Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by phatfish on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:50PM (#23751977)

The PS3 ran Linux at the beginning. That went nowhere for Sony apart from a lawsuit when it got patched out and consoles getting racked for cheap compute at the beginning.

I don't remember the specifics apart from the GPU being inaccessible which just made it a PowerPC server. But i suspect that experience killed off the idea internally for quite a while.

Maybe it would be a last resort if the Playstation does lose out to game streaming (not that i think it will).

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by kalleboo on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:37AM (#23756050)

Sony also released Linux for the PS2 before that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

And there was an official home-brew kit for the PS1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by rusk on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:48PM (#23753666)

There is no such thing as a failed experiment. It sucks to be the guys who lost out when Sony decided they didn’t want to support their Linux base any more but at that stage they’d gotten what they want out of it. Sony has a history of engaging with the hobbiest community in a tight and controlled manner and their’s no reason to think they might not bring this on another notch in a later generation. Albeit in a tight and controlled fashion, but just open enough to get engagement, as is their way.

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