{"id":182,"date":"2010-03-15T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2010\/03\/ac2-drm-means-playstation-wins\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T06:06:04","slug":"ac2-drm-means-playstation-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2010\/03\/ac2-drm-means-playstation-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"AC2 DRM means Playstation wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The combination of the obnoxious DRM<\/a> placed on the PC version<\/a> of Assasin’s Creed 2<\/a> and the release of Final Fantasy XIII<\/a> finally made me break down and get a Playstation 3<\/a>.  Interestingly, I’m still of the opinion that the Xbox 360 is a better value machine in a purely hardware head to head comparison, but I’ve got my reasons for getting the PS3 instead:<\/p>\n

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  1. PlayTV<\/a> : I don’t have a DVR, or any sort of working video recorder at the moment and PlayTV looked like just what I’d want.  Full HDTV compliance and a guide I can record from.  The only downside is a little bit of messing around<\/a> if I want to copy stuff to watch later on another device, but that’s because of the stupid “FreeView<\/a>” restrictions (note that FreeView doesn’t actually give the consumers anything, it restricts what they can do with the TV signal they receive).<\/li>\n
  2. Final Fantasy XIII : This game was designed with the PS3 (and its Blu-Ray drive) in mind, with the X360 coming in later, causing textures to have to be cut down for the X360 version.  I’d rather see it in full original quality.<\/li>\n
  3. Less region restrictions : Imported PS3 games can be played without any issues on an Aussie PS3.  The X360 is restricted.<\/li>\n
  4. Little Big Planet<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Most of the games I would want on the X360 are also available for the PC, and with my XBox Controllers for Windows, are easily as enjoyable.  Steam<\/a> allows me to purchase these games quite cheaply (if I wait for the specials) so there’s just not as much value in the X360 for me right now.<\/li>\n
  6. User replaceable parts (like upgrading the HDD).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, I picked up Assassin’s Creed 2 for the Playstation.  No PC sale for me with that DRM – they forced me to move to a console so their idea that their DRM is saving the PC gaming industry is just wrong.<\/p>\n

    Tags: ps3<\/a>, assassin’s+creed<\/a>, little+big+planet<\/a>, freeview<\/a>, play+tv<\/a>, xbox<\/a>, drm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The combination of the obnoxious DRM placed on the PC version of Assasin’s Creed 2 and the release of Final Fantasy XIII finally made me break down and get a Playstation 3.  Interestingly, I’m still of the opinion that the Xbox 360 is a better value machine in a purely hardware head to head comparison, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}