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> We aren’t sure if this will bring again the “Other OS” functions to Playstation 4 It will at least have to be possible to install other systems. The screensh
by elwin 13y ago
> We aren’t sure if this will bring again the “Other OS” functions to Playstation 4
It will at least have to be possible to install other systems. The screenshots show GRUB 2, which is under the GPLv3, so it should be unlockable.
- lotyrin 13y agoAssuming it survives into the final commercial product.
- zanny 13y agoWorst case scenario, someone will rip out the rom chip and reverse engineer whatever kind of efi or acpi firmware they are using and solder their own in. People get mad crazy with video game consoles like that.
- gsnedders 13y agoThe devkit will be unlockable — but that's not interesting. What bootloader the devkit runs has no relation to what the final console will (and I expect that will be locked down, even if it allows other OSes).
- runeks 13y agoIsn't the point that it has to be locked down? I get the impression that one of the merits of a gaming system is how well it protects unauthorized copying of game titles (seen from the game developers' point of view).
- speeder 13y agoActually, the point was to prevent unauthorized self-publishing... This is what doomed the market in 1983, people made so much shovelware and shipped to actual stores, that when someone arrived on a store and grabbed a random title, it was 99% of chance of it being utter crap, thus people stopped going to stores. Nintendo that came up with the idea to just outright make hard as possible for people to self-publish games, going to the extent of even limiting large publishers amount of allowed games per year. Thanks to indie renaissance this is being relaxed now, but not too much... Companies are still scared by the prospect of repeating 1983 or repeating iTunes (that has thousands of shovelware games and discoverability outright suck)