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I dont remember it going like that all. I explicitly remember OtherOs being removed because of this hack. http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_hotz#cite_n

I dont remember it going like that all. I explicitly remember OtherOs being removed because of this hack. http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_hotz#cite_note-12 http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/george_hotz#cite_note-12 Lets go to World Heritage Encyclopedia. > January 22, 2010, he announced that he had successfully hacked the machine by enabling himself read and write access to the machine's system memory and having hypervisor level access to the machine's processor > On January 26, 2010, Hotz released the exploit to the public. It was done on the original firmware (OFW) 3.15, then using his codes he made it into a 3.15 CFW, or Custom Firmware. It requires the OtherOS function of the machine, and consists of a Linux kernel module and gaining control of the machine's hypervisor via bus glitching > On March 28, 2010, Sony responded by announcing their intention to release a PlayStation 3 firmware update that would remove the OtherOS feature from all models,[17] a feature that was already absent on the newer Slim revisions of the machine. Why lie about something trivially verifiable?

nitrogen 6y ago
> a feature that was already absent on the newer Slim revisions of the machine. Sounds like it was clear what Sony was doing.
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago
  That is NOT the claim. The claim was that OtherOS was removed from the fat PS3s. How else would Sony have undertaken a lawsuit about OtherOS being removed as an advertised feature from the Fats?
- selectodude 6y ago
  The entire reason for Other OS was so it would be taxed differently in the EU, which taxes computers less than game consoles. Once the BOM was low enough (and they transitioned to the slim), the difference wasn't important and they nixed Other OS. Geohotz' hack was merely a further impetus to get rid of it on the early "phat" versions.

nitrogen 6y ago

> a feature that was already absent on the newer Slim revisions of the machine. Sounds like it was clear what Sony was doing.

NikolaeVarius 6y ago
That is NOT the claim. The claim was that OtherOS was removed from the fat PS3s. How else would Sony have undertaken a lawsuit about OtherOS being removed as an advertised feature from the Fats?
selectodude 6y ago
The entire reason for Other OS was so it would be taxed differently in the EU, which taxes computers less than game consoles. Once the BOM was low enough (and they transitioned to the slim), the difference wasn't important and they nixed Other OS. Geohotz' hack was merely a further impetus to get rid of it on the early "phat" versions.