Sony president talks to a Japanese newspaper about the PS3.
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Sony president talks to a Japanese newspaper about the PS3.
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"It has also been confirmed that Linux will be pre-installed on the PS3 hard drive to encourage homebrew development."
Funny- Sony, under the guise of protecting themselves against piracy, have crippled the PSP handheld by disabling any attempt to run homebrew by continuously requiring firmware upgrades just to play recent games. Ironically the PSP's frontend seemingly invites the launching of homebrew apps while the firmware wrecks that possibility.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the PS3 is marketed as having the ability to run homebrew code only to discover upon purchase that the ability has been crippled by Sony's excessive DRM. Come on guys, this is SONY we're talking about here. They want you to BUY software, not play freeware on your $600 machine!
Interesting point you make there....it does seem strange that despite the obvious hardware losses that they will occur, they seem happy for homebrew development. You would have thought, like you said, that they'd want to maximise software sales as much as possible.
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I'd buy a PSP almost right away if I could guarantee to run home-written software, and classic emulators without any undue messing about...
I think that can be said for most of us. Hopefully sony ill have learnt from the PSP firmwares debacle (not too likely, but hey we can hope).Originally Posted by DavidM
One thing that strikes me about the onboard linux, is it seems like a great way to void lots of warranties. Maybe the first console to ship with a recovery CD?
Anyone who's played with linux, will tell you it can and often does go wrong, especially if you dont know what you're doing. Well at least we dont need to worry about compatability and finding the right drivers.
Unless it can re-create its boot status via reset?
Hadn't thought of that, little hole you stick a pin in, I use the one on my router almost everytime I telnetOriginally Posted by DavidM
Would seem like the most sensible option.
The difference is that the PSP isn't running what will probably be a fairly locked down version of Linux, wth the PS3 you won't be hacking the XMB in order to be able to run code.
That's obviously not to say that it won't happen at some point though.
re: killing linux.. if it's a BD-ROM I guess there's nothing stopping them from having a ghost image type setup?
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