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theshrike79today at 6:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

Xbox Series S/X, PS5 and both Switches are pretty much commodity hardware.

Nobody has even hinted that it would be nice to have a 3rd party store or the ability to run whatever OS on them freely.

I keep wondering why.


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ebbitoday at 8:22 PM

Probably because it's very niche. Talking to many friends, and an increasing number of posts on various console subreddits, there's lots of comments from PC gamers that embraced the console life due to it's simplicity. This has increased since the PS5 Pro released - "Close to PC-level graphics, without the PC-level costs and mucking around with settings"

There is a certain appeal to this for many people that hacking it to run your own OS isn't really sought after.

izacustoday at 6:45 PM

I guess you weren't listening because all of them have healthy homebrew communities and people defeating the DRM.

I'm not sure if you're being dishonest or just ignorant of the console hacking scene.

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