Sony's Removal of "Other OS" May Be Against EU Law

[vlad321]

averyblund said:

vlad321 said:
So it's official then? Not just that rumor feeling thing?

I hope they get slammed thoroughly, they really deserve it. You can't just remove features after people pay for them.

Yes it is official.

 

The irony I see too is that certain (not all) SOny fans seem to be cheering this despite 2 very important facts:

1. This kills the PS3 is a computer/supercomputer movement. Now it's a great game system and media player only. It doesn't do everything (that it could).

2. The PS3 was the seed for Cell developers. IBM cell boards cost upwards of $5,000 (US) which are now required just to learn how to program the cell for general use (non-gaming). Killing the market of Cell experienced developers is insanely retarded especially if there is to be a successor.

 

From what I can tell there is zero upside from this decision for Sony, the researchers who depend of them, or anybody else. Lose-lose-lose. Of course anybody who dealt with Linux development on the PS2 back in 2002 would have seen this coming from a mile away. It was a tax-dodging effort to get the PS2/PS3 classified as a general use computer to evade taxes.

/facepalm

Really... SONY has been fucking up the whole generation, and just when they start to pull their heads out of their asses it seems they decide that their are uncomfortabel there and decide to stick it right back up in there.

The PS3 was never, ever, EVER, able to do everything. It has always been a half-assed PC, what can actually do everything, and that's all it is, now a piece that gave it a ton of its fuctionality is gone so now it's no better than a simple console with video playback.

I am also surprised IBM didn't try to stop them. Surely the fact people can't work with the cell without dropping thousands of dollars will hit IBM as well.