I find it interesting how mad people are about this.
Installing Linux was an option that very few people used. I tried it and found it incredibly slow. Sony did not put any resources into optimizing the experience and it showed.
If you are willing to lose online functionality for PS3 Linux, you probably didn't want a PS3 in the first place.
Do we really want another PSP debacle on our hands? Looking at the quality and amount of games for PS3 vs. PSP, its pretty obvious what piracy did to the PSP. Not only that, but the cat and mouse firmware game was a big waste of time for everyone.
Am I bummed that yet another feature is retracted from the PS3? Yes. But its not that big a deal. And considering I got my PS3 to play games, I don't really want piracy to get out of control. It has effected the amount of games on the PSP especially from third parties.
@AndyL Totally agreed. I blame Geohot for this mess. No one with a working common sense would not foresee Sony not fixing their security issue with OtherOs. I mean really, did Geohot really think Sony was going to congratulate him and let some other hacker make it easy to install like the PSP? Geohot releasing the exploit is the cause, Sony locking the OtherOs is the effect.
Do people really expect Sony to sit around and let the PS3 end up like the PSP? Like many things in life, it only takes one idiot to abuse something, and everyone will be force to pay the price.
Geohot exploit ≠ running pirated games. That wasn't even the goal. I'd bet you'd be mad if sony just decided one day to take away your favorite feature. This sets a terrible precedent for future updates. What's going to happen next, somebody is going to find an exploit in little big world, and sony is going to update to 3.22 and unless you update you cant play your own game? What if somebody finds an exploit in the blu ray player, should they disable blu ray movie playback?
They should not be removing features I payed for period. Not only is it illegal (consumer protection laws triumph EULAs), it's terriable business. I now refuse to buy another sony product again until they fix this debacle.
If piracy was the goal of the hack, which it is not, it would not have the massive impact on game sales and development that you say it would. The Wii and the Xbox 360 have a very large number of pirated games according to statistics, yet these platforms are still solid in sales. One could argue that it's the accessibility of the PSP custom firmware that caused sales and game development to fall not that just the fact it was hacked, and this seems like the case with the above platforms. The way the PS3 exploit is developing seems to show that it will be a hard process for one to successfully hack it.
The fact is no matter the circumstances, Sony shouldn't be able to take away a feature, regardless of how many customers use it and you should be disputing this as it's your rights they are taking away.
Who ever used the Linux option on PS3? Huge geeks. Who reads and comments on Engadget? Huge geeks.
Although, I'm a huge geek and I don't really care.
But you know what, Sony can make it up to us by giving us full backwards compatibility (and I'm talking about running in native HD resolutions and AA). Then we can call it even.
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I find it interesting how mad people are about this.
Installing Linux was an option that very few people used. I tried it and found it incredibly slow. Sony did not put any resources into optimizing the experience and it showed.
If you are willing to lose online functionality for PS3 Linux, you probably didn't want a PS3 in the first place.
Do we really want another PSP debacle on our hands? Looking at the quality and amount of games for PS3 vs. PSP, its pretty obvious what piracy did to the PSP. Not only that, but the cat and mouse firmware game was a big waste of time for everyone.
Am I bummed that yet another feature is retracted from the PS3? Yes. But its not that big a deal. And considering I got my PS3 to play games, I don't really want piracy to get out of control. It has effected the amount of games on the PSP especially from third parties.
@AndyL
Agreed.
I installed it and realized that I couldn't do anything practical...especially since I had a laptop that was 4x's the RAM, hard drive space, etc...
I quickly realized that I was wasting space on my PS3 having it there and thus, I removed it.
@AndyL
OtherOS != piracy. Think for yourself instead of hanging on Sony's every word.
@AndyL Totally agreed. I blame Geohot for this mess. No one with a working common sense would not foresee Sony not fixing their security issue with OtherOs. I mean really, did Geohot really think Sony was going to congratulate him and let some other hacker make it easy to install like the PSP? Geohot releasing the exploit is the cause, Sony locking the OtherOs is the effect.
Do people really expect Sony to sit around and let the PS3 end up like the PSP? Like many things in life, it only takes one idiot to abuse something, and everyone will be force to pay the price.
@AndyL
Geohot exploit ≠ running pirated games. That wasn't even the goal. I'd bet you'd be mad if sony just decided one day to take away your favorite feature. This sets a terrible precedent for future updates. What's going to happen next, somebody is going to find an exploit in little big world, and sony is going to update to 3.22 and unless you update you cant play your own game? What if somebody finds an exploit in the blu ray player, should they disable blu ray movie playback?
They should not be removing features I payed for period. Not only is it illegal (consumer protection laws triumph EULAs), it's terriable business. I now refuse to buy another sony product again until they fix this debacle.
@AndyL
If piracy was the goal of the hack, which it is not, it would not have the massive impact on game sales and development that you say it would. The Wii and the Xbox 360 have a very large number of pirated games according to statistics, yet these platforms are still solid in sales. One could argue that it's the accessibility of the PSP custom firmware that caused sales and game development to fall not that just the fact it was hacked, and this seems like the case with the above platforms. The way the PS3 exploit is developing seems to show that it will be a hard process for one to successfully hack it.
The fact is no matter the circumstances, Sony shouldn't be able to take away a feature, regardless of how many customers use it and you should be disputing this as it's your rights they are taking away.
@AndyL
I think I can sum it up like this:
Who ever used the Linux option on PS3? Huge geeks.
Who reads and comments on Engadget? Huge geeks.
Although, I'm a huge geek and I don't really care.
But you know what, Sony can make it up to us by giving us full backwards compatibility (and I'm talking about running in native HD resolutions and AA). Then we can call it even.