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Weren't X360 games just plain DVDs? You needed an accessory drive for the console to read HD DVDs
Oh, Microsoft. Of course you did! You needed accessories to play DVDs on the original Xbox too
Even though it was a DVD drive! You had to buy the infrared remote. Meanwhile on PS2 you could control movies with any remote.
Sony has been surprisingly decent about that kind of stuff since the PS3. I believe you could stick any regular hard drive into it, whereas you needed proprietary official Microsoft Xbox 360 hard drives which were naturally sold at a huge markup
Their controllers also take any regular USB cables and use Bluetooth so they connect to PCs effortlessly
Sony tried to market the PS3 as a multimedia entertainment hub - in hindsight it was an idea ahead of its time, since that's what basically all Smart TVs are now - but the $700 price tag made it unattainable during the critical first year of sales.
it also launched with "install other OS" as a feature, which they removed later via an update.
It was expensive, but I think people forget what a stupidly good blu-ray player the PS3 was.
I, like many people, bought it because it was the best way to watch movies - with the added bonus of games. It was at least £100 cheaper than any decent blu-ray player. It worked better and more reliably than any of the other ones on the market. It was the only one that could access things like online blu-ray features for years and it got basically every future blu-ray player feature not only as a patch instead of having to buy a new unit, but sometimes months or years ahead of other blu-ray player manufacturers.
The PS3 was actually uniquely suited to stuff like cryptography because of the processor (which also makes it hard to emulate games built for it exclusively I guess). The US army had a whole bunch of them networked as a cluster computer.
Yeah I've heard about that, for certain applications they were a super cheap super computer. That's why I wish the official other OS support had been maintained - after it got dropped, support for it stopped getting worked on by the Linux community, imagine the wacky things they would have been able to do with it if support had never been dropped.
The hacking community has kept it alive to some extent, but I have never tried PS3 Linux. I have worked with the IBM Cell CPU used in PS3 before while making a traffic light control system. I chose it at that time because the need for a large amount of parallel vector math. It is shockingly good at this for the time it was made, but only if the application does not benefit from cache as the 7 SPUs do not have more than simple L1 cache. The tasks must also be completely parallel and code must be written specifically to run on the SPU.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2022
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