Don’t buy Sony…
…because they will and do fuck you royally up the ass…
Sony removed the OtherOS option from the latest PS3 firmware (3.21). ‘For security reasons’ they claim, and that’s true. It was removed for THEIR security as the PS3 has been hacked by George Hotz in the beginning of this year.
If I don’t update I won’t be able to: 1) play the games I payed for from the Playstation Network store, 2) play new bluray movies that require firmware 3.21 or higher 3) play new games that require firmware 3.21 or higher.
I even can’t get my money back for either the PS3 or the pay-for-download games. If I do update I won’t be able to work with my PS3-Linux. So it’s one or another… I bought this piece of vendor-controlled locked in shit for the reasons of having a free online gaming community, and appealing to my geek side whereas I can install Linux on it. Now they force me to choose between one or another.
There is a word for this type of business, what was it again.. oh yeah.. BLACKMAIL. Well, fuck you Sony, you’ve just lost a paying customer.
This means that I won’t be upgrading to firmware 3.21, and I won’t be buying PS3 games or any Sony product for that matter until this issue is resolved. If you sympathize I suggest you do the same, hit them where it hurts; their revenue.
With this step Sony set a whole lot of bad blood in the ps-dev community, this will demonstrate to Sony to never piss off a community of passionate hackers.
My bold prediction: the PS3 will be fully ‘consumer’ hacked before the end of the year, enabling homebrew and pirated games. Just hold off that 3.21 update, a PS3 game jukebox is coming your way.
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