Finland: consumer board says Sony should pay dude €100 for OtherOS removal

[Capulous]

kitler53 said:

Capulous said:

I agree, claiming Sony has more respect for customers than MS or Nintendo has no merit.  MS and Nintendo did not  list another OS as a selling point for their system. Sony did. They also offered free online play as well, it was not either or, it was for both.

Since the PS3 was hacked and has been hacked before and after the removal of Linux; it seems like removing it changed nothing. Having additional features that is paid for (they were not "gifts") does not mean a company has more respect for consumers. These items were all part of the advertised package for PS3. If someone purchased a PS3 for these featueres, and when these features were advertised as part of the system, then they have every right to file a grievance.

could you send me a link to where Sony's marketing listed other OS as a selling point?  i check my box and it wasn't a listed feature, i've never seen it marketed.  frankly, if it wasn't for these forums i'd probably have no idea the feature ever existed.  but if i'm wrong and sony marketed this feature i'd love to know i'm wrong.

I don't have my box anymore, but you can probably find something on it if you do a web search. This feature was marketed or these lawsuits would have been baseless and would have been argued so by Sony . Universities and the US Airforce (2k ) purchased the PS3 mainly so they can use this feature to form a cheap supercomputer.  The Sony website may have something if they still have the product page for the older PS3 models.