but don't really care, Sony will never have a game that compares to HALO. NEVER!!!!

[jsimonh]

I have owned Playstations since they came out. I was a lucky one and got a PS2 that first Christmas they were out. As a late birthday present my mother-in-law gave me a 360. I have 15+ PS1 games and 25+ PS2 games, so I was looking into trading the unopened 360 in on a PS3 until I seen the ridulous price of the PS3! That day I opened my 360 and never looked back. From now on I'm a X-box man all the way.

[theonlyjosh]

I don't play video games very much but our family has never owned anything accept ps1 and ps2, we will be getting ps3... they are better all around than xbox and nintendo IN MY OPINION. It's the customers opinion it's not like your going to stop us sony fans from buying them just because they treat us bad, they still come out with products we like and we will always buy them.

[ATC crazy]

Sony rules...end of story.

We have close to $10,000 of Sony equipment in our house and vehicles.

Sony is a business. Businesses are only around to make money. Live with it.

[theonlyjosh]

couldn't of said it better ATC and if i had 10,000$ i probably would have that much of sony stuff in my house too lol i love everything they make... from cd walkmans to play stations to tv's it's all excellent stuff!

[Dammit!]

Sony as a company, sucks balls. They treat their customers like pure crap. I've had some run ins with them before. I haven't bought any Sony products since the last blowup I had with their customer service over a 19 inch CRT monitor that was still under warranty that they refused to service because I bought it from an online dealer. Nothing in their warranty information says jack squat about online purchases voiding their warranty. Not in the included information, or anywhere on their web site (at the time). It was just an excuse and I called them on it (repeatedly.. and loudly too).

So over $50 worth of repairs, they lost a customer that was in the process of putting together a very respectable home theater and was considering a $4500 Grand Wega. Brilliant! It's been... lets see. Five years now I think. I might give them another go around someday but if there's a suitable alternative, Sony can bite me every time.

/rant

[82300R]

was at best buy saturday and i saw the display for ps3. so i asked the sales guy if they were taking orders. he said no that you had to get in line the day before. so i ask how much they will be, he says 600 bucks . i think we will be sticking with the ps2 and x box that we have now for a while. if it is that much better may get one down the road when they cool off some.

[bassman]

Though the Lik-sang incident was uncalled for and completely BS, i still like sony the best outta the top 3. No boy-cott from me.

[KASEY]

hmmm, the video game market is a very very small percentage of sonys big picture,,, but that doesn't excuse the greed

[Groundworx]

I have owned a lot of Sony products. Recently I haven't been impressed with thier quality at all. I had to return 3 Mavica cameras before I got one that actually worked. Then when I did get one, it quit about 2 months after the warranty expired. Then they wanted to charge me $75 just to look at it. I had kinda the same deal with my PS2. I had to return 1 and then I had to send the other one off to the repair center once. And of course, a few months later, it messed up again and Sony wanted $$$ to look at it. I have had my Xbox 360 for almost a year. I got mine the day they came out and I love it. It sucks there isn't a better selection of games, but I am sure that will change. I love it and it hasn't given me any trouble at all. I am happy with Microsoft. I am not crazy about Sony's quality lately. For a company that is that big, thier quality should be better.

I say that, but I bought each of my boys a PSP for thier birthday earlier this year. I thought about buying a PS3, but I was going to ebay it as soon as I got it and make some extra $$.

[firefirefire90]

iono...sucks..but i own a PSP and i love it. Sony's PS2 was awesome but after a while, all of the games started to not work so i sold it for 200 bucks. Sweet deal i think. Do what you want to sony. If i want sound systems and nice TV's, i'll go for the expensive long lasting non crap shibangbang.

[Louis Mielke]

Sony rules...end of story.

We have close to $10,000 of Sony equipment in our house and vehicles.

Sony is a business. Businesses are only around to make money. Live with it.

Well I can give you a list a mile long who will disagree with you but I'm not gonna do the whole Sony VS Nintendo VS Microsoft thing. Thats not what this is about, nor will this turn into a fight club thread,

but

I do have to comment, why do you reply in true Sony fanboy fashion? You give no real reason as to why you feel this way other than saying. Ugg me have ton o sony stuff. Ugg Sony best. Me have no reason.

Sounds just like some of the Honda boys who crack on Yamaha. In my opinion Honda and Yamaha are equal..

BACK TO THE REAL POINT.

Sony is a business. and Business's are out to make money.
But how do they do that? By making customers happy!

PR is a huge deal. and quite frankly, I'm one customer who's not happy with them.

I mean its almost as if you're saying you'd still support Sony even if they put labels on the game system saying that one newborn puppy had to die in order for this game system to be manufactured.

Would you still buy from them if they were clubing baby seals and making funny haha over it?

Were does the fanboyism get put aside and the real opinionated consumer come out?


Sorry for going out on a rant but it just burns me sometimes when someone puts on the caveman attitude. Ugg. Me Say BRAND X rules even if brand X bends me over and puts it were the sun dont shine.