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So are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.

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SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Ooooh, okay, now I understand. I was referring to the way modern consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.

But yeah, the PS3 removed the ability to boot Linux which it was explicitly advertised to have and it was a huge thing at the time.

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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.
  
  Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
  
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  - SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s an anti-piracy/homebrew feature. Realistically, nobody is using that for cheating.
    
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  - Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Anticheat should be handled by the games, not the console (unless the games are produced by the console manufacturer)
    
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  - ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, this is done to ensure there’s no competition when selling games. Why do you think console games are pricier than PC ones? On PC we still have some competition.
    
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