[Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?

[Noah Evans]

The ps3 is a game machine. The original fat ps3 was sold at a loss,
which was supposed to be made up for by game sales. This means that
every fat ps3 bought exclusively for OS hacking cost sony >$100.
Considering these logistical issues, Sony was doing us a big favor by
exposing the system for OS development; the least you could do would
be to show a little appreciation.

Noah

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:05 AM, <thegame4121982 at msn.com> wrote:
> I hope SCE's new slim ps3s do very badly in sales. I am very happy that I
> was able to buy a ps3 when I did because if I didn't get the chance to buy a
> ps3 I would not buy one now. Even though this only affects the new slim
> ps3s,  I am still very dissapointed by this decision.  Since SCE decided to
> go this route, I feel that they really need to overhaul the xmb web browser
> as well as add support for streamming videos for other formats beides flash.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "François Galea" <francois.galea at prism.uvsq.fr>
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:43 AM
> To: "Geoff Levand" <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com>
> Cc: <cbe-oss-dev at lists.ozlabs.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?
>
>> Hi Geoff,
>>
>> Geoff Levand a écrit :
>>>
>>> The feature of "Install Other OS" was removed from the new
>>> "Slim" PS3 model to focus on delivering games and other
>>> entertainment content. Please be assured that SCE is committed to
>>> continue
>>> the support for previously sold models that have the
>>> "Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will
>>> not be disabled in future firmware releases.
>>
>> Thank you for this clarification.
>>
>> I would just like to express my disappointment about this choice from SCE.
>> It is really bad news for the CBE open source community, because the new ps3
>> customers will not have access to what some oss developers have made, in the
>> idea to let the others profit from their work. I never imaginated SCE would
>> take such an arbitrary decision.
>>
>> Cell B.E. programming is now officially reserved to a restricted
>> community, which is not good news for the architecture in general. I guess
>> most QSx Cell blade purchasers have made early testings on ps3's. I doubt,
>> as this has now become impossible, that selling Cell blades will be as easy
>> as it was. The future will tell us.
>>
>> François
>>
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