PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      7 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)

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      7 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.

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 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.