Warp Zoned writes:
"As the PlayStation Network is set to recover from the worst outage in the history of the service, there’s been a lot of talk about the feature this whole debacle started over. In the early days, one of the distinctive features Sony touted of the PlayStation 3 was its Other OS option, the ability to install operating systems such as Linux on your system. With the advent of the PS3 Slim, Sony removed this functionality, setting off a terrible chain reaction. First, the homebrew community managed to bring it back, which almost immediately opened the floodgates for hackers to destroy public matches on the PlayStation Network. Thereafter, Sony pursued litigation against modders looking to jailbreak PS3s, which led hacking groups like Anonymous to launch even more attacks on the PSN. It’s a complicated debate with valid points on both sides, but there’s no end in sight for gamers who have been written off as “collateral damage” by Anonymous. Given how few people actually ran Linux on PS3, it seems most don’t know what the feature they’re arguing about actually did. This installment of the G-Spot chronicles this ultimate irony: that one of the most lamentedly lost features on the PlayStation 3 wasn’t even worth keeping around to begin with."
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Omg that was a great read. Basically Linux on the ps3 was horrible. If all of that is true, it really useless. So now I'm starting to think that people complaining about other os are either trolls or you don't have a working PC because Im really not seeing any other reason why you would be using this. If you disagree with me, then please list your reasons why because me and most of the people on N4G really would like to know.
I'm a 60GB EU owner and bravo, I don't miss other OS at all. All this is just a huge fight over not letting piracy happen.
"Sony removed this functionality"
you cannot remove it if it never came pre-installed in the first place.
The end user Had to install Linux, the fact that Linux never came from Sony pre-installed should be people's first clue How can they take away something that never came pre-installed in the first place?
OH you mean the function inside the XMB?
which who owns the right's to the XMB on your PS3..you or Sony?
For that matter who owns the right's to the Copy of windows OS on your PC?
yea ...bingo there you go.
Sony did not out right strip out Linux from People's PS3...because Sony removed it out of the XMB that Sony own's the rights to. Before the slim came out on the Market, Sony removed "install other OS" out of the XMB. thus it never had it in the first place.
an thus Hotz an Other hackers complained about that?
as for the Playstation 3 phat. Once again Sony did not sell you a system with Linux pre-installed.
they had an update that removed not linux.
It removed "intall other os out of the XMB"
who own's the right's to Other OS FUNCTIONALITY BUTTON IN THE XMB..or for that matter WHO OWNS THE RIGHTS TO THE XMB?
people can claim you own the PS3 WHILE That is Quite true for the Hardware but not the Operating system on the Machines, that is How it is..you get a Licence to use it.
Hackers just chose to ignore the rule but it does not matter Sony never supported Open Source OS's anyway
right?
Just because it wasn't useful to the author doesn't mean others saw it the same way. a lot of people found it useful for research and other areas where having a supercomputer would be useful/important.
And of course it was worth something, if it wasn't Sony wouldn't have gotten itself in this mess in the first place.
The fact that people were pissed off by having other OS taken from them proves its worth.
Has any other console ever lost features over time?