Hi all,
> I believe it is a decision of economics, as Linux never _made_ money for
> Sony.
> The PS3 itself was rumored to have lost money in the first year or so, and
> who knows if it makes money now? It is games, and games alone that make money
> in this cut-throat game box market. So consider (from a purely economic point
> of view) that each PS3 sold to run Linux, especially the clusters, may never
> run a single game and therefore invoke 'break-even', at best.
In the cbe-oss-dev someone proposed that Sony could sell the other os installer
separately, with its cost being at least the money they are losing with each
console. Also it could be a DLC from the PSN store, therefore it would be
uniquely tied to that system. Don't you think this would sell more than most
PSN small games? I mean they are still paying the Linux team to support the
other model, would it cost that much? I don't know the price to break-even, but
if they break-even on the console with a couple of games, it can't be that high.
> Now, there appears to be good news, but the details are not yet known:
> http://www.develop-online.net/news/32378/Sony-unveils-academic-PS3-dev-kit
>
> "Sony unveils academic PS3 dev kit"
Is it at least known if it will support regular distros? I think when this
representative said universities can always use Linux, she meant as in the
alternative they had *then* (and in the future with current models after all).
This was a month and a half ago, the ps3 slim wasn't announced at the time, and
neither was fw 3.0.
Regards,
Nelson
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