French Court Says Prisoner Can't Have a PS3, but Could Use Xbox 360

Kotaku - The latest Xbox 360 exclusive? French prisons. An inmate recently lost his appeal to have his PlayStation 3, and the privilege of playing it, restored to him, and it seems the PS3's on-board WiFi connection is the problem. Good ol' Xbox 360, remember, didn't have that feature on the Elite or the Arcade models.

[GalacticEmpire]

RROD has a completely different meaning in prison.

[Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II]

Is kinect allowed in prison? :D

[Godmars290]

Why do you think, "Kinect, Drop the Soap" even exist?

[Gazondaily]

LMFAO!

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

lol they know xbox is better punishment.

[HarryMasonHerpderp]

I literally laughed out loud at that comment :D

[Welshy]

Perhaps it's added punishment?

Deliberately buy refurbished, 4 year old white 20gig consoles that will last approximately 2.3 matches of FIFA before the RRoD kicks in and they are told they won't be getting a replacement.

[TheTwelve]

Give the criminals an Xbox!!!

[LOL_WUT]

Let them suffer eh?

[MariaHelFutura]

This is gonna be hilarious.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

OK that is pretty comical.

[GreenRanger]

Don't drop the controller!

[sway_z]

Imagine the Judge considered having to play an Xbox 360 as punishment. No Parole, No Visits...No PS3

[Donnieboi]

Xbox but no ps3? Seems fair, can't let these crooks have too much fun, now can we. After being behind those 4 walls with nothing to play but Halo, Gears, and Forza re-hash of games, he'll be on his best behavior just so he can get the hell out of prison.

Seems like an appropriate punishment. I jk/

[torchic]

I only clicked on this article for comments like these

[HarryMasonHerpderp]

The thought of one day having the chance to play PS3 exclusives is going to make this man turn his life around.

[Donnieboi]

Lolololol

[ZodTheRipper]

I'd give you 2 bubbles for that comment if I could.

[SaffronCurse]

He could use the 360 with the condition that he'll only have Xbox live Silver.

[GreenRanger]

"it seems the PS3's on-board WiFi connection is the problem. Good ol' Xbox 360, remember, didn't have that feature on the Elite or the Arcade models"
Wouldn't the prison have had a password protected connection?

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

They may have some computer hardware specialist criminals that, with access to an antena, could assemble some kind of device to comunicate with outside, not just the prison wi-fi (which itself can also be cracked too, remember those people have a lot of "free" time). Simple as that.

[solidt12]

Wait a minute, I guess criminals really aren't that smart because he could of asked for a old 20 gig PS3. They did not have wifi. "You big dummy" in my Red Fox voice.

[Foxhound922]

Now that's what I call punishment

[jjb1981]

Make him play AMY!

[Why o why]

Many funny comments here...all in good taste I hope

[ThatCanadianGuy514]

Now that's just cruel and unusual punishment.

[WeAreLegion]

20 Gb PS3 had no Wi-Fi. Morons...

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

But was it ever launched in France/Europe?

[WeAreLegion]

The PS3 is not region-locked. I don't think "Having wi-fi" was the real reason. That's the point I'm making here. It would have been very simple for them to get a PS3 without wi-fi.

[wolokowoh]

It's also only 20gb. You can't even play the PSN version of Uncharted with that. He'd have to upgrade to a reasonable size just to play multiple games without have to uninstall and reinstall regularly. Plenty of games still have multiple Gb installs. Look at GT5. That take half by itself for the "optional" install.

[WeAreLegion]

Tell me about it. I had a launch 20 Gb. :/ You can just put a bigger HDD in there. It's not the real reason.

[shadowwizard]

LMAO, loving all these comments guys, N4G community FTW!

[darkmonkey13x]

and he will be playing Grand theft auto?? :P

[BrianC6234]

This is a good reason to not have always online consoles. What will the prisoners play? :)

[Relientk77]

France is owned by Microsoft

Confirmed

[Zechs34]

ALWAYS ONLINE CONFIRMED!

Oh wait...

This isnt a story about always on DRM exclusive to the prison model Xbox?

[miyamoto]

Denying prisoners no PS3 is capital punishment already but giving them a 360 instead is torment

[GABRIEL1030]

You cant play Uncharted, but you can play Gears of War.. Deal with it!

[GreenRanger]

The warden threw a party in the county jail.
There was no PS3, it was an epic fail.
My cellmate likes Sesame Street and is bipolar.
He turned on his Kinect and screamed "You are the controller!".
Let's rock!...

[cr33ping_death]

Reeducation by having prisoners look at the RROD with subliminal messages? nice one France

[cyclindk]

Little Jimmy:

"Mom! Someone named In4_157-to-life keeps tea-bagging me after he kills me."

Mom:

"That's nice dear, tea is good for you, add him to your friends list."

[GribbleGrunger]

Hasn't the poor guy suffered enough?

[Max-Zorin]

Came here to laugh at the comments. Was not disappointed.

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Maybe its because the ps3 is a better media player?

Maybe its because ps3 has home and it would make the prisoner feel like he was free?

[Hicken]

Um... I don't know how to tell you this but...

No, nevermind.

A for effort.

[TheObserver]

The judge is afraid that the inmate may attempt to..... jailbreak his PS3!!

Yo dawg.... I heard you are in prison, so here's a
PS3. So you can attempt to jailbreak while you attempt to jailbreak.

[kingPoS]

Games in the prison!?!?

Even the prisoners got it good in France. ne

[Moncole]

They dont want him to have wifi access, that is all.

[DFresh]

That prisoner will probably just use the Xbox as a Sex box instead of using it for gaming.
LOL.
XD