Well what did you expect of a major international company? Did you expect them to be nice guys?
I have a SONY walkman that's ok most of the time, but there's a problem. The damn thing only reads SONY produced CDs 100%, as in no skipping, nothing wrong with the sound. I live in Canada and so I buy quite a lot of Canadian based artists, who are produced by the likes of Socan music you know. Socan will frequently skip or mess up on my walkman. These Socan CD's are by no way inferior, and they play perfectly on a big stereo we have at my house, not to mention any non-SONY player.
I have no Playstation or PS2, and don't plan on ever getting them. I've always been a Nintendo gamer, and now with the gamecube coming out I want Nintendo to kick SONY's miserable ass (not to mention beat the crap out of Microsoft and their X-Box). If I want any big company to win, I want Nintendo because most of the time they've got good heads on their shoulders (and atleast have a better track record for being good to customers as opposed to screwing them over).