• WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      11 months ago

      It made sense. There were also university CS departments doing the same thing. The Cell processor in the PS3 was pretty damn powerful for the price at the time.

      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        11 months ago

        and iirc, it had Linux support, so it was perfect because Sony was selling the hardware at a loss to sell more units and consequently sell more games.

        when people started buying ps3s to install Linux, Sony made a firmware update to block this.