Sony's PS3 site

I'd like to award the Crap Site of the Month award to Sony's sterling effort: their EU PS3 site. People that have read my previous rants against Sony might feel I have some form of vendetta against the

I'd like to award the Crap Site of the Month award to Sony's sterling effort: their EU PS3 site.

People that have read my previous rants against Sony might feel I have some form of vendetta against the company. I don't. Honestly! If they did something good once in a while, you might see this other side of me... As it is, however, Sony continue on their downward spiral and I just echo that.

I'm not sure what Sony have against Europe, but I feel it's getting about the time where the EU governing body should step in and start placing sanctions on Sony for it's increasing number of game-crimes it keeps committing against us.

The way you get around the site is the screenshot above. You need to hover over one of the webcams and that will shoot a laser out [highlighted] to something on the walls and give it a label. WHAT?! Yeah it's possibly the least intuitive method of navigation ever.

If that's not good enough for you, there's a list of numbers at the bottom of the page taking you to the separate places. And no, they don't tell you what the page is about before you hover. True "mystery meat" navigation.

If you don't have flash or JavaScript, you're in for a treat! Nothing loads! Having seen the state of the site when it does load, I count this as a positive.

Their slogan on the site is still "This is living". I'd like to amend that to: "This is shit". Give it a try for yourself!

#1 /* 18 months, 16 days ago */

This is the sort of thing that should get someone fired. I can't even tell what the things on the wall are to WANT to navigate to them in the first place... and if I did, finding which little laser doodad on the floor corresponds is not worth the time. I'll just merrily navigate away to another page.

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Alex Anonymous User

#2 — Author comment /* 18 months, 16 days ago */

I'm almost positive this is a middle-management "wouldn't it be cool if there were fricking laser-beams!"-style decision...

It's hard to see what makes people make things like this but Sony's age and structure would suggest management do throw a lot of the spanners that get caught up in the works.

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Oli Numero Uno

#3 /* 17 months, 12 days ago */

I HATE when things aren't labeled. D: From what you've said, the site probably won't even load on my computer, due to it's old age and all. What the hell is wrong with a MENU or T.O.C. somewhere on the page?

My little brother turned to me a few months ago and asked what happened to the PS3. XD I mean, the Wii has some fun games for it, and people have been playing cool games for the 360 for ages, but the only mention of the PS3 I've seen is one recurring RACING GAME commercial on cartoon network.

And... Most of the commercial is just the ps3, being all floating and phychic as it is, crushing the monster truck... okay? So if I buy a PS3 it'll do that? Why don't you show me some games for the PS3? I mean, people buy GAMING systems for the GAMES, not to crush multi-thousand-dollar monster trucks in their bedroom. You never even see the damn thing hooked up to a TV.

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Rydian Anonymous User

#4 /* 17 months, 5 days ago */

(i think im gonna have to stop commeting on ur blogs, its starting to become a habbit)

well it seems ps3 realy care what u think couse they have changed the website :o. shame, i liked it.

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matty Anonymous User

Don't just sit there like a lemon! Reply!

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