So, you hate HBO for making Game of Thrones too, I guess? And Netflix for making Orange is the New Black, 4 Marvel series, etc? I'm pretty sure they don't care about entertaining people either ( ' ;
No, silly, HBO is part of the package of cable TV, so it's not a big deal. Netflix is a cheap enough service that you can get on just about *any* internet connected device, *including* a TV, if it's Smart, or has something connected to it like, oh, a Laptop. (This is my setup, btw.) And coming in a month, get an AppleTV and you have both on one device for the win, with the HBO Now effort that's comin'. Other devices, such as the Amazon Fire stick, or probably the Chrome browser, or some other 'it's just over there, nothin' to it' item, are coming for the HBO Now thing, they're not stupid. Just like the iPhone, though, someone needed to get it first, and Apple won that.
But to watch the rest of Powers, I have to acquire a PS4? $300 bucks at minimum, likely more like $400. AND also sign up for a network $50/month for it, when I don't have or want either for any other need? Just to watch *a* show?
Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Now, combined, would be 8+9+15=$34 a month. Add Amazon Prime if you want, and it's $43 a month. And I have a *crapton* of shows to watch, where as with Powers, it's just the one and costs more.
Forget. That. Noise. Not even in the same class as the HBO or Netflix examples.
Again, I don't know that this isn't brilliant on Sony's part, but time will tell. Surely, they do have a grande audience built in to watch it. But as a motivational tool for a PS4 buy... dunno. Sounds silly.
I'll agree that the practice is crappy. But Sony do care about entertaining people, the issue is that the only want to entertain people who buy stuff from them, which I guess is kind of understandable, but exclusives are pretty much always bad from a pro consumer perspective.
Sony cares about making money and keeping it. Fact. That they just happen to entertain people is a side item on the menu of their making money, and they do not actually care if they entertain anyone. That they can do that and make money is the thing. For if they *cared* about entertaining people... you wouldn't be hearing about their threat to kill a customer's account forever because he got hacked, and doesn't seem interested in the least about clearing the matter up and keeping a customer. (I will admit the possibility that the customer could be lying, of course, and trying to get his money back that he didn't wanna spend, but I somehow doubt this is the case.)
Sony is nobody's friend. They are as avaricial a company as you will find. If a person doesn't have a problem with them, then they will never know the dark side of Sony.