>You seem to entirely discount the fact that sometimes the journey is just as important. I don't. I very much acknowledge that the PS3 was a very novel piece o

>You seem to entirely discount the fact that sometimes the journey is just as important. I don't. I very much acknowledge that the PS3 was a very novel piece of hardware, but the same doesn't apply to consoles in general. >And who's to say people experimenting with the PS5 won't be creating something new we'll be talking about in 10 years? These are powerful machines, why artificially restrict what they can do? They might, no doubt. But there's nothing novel about developing on a PS5, at least the original Xbox offered a unique form factor in its price bracket. >Homebrew alone gives people ways to play with hardware they wouldn't normally be able to experiment with. Yes, but PS5 hardware is just regular PC hardware. It's not exotic and exciting like the PS3 or Xbox were. >~5k active participants in the Insignia community is more than a handful. Sure, it's not hundreds of thousands but it's not exactly public yet either. And there are thousands in similar communities for the PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii to name a few. Either way, these communities directly demonstrate that jailbreaking hardware does indeed extend a console's lifetime. These are communities consisting of some thousands of people, but we're talking about hardware that sells 100+ million units.