Sony, Spawn of Evil
This isn't a Sony Says... but, more like Sony Did.
Anyway, a few days ago, news started circulating that Sony was complaining about retailers exporting their game devices against Sony's wishes. How they can do that, nobody's quite sure. Fanboys are saying "it's their product, they can do what they want", but what Sony's essentially trying to do here is prevent people from, say, Europe... buying their stuff from Japan. The majority opinion is that Sony enjoys jacking up the price of their stuff in Europe for nobody knows what reason, and that when companies export from Japan to Europe, then Sony's not getting that extra money from the jacked up price. Importing is good for Europe, but bad for Sony, so Sony wants to stop exports/imports. Dumb.
Well... Sony got their wish. Their target was an awesome little online gaming store that went by the name of Lik Sang, based in Hong Kong, that carried quite literally anything you could ever want for your modern gaming needs. Adapters you've never heard of... modification chips... consoles... games... whatever you can name, they had it, and that's seriously no lie. Unfortunately, Sony noticed that European customers were buying PlayStations from Lik Sang for a variety of reasons. The major reason being that whatever they were buying simply wasn't availible in Europe yet, and they were being fans of Sony and didn't want to wait! That's good, right?
I mean, Lik Sang even has proof that Sony CEOs bought Sony products from them because they were simply too hard to find for themselves. When Sony can't find Sony products anywhere but Lik Sang, you know you've got yourself a perfect job. That's good, right?
Wrong. Sony didn't like that. Sony got angry. You don't want to deal with an angry Sony. An angry Sony is like an angry 5 year old. They don't listen to reason, but they'll pitch a fit and scream and holler and go insane until they get their way. Unfortunately, Sony has enough money to fund their little whiney endeavors. So what did Sony do? They sued Lik Sang. Several times. From different countries. It doesn't matter if Lik Sang could win. They just simply couldn't afford to fight in so many courts at once... so they went out of business.
You realize that Sony just successfully attacked a retailer for exporting Sony products, even though that's perfectly legal? A retailer that Sony BOSSES bought from because the products were so hard to find! (Which, incidentally, is entirely Sony's fault by delaying releases for no given reason.) Well, see, they did have a "reason" for suing Lik Sang. They claim it was because their products weren't rated safe to use with European electricity. Lik Sang tried to point out that they were selling the things with official Sony AC adapters rated for worldwide voltage, but nobody listened.
So Lik Sang, the best online videogame store, period, is now completely out of business. They're refunding everyone orders and preorders and terminating all existing transactions. Why? Because Sony wants to extort you for MORE MONEY.
Where are the fanboys now?
EDIT: Well, I guess they DID actually go to court, but the verdict is still the same.