PS3 Custom Firmware 3.21OO Release Imminent

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Silver-Tiger said:

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

Honestly, who of you used the OtherOS feature? Nobody.

Wow, do you always ASSume this much?

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 mean like the way people always "have a choice" when they're being blackmailed? Seriously if you can't recognise this for bblackmail, then go back to the second grade because you clearly need to repeat reading and comprehension courses at that level.

 

You loose PSN connectivity, but I don't think the users of OtherOS are really gamers.

Wow I guess I'm just a figment of your own imagination then. I AM a gamer and I DO use Linux as well. In fact it was for the very reasin that I could do both that I bought a 60gig "phat" at the beginning of March.

 

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.

 

Again you ASSume. Some of us merely want it as a games console AND media PC all-in-one unit which the otherOS allowed Sony to be.

 

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

How does Sony's regretting a business decision make them above consumer laws?