News Playstation 3 to support OSX?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/08/05/OSX_PS3/

 

Why would Sony allow this? It seems pretty mental to me. If you can just install Tiger on an unmodded PS3 then you can use it as a very powerful, very cheap Mac, install normal OSX software and so on. I can envisage Sony selling quite a few of these (heavily subsidised) boxes to Mac-heads who will use it exclusively as a Mac and never buy enough PS3 games for Sony to recoup their loss-lead on the box.

It's even madder than if MS let you install XP/Vista on an unmodded Xbox - at least in that situation MS would profit from the sale of the OS. I don't get this at all, unless perhaps you'll need a special "PS3 Edition" of OSX from which Sony will get a cut?

 

if hell froze over and pigs were flying, and this was somehow true

i would actually buy a PS3 console. and let it be known that i would never own a console gaming system because i see them as a thing for children (yes yes i know in many cases this isnt true but its just a thing that i have about sitting in front of a tv with a little controler that makes me feel like a little kid). Id buy one because i have always wanted a mac to play with but the minis are horridly too expensive and underpowered for me. but i would buy one just for the mac purposes and mabey to play an odd game or two if they ever made something that interested me.

 

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Sony preload the PS3 with at least Linux in Europe. Sony could then class the PS3 as a computer system, they tried this with the PS2 in an attempt to get around import duty but they didn’t manage it.

Let's see if they manage it this time

 

The PowerPC Chip in the PS3 does not compare to those in MAC's, ditto for the XBox 360. They have been designed for a specific purpose, even moreso in the PS3 as it also has the Cells. Therefore it is unlikely that, under general duties, the PS3 would run OSX faster then even a mini.

When I read the specs on the Xbox 360 i nearly fainted. 3x 3Ghz PowerPC's for $300, how could Apple ever hope to sell another PowerMac! Then I read the details of the Chips and saw that they were a bespoke design for the specific purpose of the console not a general purpose CPU as in the G4/G5's.

 

nevertheless you can't deny it's a tempting proposition.

perhaps this is Sony's plan - make it clear that if you just want a desktop, you should get a mac mini (as it will be cheaper/similar price and faster than a PS3), thereby avoiding the problem of people buying the PS3 just for that purpose, but use it as a hook to shift even more boxes. It may swing people in favour of PS3 rather than xbox 360 if they can use it as a fully fledged desktop as well as a console.

 

TBH I really just want my games console to just read from the disk and load the game, like back in the days of cartridge-load consoles or even just PSX. But then again, I'm not the type that would want to hack it apart and use it as a computer.

 

It might be sony trying to compete with microsoft on the software/services level. Microsoft has XBOX live!, and a really advanced GUI to navigate through on the X360 where as, so far, I havnt heard anything about sonys offering. This might be their way of trying to compete in that area with microsoft. Its not practical, nor is it really integrated to what the consoles main purpose is. Hell, it doesnt even really make sense, but what of sonys marketing ploys ever really make sense....

"Here are a million rubber dugs falling into a tub! Its all scripted and pre-programmed algorythms! BEHOLD THE RAW PROCESSING POWER THAT SIMULATES EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHALL SEE IN A GAME".. *cough*.. yeah right!


Personally, with the way apple is so closed port toward anything non apple.. I cant see why they would do this. If they wont make OSX compatable wtih all X86 based computers (not just the ones designed for the Intel based apples) then why would they make an exception for sony? You might argue they are making more money by selling more OS.. but they would do the same with the X86 based computer compatability. They already made it clear that they would not let that one slide.

So, the only explanation to me is either a) this is complete rumor hyped by Ps3 fans / Apple fans.... or maybe apple is taking one for the team in an attempt to stick it to microsoft.

 

Sony have been saying all along that if you bought the add on Hd then you could load whatever OS you wanted on.

 

Id rather it be multifunctional tbh. My Xbox is a media centre and i tend to use it more than any console ive ever owned. Also i want to be able to run games off a harddisk cause a) i wont loose disks b) i wont scratch disks c) they load 10x faster d) my dvd drive doesnt die too soon.

 

No way are either MS or Sony going to allow their stock boxes to run games of the HDD without putting an original disk in, unless there's some kind of obligatory online registration situation. It's just too much of a piracy risk. They might allow games to run from the HDD with the original disk in the drive for validation, but tbh I doubt it. It comes too close to the hassle of installing games a la PC games, which would make it appear complicated. TBH if you want a console you want to just be able to sling the game in the drive, boot up and get stuck in.

 

I'd be willing to bet the HDD will be used for media centre functions, save games, patches and downloaded additional content, which seems to be their new big idea for spinning money.

 

I hope this is true! Here's my simply equation:

Apple Fanboy + Playstation Fanboy = Me
OS X + PS3 = Me Happy

 

So now parents will buy P3, for kids but never let them play... Oh go away play with your ps2, can't you see I'm working... HA HA HA Why is this called a console... Call it Computer with simplified usability and interface...

 

and get around import duties

 

Sorry, i wasnt referring to doing it without modchipping. I couldnt give two ticks what they want me to do with it, but im absolutely sure people will modchip it so as i can run linux etc and allow me to use the hardware to it's full potential, just like my xbox.

 

LOL. maybe the parents was playing the ps3. LOL.

 

I guess all of you are blind to Sony's attempts to draw attention away from the Xbox launch. None of this is going to happen, just like their games won't look like the "target videos" at e3. Sony is all smoke and mirrors and 30% of what they say will happen comes true. GT4 was supposed to use the HD and have online play, didn't happen. Do you really think the numbers they gave for the machine were truthful either, all they did is times the numbers that microsoft gave out by 2, while they didn't even have dev kits out at the time. Even if the slim slim chance of this happening occurs, all it will do is up the price of the system 50-100 dollars, plus probably cause serious problems when switching between gameplay and the os, or cause a decrease in the performance.

 

Who cares as long as it plays games?!