Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For

Tom_bishop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that was the ps3

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was both I think lol, except that the ps2 one still works if you can find the gear for it (especially an old IDE HDD, and the original HDD+network adapter for the phat PS2)

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t blame them as much for that one. It’s a bad look, but the PS3’s architecture was such that they could be used to make a cheap supercomputer and they were being sold at a fairly significant loss.

    The cheapest way to build a supercomputer was to have a bot farm buying a bunch of PS3s, and don’t wouldn’t be able to recoup the losses through software sales.

    They should have just sold the ability to unlock OtherOS for “X” dollars to offset the loss.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but then you get into the “so, do I actually OWN my own hardware, or don’t I?” debate

      Also, the fact that they disabled it AFTER it being a selling point they advertised, for people who ALREADY bought them, without a way to revert

      Anyway… Yeah, I don’t take that as an adequate excuse. You sell the hardware, you no longer own it, so stop breaking it or forcing people to use it a certain way.

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I get what you’re saying, but I can also totally see Sony’s POV that they were losing money on every unit sold. It was becoming popular enough for distributed processing/supercomputing they had to either stop supporting the Other OS feature or raise the price when they were already by far the most expensive console and way behind the much cheaper competition in sales.

        They could hurt the minority of users who were costing them money by removing OtherOS, or they could hurt everyone by increasing the price of the console by a couple hundred bucks. Between the two options they absolutely made the better decision from a business standpoint, and it was also the better decision for 99.9% of the users.

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  • antizero99@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was.

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