Sony's PlayStation 3 has hit hard times. The company has slashed production costs by 35 percent, yet the console still sells at a loss--and those sales dropped 19 percent last month from a year earlier. But these are not the only problems Sony is facing: Now comes a free speech issue surrounding banned words from the PlayStation's "Home." Sony has run into trouble with its efforts to quell what some may consider offensive language.
Sony has banned the use of the words "gay," "lesbian," "bi-sexual" and "Jew" -- among others -- as club names, and is filtering them from text chats. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that this has left certain groups unable to express their solidarity. For instance, a gay allegiance could not give themselves any moniker containing the word "gay," for it would be filtered out.
Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.
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Huzaifah from eXputer: "Sleeping Dogs from the early 2010s is one of the best open-world games out there but in dire need of a resurgence."
You say "yet" as if it's even possible anymore. United Front Games is gone, along with anyone that made this game what it is
That’s what happens when games sell poorly. And I’ve seen people wonder why people cry when a game sells badly… this is your answer.
Majority of the time it's true but if a company/publisher is big (in terms of money), they can take a hit or 2. e.g. I am not worried about Rebirth sales as Square will make Remake 3 anyway but if FF 17 doesn't sell then Square might need to look for alternative. <-- my humble opinion
Oh okay, Activision owned True Crime, but when that didn’t sell as intended it was canceled. Six months later Square Enix bought the rights and changed the title to Sleeping Dogs.*
*As per Wikipedia
Sleeping Dogs was a sleeper hit back then. It was fantastic. It actually still is. Would love a sequel to this, or at least a revive of True Crime series.
It's hard to take your publication seriously when you're calling 1 month of slightly lower sales "hard times".
"The company has slashed production costs by 35 percent, yet the console still sells at a loss"
If sony cut production cost by 35%, and they are selling it for $399.00, they would be making over $100.00 on every console sold.
Production cost before 35%: almost $450.00
Production cost after 35% : under $300.00
the censorship comes in cuz we go problems with people that take it too far decide to be funny and say racist dumb statement and now they have to take action. as for words that are clean and get censored out, well real simple, spell the word right, and as for that gay club thing well gay can be used as an offensive term to someone
THIS IS THE HUNDREDTH ANTI-PS3 ARTICLE I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST WEEK!!! THESE FANBOYS WON'T GIVE IT A REST!!! SERIOUSLY!!! WE HAVEN'T POSTED ANY OVERLY NEGATIVE RROD ARTICLE ONE AFTER ANOTHER!!! STOP THIS AND GET A LIFE!!!!
OMG Run for the willows, for the apocalypse is here!