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Which software was ahead of its time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Windows94@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna cheat a little one and mention the PSP GO (take it as an honorable mention because it uses software to work lol).

The damn thing was meant to be used with an online connection to get games, updates and DLCs but people failed to see the appeal to it (mostly because of the poor infrastructure we used to have) people decided that UMD was the better option and guess which of those thrived.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's downplaying how Sony tried forcing everyone to switch, once they'd already bought UMDs. They just could not stop themselves from fucking over their own customers. Buy a PSP! It needs Sony's special memory cards. No, extra-special ones, not the kind your Sony digital cameras use. Upgrade your PSP! Fuck you, buy new memory cards. Yeah it's the same shape, but it's special-er, you peasant. Upgrade your PSP again! And throw out all your games, because we didn't include a slot this time! It's all on the memory card, and of course you have to buy a new one, from us, specifically for this single gizmo, priced like it's made out of gold recovered from deep-water shipwrecks.

If they'd just launched with forced internet connectivity it might be a different story. God knows the OG PSP never spent long without getting leashed to a wall, so yet another game could forcibly install new firmware, once your battery reached exactly 100.0% charge.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

All of those changes were to prevent the absolutely rampant piracy.

Source: I was a rampant pirate who spread the word better than a Jehovah's Witness.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

The forced updates were definitely to prevent piracy... and didn't work.

The new kinds of Memory Stick were naked rampant greed.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Source: I was a rampant pirate who spread the word better than a Jehovah’s Witness.

LMAO, yeah, same for me, maybe that is why I never see the problem with the GO but the downgrade design/ergonomics.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But thrived though?

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I mean, we have the PS5 digital edition and the Steam Deck, I think the format became very popular.