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The Tech Fixes the PS3 Still Needs, Eight Years On

Posted by timothy on from the needs-a-cupholder-for-metamucil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The PlayStation 4 has well and truly arrived, but Sony's still selling its last-gen console by the pallet-load, eight years after first going on sale. Of course, as a new article points out, that's nothing compared to the PS2's astonishing 13 year manufacturing run. To help achieve that, the author outlines some tech fixes the PS3 could still do with, even after all this time, from tighter PS Vita integration, to yes, cross game chat. Can it make it past a decade, too?"

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  1. Re:Wet Dream by CronoCloud · · Score: 4, Informative

    So, you think wanting a feature that was in the product when you bought it and then taken away

    I own a CECHE model PS3 that at one time had a YDL install on it. I was even a moderator over at the Yellow Dog Forum. I have said the following many many times.

    The thing is, you have to agree to have the feature taken away, it won't be taken away without you agreeing to do so....twice.

    The choice is yours, keep Linux and lose access to PSN because your PSN isn't "trusted" or keep access to PSN and lose Linux. Your choice.

    Now perhaps Sony shouldn't have required you to make that choice, but they believed that Geohot gave THEM no choice and the final choice is yours.