http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/05/25/sony-patent-pauses-games-advertising
Is this the future of your gaming experience with Sony?
The Sony corporation is planning to put advertising into their games during game-play. it is bad enough that they are dumbing down games with such releases as the Call of Duty series, but now they are putting ads into the games as well. Is the screen-shot to the right an actual example of the future of entertainment? Sure a couple of ads are not too obtrusive during scheduled ad breaks on television, but you do not expect to see ads during an actual game. This is another example of the dumbing down of mass media, it is bad enough that we have to put up with those constant annoying funeral ads on television and life-insurance ads that are never-ending. Ads could be in a game if it was a first person shooter that is set in a city, then obviously they could have billboards and other ads all over the game. But having interstitial advertising interrupting a game is just wrong.
The future of the average American. Mass media and advertising.
The cable television stations are increasing the amount of annoying advertising, as well as the free to air television stations. I can not believe that an entertainment company is planning to drench games with ads as well. That is why I prefer old games, you do not need to sit through a long introduction to get down to game-play. I can imagine playing a future Call of Duty release and seeing Google Chrome ads popping up everywhere. Who would put up with this really? it is bad enough that they were storing user passwords in plain text allowing the Playstation network to be easily cracked, now they are wanting to put annoying advertising everywhere. They are asking for trouble now.
http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/ps3-other-os-feature/ . Sony also removed the OtherOS feature from the Playstation 3. This is another nail in their coffin.
I am a computer enthusiast that has always been interested in maintaining and upgrading computer hardware. I was born on a farm and lived there for 13 years before moving into town. I was always interested in technology and my father always gave me good encouragement for developing my knowledge and interest in tinkering with computers. He was using a computer on the farm but that was in the very late 80`s and late 90`s. Seeing what a computer could do always fascinated me and then I knew that is what I wanted to do. The first time I used Linux was Red Hat 6.2 installed off a single CDROM and I was amazed that you did not need to install any more drivers on my old Intel Celeron machine to be able to enjoy a nice 24BPP desktop and use the GIMP to edit photos and enjoy playing the old Linux games like Xbill. Then a while later I tried Mandrake Linux 9.2 and I was hooked. It came with so much software and was very easy to use as well. Then Mandrake Linux 10 and on through FreeBSD, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1 Suse Linux 9.2, Suse 10 and onto the Ubuntu distributions although I am using Fedora Core 15 and the Gnome 3 desktop at the moment.