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Guys, we need to rest about this whole OtherOS feature.

Honestly, who of you used the OtherOS feature? Nobody.
And even if there some people who used OO, nobody forces you to upgrade. You have to answer THREE times before the FW gets installed completely, so you can't make it by mistake. You loose PSN connectivity, but I don't think the users of OtherOS are really gamers. If you need Linux for your company as a cluster for example, chances are it won't be used gaming ar 99% I'd say.

Also, there's one argument that haven't been said before, I think. People whoa re buying sorely for Linux aren't doing Sony a favor, you know. The PS3 is sold at a loss. So if they buy PS3's Sony is going to loose a LOT of money, because they won't buy games, movies, controllers, etc.

If they remove OtherOS, sure, some minor sales of the PS3 are lost, but the people who are still buying PS3s (because they don't need Linux anyway) are buying games, movies and so on.

The PS3 is subsidized. And OtherOS clearly hindered that business model.



updated: 14.01.2012

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