Besides piracy shenanigans, would a video game console with a open source OS have any advantages compared to other consoles?
Besides piracy shenanigans...
Juan Parker
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William Ortiz
Well, yes
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Jace King
I would assume Indie titles would be more abundant compared to close sourced console OS's
And this
Charles Long
>shenanigans
Lunduke pls
Nolan White
go back to playing tux racer faggot
Leo Lee
Harder to profit off paid online plans and a lack of monopoly on game distribution/manufacturing pretty much means it will not happen.
Noah Phillips
ps2 ran freebsd, what exactly is your definition of an "open source os" ?
Caleb Foster
This
If someone made an indie sort of start up thing it might have some potential if the price was right... but it would probably be just some small form factor PC and at that point the price compared to a pc of similar specs would completely defeat the purpose
Samuel Morgan
There was Ouya, and it ultimately failed
Hudson Green
Use it as a computer.
Consoles became full blown cheap computers this generation. Some open source OS would allow them to be used as what they actually are on a hardware level.
To be fair it makes me a little bit sad. I remember the times where having both a PC and a console was worth it. Where there was an actual difference between both kinds of platforms.
Hudson Richardson
>indie
>price was right
David Baker
ATARI CONSOLES WILL RUN LINUX!
Ethan White
Groovy
Julian Bennett
Jive turkeys out
Parker Hughes
I shiggy diggy
Kevin Collins
eternal support
Oliver Price
Isn't Atari more known for their computers in the 80s than the 70s?
Tyler Brown
Pffffft. Does it look like anyone cares?
Eli Robinson
Yes, but I'm saying that Atari were more well known at the time for the ST or even their 8-bit line. Maybe since they started shitting out Flashback toys they are more known for old software with kids.
Tyler Thompson
We're all on Sup Forums secretly
Just admit it already
Wyatt Taylor
It wouldn't be a secret if we admit it.
Jonathan Lee
>Developers would be able to come up with their own debugging solution (as well as their choice any potential peripherals necessary to do so) rather than being forced to use whatever the manufacturer provides.
>Any peripheral (controller, headset, et al.) would have a better chance of working without bullshit.
>Emulators of such a console would pop up near instantly. (Advantage for consumers, not for producers.)
>Open Source OS
>Not Free Software OS
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Jacob Thompson
In what way does open source = game piracy. Youre retarded
Ps3 was an amazing compute pc back in the day.
Thats it, none of the others benefit or have benefitted.
On that note the ps4 runs bsd