Comment on PlayStation 5 Bounty for Alternate OS installation
DeLancre@piefed.social 1 week agoI recently bought BC250 (same hardware as in PS5) and unlocked 40CU (by default on this board only 20 available, on PS5 - 38CU) — it’s actually pretty good machine. Alto, idle power consumption quite high (power saving features doesn’t work). The fact that sony just gatekeeps this hardware is insane. And in a year or two, when they release ps6, this one will become a ewaste, even tho with 16gb of ram it still pretty capable machine.
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I just don’t understand the logic. I don’t pirate games, I buy them. Let me use the hardware to its fullest as an htpc, let me run steam on it, release your games on steam, give me options - if you do, the console wouldn’t be collecting dust and I’d probably buy things from you. But right now, I don’t buy anything from Sony anymore.
I’m not even sure I need it completely open, just give us the tools and means to build and put apps in it or something. It’s just too closed and that ruins the otherwise capable hardware.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Same logic as any control freak; anything less than 100% control isn’t good enough.
DeLancre@piefed.social 1 week ago
This. Actually one of the reasons why Valve didn’t sell GabeCube at loss or even at 0 markup, they prices it fairly well (compared to other prebuilds). Otherwise it would be an amazing deal - cheap and small prebuild desktop PC.
Same with PS5, if they allowed to install linux, people would start buying their consoles and *gasps in horror* - use device as they please, which means not buying games from their overpriced store. It actually already happened before with PS3, I recall article that some even used it for making a cluster essentially DIY’ing super computer. I doubt people would do the same with PS5 and realistically, they not even selling this console at loss, so they absolutely wouldn’t lost anything, but like, it’s Sony we are talking about.