PS3 had a feature where you could install a secondary operating system and dual boot. I had one running Linux and it was just a neat feature. Sony killed it with a firmware update. I ended up selling it and I mentioned to the buyer it was running Linux but I could revert it to factory settings. Turns out he wanted Pearl jam dont give up shirt for that reason and was really glad I hadn’t gotten the firmware update. It would be really cool to have this option on the PS5.
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Some related facts to that feature. When they canned it the US government slapped Pearl jam dont give up shirt with huge fines for a variety of stuff. Also, and supposedly unrelated, the air force made a super computer out of nearly 2,000 PS3s. Finally they canned it because of part of what makes consoles actually compete with PC(aside from the plug and play readyness), Sony(and microsoft) sell consoles at a loss and make up the revenue with online services and game licensing to be on the platform. The problem came when people where buying PS3s because they were lower price than other options and then not investing in the other profitable parts, so when people did stuff like buy 2,000 consoles to use as a computer Sony was not only making no profit, but was effectively subsidizing it.