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derpysquirtle64 on 24 December 2016
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KBG29 said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

Maybe it is possible but it's not gonna happen anytime soon. PS4 needs cooling system for its chip. And selling TVs with cooling system is not a good idea. I agree that it will be a good idea to get rid of Android but maybe they should just port PS4 OS to ARM chips used in their TVs instead. Bundle TVs with dualshock and have PS Now app for gaming. That's something they can really do right now with current technologies. I'm really surprised that they haven't done this by now despite all the rumors at the beginning of this gen that Sony wants to go in a cloud gaming direction. But we all see that PS4 is a beast so maybe there is no need to push cloud gaming right now

Yeah, it would definitly not be possible to do until 2019 when the PS4 chipset goes to 7nm. Porting the PS4 OS to ARM would be interesting though. I always liked the idea of keeping the entire Sony line based around a single chipset to make development easier, but perhapps it would be good to have there OS on both X86 and ARM just to be flexable. 

At any rate, it is extreamly important for Sony to get all of their devices running on their own OS. Android is a good place holder, but you can't rely on someone elses OS forever. They already lost billions on Vaio riding the Windows train, and they have lost billions on Android. They have to set themselves apart, and make their products creat long term profit.

I don't think they lost something on Android because it is a free OS so they don't need to pay anything for it. That's why they use it in their TVs and smartphones I think.