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minus-squareSolSerkonos@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoOoooh, okay, now I understand. I was referring to the way modern consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches. But yeah, the PS3 removed the ability to boot Linux which it was explicitly advertised to have and it was a huge thing at the time.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·2 months ago consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches. Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAnticheat should be handled by the games, not the console (unless the games are produced by the console manufacturer)
minus-squareThirdConsul@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, this is done to ensure there’s no competition when selling games. Why do you think console games are pricier than PC ones? On PC we still have some competition.
minus-squareSolSerkonos@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoIt’s an anti-piracy/homebrew feature. Realistically, nobody is using that for cheating.
Ooooh, okay, now I understand. I was referring to the way modern consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.
But yeah, the PS3 removed the ability to boot Linux which it was explicitly advertised to have and it was a huge thing at the time.
Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
Anticheat should be handled by the games, not the console (unless the games are produced by the console manufacturer)
No, this is done to ensure there’s no competition when selling games. Why do you think console games are pricier than PC ones? On PC we still have some competition.
It’s an anti-piracy/homebrew feature. Realistically, nobody is using that for cheating.