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I understand Sony is driven by profit, though I don't understand how disabling the option to install another OS makes them any more money.

by Zak 17y ago

TheBranca18 17y ago
It's a reactionary move precipitated by the hacking done by that geohat guy. A lot of gaming companies think that by making a console pirate proof (which the PS3 has been so far) saves them money in the long run. Look at the whole Ubisoft Assassin's Creed 2 mess. In Sony's case I think they partly blame the PSP's problems on piracy and don't want it to happen to the PS3.
- gizmomagico 17y ago
  A lot of gaming companies think that by making a console pirate proof (which the PS3 has been so far) saves them money in the long run. Surely it's a big boost to game sales when people have no other option than to buy.
  - TheBranca18 17y ago
    Yeah I agree, I'm just saying that sometimes companies make the DRM so restrictive to prevent people from buying that they can anger people. That Assassin's Creed 2 PC mess is a good example of bad DRM.
- chrischen 17y ago
  There's a difference between what they are doing now and the Ubisoft Mess. With Assassin's Creed they exerted effort to enforce DRM, with the PS3 they are just not making it easier for you to break DRM.
anigbrowl 17y ago
I wonder if they can somehow be persuaded to compromise - all future firmware updates limit the owner to running Sony's OS, but if you're prepared to forego the consumer goodies, they'll lift the hypervisor restrictions. As a matter of act, with little or no marketing or other overheads, they could offer an open PS3 for a bit more than the consumer version (say $400), on the understanding that when you purchase it, you are not entitled to support for anything except physical hardware failure. I'm really sad that PS3's potential as a general computing platform have not been properly realized. Of course that's partly Sony's own fault, but there has been much less interest than I expected even in the possibilities that were available. I thought the Cell offered a really interesting architecture and expected a surge of black-box applications. Oh well.

I understand Sony is driven by profit, though I don't understand how disabling the option to install another OS makes them any more money.

by Zak 17y ago

I understand Sony is driven by profit, though I don't understand how disabling the option to install another OS makes them any more money.

TheBranca18 17y ago

It's a reactionary move precipitated by the hacking done by that geohat guy. A lot of gaming companies think that by making a console pirate proof (which the PS3 has been so far) saves them money in the long run. Look at the whole Ubisoft Assassin's Creed 2 mess. In Sony's case I think they partly blame the PSP's problems on piracy and don't want it to happen to the PS3.

gizmomagico 17y ago
A lot of gaming companies think that by making a console pirate proof (which the PS3 has been so far) saves them money in the long run. Surely it's a big boost to game sales when people have no other option than to buy.
- TheBranca18 17y ago
  Yeah I agree, I'm just saying that sometimes companies make the DRM so restrictive to prevent people from buying that they can anger people. That Assassin's Creed 2 PC mess is a good example of bad DRM.
chrischen 17y ago
There's a difference between what they are doing now and the Ubisoft Mess. With Assassin's Creed they exerted effort to enforce DRM, with the PS3 they are just not making it easier for you to break DRM.

anigbrowl 17y ago

I wonder if they can somehow be persuaded to compromise - all future firmware updates limit the owner to running Sony's OS, but if you're prepared to forego the consumer goodies, they'll lift the hypervisor restrictions. As a matter of act, with little or no marketing or other overheads, they could offer an open PS3 for a bit more than the consumer version (say $400), on the understanding that when you purchase it, you are not entitled to support for anything except physical hardware failure. I'm really sad that PS3's potential as a general computing platform have not been properly realized. Of course that's partly Sony's own fault, but there has been much less interest than I expected even in the possibilities that were available. I thought the Cell offered a really interesting architecture and expected a surge of black-box applications. Oh well.