Well, that’s me not getting a PS3…
After much umming and ahhing, I’ve decided against getting a PS3. For ever. There were a few things that have swayed me in that direction, but mainly, it’s Sony’s decision to remove the ‘Other OS’ option in their latest firmware.
Other things contributed, such as the fact that I’ll only be able to use it when Daddykins doesn’t want to watch the telly. Also, life is too short for gaming. I suppose I could say the same about blogging too! On that subject, I’m glad to see that Chad is still reading, though not commenting.
Seriously though… nah, not my scene anymore. I made the same mistake with my original xbox. It got hammered for a week or two, then became an ugly, very dark green paperweight, before being shoved in a cupboard for three years. It would have still been there if I hadn’t been given a load of games for free, and somehow I don’t think that’s going to happen with the PS3 any time soon.
Hopefully, this will answer the question I get asked occasionally… “When are you getting a PS3?”
I’m tempted to put something in its place, as in some type of media server, but I don’t know if/when that’s going to happen. I’d comment a bit more on this, but I’ve just finished a nightshift, and am considerably goosed.
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:35:04 am
you don’t know what your saying. if your not going to get a ps3 that then you clearly a retard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:48:30 am
Jesus Christ, where did that come from? They day I listen to an illiterate slack-jawed prick on what I should spend my money on, will be the day I call your mother up, put her on the next flight to Mercuryvapour Towers and pay her to floss her brown, rotten teeth with my pubes whilst getting her to fondle my balls with her tongue…
… wait, how much are PS3s again?
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:58:48 am
hahahahah……… good comeback
peaceeeeeeeeeeeee
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:21:01 am
Sol, I speak for all PS3 owners, when I say, you are cretin.
The PS3 slim never has the ‘other OS’ option, but it does make an excellent media server.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:13:21 am
I happen to know that Scrib’s already got several peaceeeeeeeeeeeees. There’s his server peaceeeeeeeeeeeee, his laptop peaceeeeeeeeeeeee, and his general usage peaceeeeeeeeeeeee to name but 3!
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:00:16 pm
As a PS3 owner, I second c64glen’s comment to Sol.
And yeah, the PS3 Slim never had the Other OS option; it’s the phat models that, er used to have it. I actually bought the PS3 with the intention of one day installing Linux on it, ideally when the versions of Linux for the PS3 started taking better advantage of the hardware, though it seems at present, I no longer have the option to do this. I’m rather annoyed at this fact as although I didn’t use the option, it was still one of the reasons I bought a PS3 in the first place. I was already rather annoyed at the lack of PS2 (backwards) compatibility at the point of it being bought, and even more so at the fact that the BC PS3s only had software BC, which was crap. I’d have paid extra for the hardware BC (provided it was reasonable of course).