Xen said:
No, I am against it because it's nothing that was ever of popular demand in even older consoles... do you know what the average person looking for in a console wants? *cough* backups. When the PS2 was hacked with all the various modchips, the latter were quickly cloned, and while not even working 100%, they all booted backups just fine. The matrix infinity, O2, DMS4 Pro, Crystal Chip, and all others vanished and died rapidly after the clones were offered. Do you know what functions they offered? Forcing video modes, fixing the screen in PS1 imports, and - lo - booting homebrew from various media! Most of the clones couldn't do ANY of those - mars, early mid modbos, Apple, Duo, etc... guess which killed which? The $10-20 cheaper clones massacred their sources even without having most of their sources' features fully working - modbos were adapted after the infinity team went away, probably catering to the miniscule crowd that needs more than just pirated games. Those are facts, you can check PSX-scene for those massive "clone wars" (no pun, darth if you're even looking) The ones that build supercomputers get their PS3's specially modified. The famous USAF didn't get affected in any way. Why would the 10 consumers that need HOME supercomputers buy 10 PS3's to create such even be a factor in this argument? Ah, and why would you be moving your PC away from there all this time? If you're a constant user, wouldn't you instead keep it there? Besides, did you do modding? In most cases, it's far tougher than putting your cable inside your TV. The PS3 was a console that never needed a hack, end of. All of the things you suggest, are either uneeded by the VAST MAJORITY that is/was satisfied by Sony's services (until people started fucking with games) or are already done better on other devices. |
Er... try telling that to the USAF.
We checked in with the Air Force Research Laboratory, which noted its disappointment with the Sony decision. "We will have to continue to use the systems we already have in hand," the lab told Ars, but "this will make it difficult to replace systems that break or fail. The refurbished PS3s also have the problem that when they come back from Sony, they have the firmware (gameOS) and it will not allow Other OS, which seems wrong. We are aware of class-action lawsuits against Sony for taking away this option on systems that use to have it."
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linux-hurts-the-air-force.ars
With this hack, the USAF can in fact now replace said computers. So can the different universities that use PS3 in this way including (same link)
A similar issue will confront academic PS3 clusters, which have sprung up in labs across the country. In 2007, a North Carolina State professor built himself a small cluster that he cobbled together after "he spent a few hours one day in early January driving from store to store to purchase the eight machines."
The University of Massachusetts has 16 machines networked into a cluster called the "Gravity Grid," used to look at gravitational waves and black holes. According to the physicists at UMass, the PS3's "incredibly low cost make[s] it very attractive as a scientific computing node, i.e., part of a compute cluster. In fact, it's highly plausible that the raw computing power-per-dollar that the PS3 offers is significantly higher than anything else on the market today."
So no, the supercomputers were off the shelf PS3s.
Again, you've ignored the fact that modding could be tougher ONCE but provides the benefit of not needing to replace anything. Doing something complicated once is a lot more convient then doing something two or three times a week for the next 10 years of your life.
Also the VAST MAJORITY of people were happy with ANY unhacked console. You just didn't used to be a part of that group!
