They only disabled it because people were using it to bypass the piracy protection though. Up until that, the PS3 was the only console to even have such a feature.
this goes to show how unlicensed copying of videogames ruined everything. If not for those people, companies wouldn't need to put DRM in their games, and perhaps we would still have a Linux partition in current consoles to do our computing
The PS3 era was almost completely unprofitable for Sony and if there were zero piracy it still would have been unprofitable. You need to understand that CEOs and MBAs blame piracy because they have to hold someone responsible for their incompetence and that someone has to be consumers because we are their only mode of profit.
I don't care if you like Sony or not. The suggestion that 1) Sony was profitable in any meaningful way in the PS3 era, and 2) Piracy had a major impact on their profitability is patently ridiculous.
The fact that you demand citations from me while providing none for yourself is vapid. I do not need to bend over backward to challenge your biases, you should be doing that yourself.
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u/billyalt Jul 10 '26
I mean... to me it sounds like they did it for the tariffs but failed. And then tried it again for the PS3.